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Our Top Picks from Milan Design Week 2026
01 - Marni -“Cucù”
Marni’s “Cucù” collection brings together a series of tableware and domestic objects defined by bold colour, graphic pattern, and layered composition. The collection includes cups, plates, jugs, and serving pieces, each characterised by repeating motifs such as stripes and polka dots, applied across different forms and scales.Arranged in stacked configurations, the pieces emphasise repetition and variation, creating a sense of rhythm across the collection. While rooted in functional objects, the presentation highlights how everyday items can be reworked through colour and composition, forming a cohesive visual language across the range.
02 - Lina Ghotmeh – “Metamorphosis in Motion”
Lina Ghotmeh’s Metamorphosis in Motion feels less like an installation and more like a spatial intervention. Set within the courtyard of Palazzo Litta, it reworks the environment into something softer and more fluid, encouraging movement, pause, and interaction rather than observation.What makes it particularly interesting is its restraint. In a week often defined by scale and spectacle, it shifts the focus towards atmosphere and experience. It invites people to move through it, rather than simply look at it, positioning architecture as something to inhabit, not just consume.
03 - Issey Miyake“The Paper Log: Shell and Core”
Issey Miyake’s installation explores the potential of material often overlooked. Developed using paper waste generated through the brand’s manufacturing process, the pieces are formed through compression and layering, transforming discarded by-products into sculptural objects.Created in collaboration with an architectural practice, the works sit somewhere between furniture and artefact, defined by their density, texture, and subtle variations in tone. The stratified edges reveal the process itself, with each layer of paper remaining visible, creating a topography that reflects both production and reuse.
04 - Gayane Umerova“When Apricots Blossom”
When Apricots Blossom unfolds across the facade as a textile intervention, temporarily softening the rigidity of the building’s architecture. Suspended panels of woven colour and hand-crafted tassels cascade downwards, introducing movement, texture, and a sense of rhythm to an otherwise static surface.Developed as a site-specific installation, the work draws on traditional craft techniques, particularly embroidery and weaving, reinterpreted at an architectural scale. The repetition of pattern and the density of detail create a layered composition that shifts subtly with light and air, allowing the piece to feel alive within its setting.
05 - SECOLO + TABLEAU “Soft Matters”
This installation brings together a series of hand-drawn floral motifs applied across both surface and object. Loose, almost instinctive linework repeats throughout, appearing on walls, ceramics, and sculptural forms, creating a continuous visual language that moves between backdrop and artefact. The drawings themselves feel intentionally unrefined, closer to sketch than ornament, giving the work a sense of accessibility. Set against a backdrop of raw, fragmented materials, the installation contrasts softness with structure, delicate line against rigid form, while suggesting a process that remains open-ended. Rather than presenting a finished collection, it reads as a moment within making, where repetition, variation, and gesture take precedence over resolution.
06 - Zaccaria Slater“A Bunch of Knobs”
Presented as a series, the work explores the door handle not as a purely functional element, but as a point of contact. Something handled daily, yet rarely considered.Each piece shifts subtly in form, material, and proportion, creating a study in nuance rather than statement. Seen together, the collection reads almost like a catalogue of gestures: rounded, elongated, weighted, where small changes in shape begin to suggest different ways of being held, turned, or approached.Slater draws attention to the relationship between body and design. The work sits somewhere between utility and sculpture, asking how something so commonplace might carry its own quiet sense of character when given space to be observed.
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