Milan Design Week 2023
Colour Trendspotting
The Dulux colour team is in Italy as part of their year-round research into the latest global and local trends that are predicted to influence New Zealand design and how we live.
Oh, how we’ve missed you Milano!
Milan Design Week Furniture Fair is the launchpad of design and innovation in the world, showcasing the latest in colour and design trends that will influence the built environment in the continued design cycle.
Day Six
Louis Vuitton, La Manufacture, Elle Décor, Moooi, Campo Base, Acerbis, Archiproducts
Today was the final day for the Dulux Colour Team to be immersed in all things colour and design in Milan! Here are a few of our highlights.
La Manufacture
La Manufacture featured its new collections in seven curated rooms in the stunning Casa Manzoni with each space united by a reference to nature and its elements.
Moooi
Dutch furniture, interior, and lighting design company Moooi provided a fully immersive experience with its installation – A Life Extraordinary. Here we explored the intersection of technology and humanity through innovative design. We experienced a bespoke room fragrance fuelled by artificial intelligence in each space.
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Elle Décor
Elle Décor’s installation ‘The Art of Light’ focused on the role of light in domestic spaces; how it illuminates our homes, emphasises the shapes of objects and furnishings, changes the way we see colour, and affects our mood.
Day Five
Salone Del Mobile (Milan Design Fair)
Today the Dulux Colour Team embarked upon Salone Del Mobile – the largest trade fair of its kind in the world. The exhibition showcases the latest in furniture and design from countries around the world. This year was the return of Euroluce, the event dedicated to lighting design, which was back after a four-year hiatus.
Salone Del Mobile features global furniture, design and lighting brands such as Molteni&C, Kartell, Baxter, Flexform, Miniforms, Arper, Sancal, Edra, Arflex, Glas Italia, Magis, Gessi, to name a few!
Kartell installation
One of our favourites was the colourful Kartell installation – a beautiful engaging experience where the coloured walls were woven from yellow greens right through to warm pink-browns.
Molteni&C goes neutral
In contrast to Kartell’s colourful stand, Molteni&C leading Italian designer furniture company, featured an array of elegant neutrals.
Day Four
Nilufar Gallery, Paola Lenti, Fferrone, Isola Design Gallery, Clay Court Club by Cristina Celestino, Spazia, Hermès, Marset, Dimore Gallery, Muuto, Missoni
Another huge day on the ground for the Dulux Colour Team at Milan Design Week. Day 4 was a mix of visits to design heavyweights such as Hermès, Missoni and Dimore, and creative newcomers like those featured at the Isola Design Gallery.
We loved the work of Nina Yashar, founder of Nilufar Gallery, who presented The Bright Side of Design a seamlessly blended dialogue between research on old masters and the discovery of contemporary creators.
Scandinavian design company, Muuto joined forces with H+O and Vzug to create a distinctive installation exploring the concept of the Butterfly Effect. Sharing a passion for colour, form and tactility – they investigate how this impacts our perception of a space.
Bright Side of Design at Nilufar Gallery
Nilufar Gallery took us on a journey that put the spotlight on all that design has to offer and continues to create. We fell in love with the restful and elegant spaces featuring beautiful colour combinations and exquisite design and art pieces.
Sharing a passion for colour, form and tactility
The Muuto, H+O and Vzug exhibition was described as “a physical manifestation of the profound effect seemingly small changes in our immediate environment can have on everyday life and our sense of wellbeing”.
Day Three
Gubi, Alcova, Gallery Philia, Shaped By Water by Google, Loewe, Cappellini, Cassina, Marimekko
Day three of the Milan Design Fair was an incredibly immersive experience of colour, pattern and texture.
Gubi
The public bathing pool set the scene for the Gubi installation Beyond the Beetle in which visitors wove their way around an array of stunning spaces featuring neutral and natural colourways with layered textures intermingled with stripes.
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A colour-lovers dream!
The Cassina showroom, Durini, was a feast of colour and interesting and unexpected colour combinations. Hot pinks were paired with chocolate brown and soft aqua, soft mid-blues were teamed with red, and rust that highlighted rich deep blues.
Day Two
cc-tapis, Cassina, COR, Ross Gardam, Artemest at 5 Vie
Colourful furniture and design inspiration were the hallmarks of day two for the Dulux Colour Team at the Milan Design Fair.
cc-tapis
The Dulux Colour Team started the day with a visit to cc-tapis, an Italian design company that produces contemporary handmade rugs for residential and contract spaces. The Guadalupe Collection by renowned designer Bethan Laura Wood, featured colourful rugs inspired by her archive of ‘public patterns’ collected during her extensive travels. Her designs inspired us with unique combinations of colours and patterns. We also loved seeing all the rich, warm colours including pinks, buttery golds and plums.
Cassina
No visit to Milan Design Week is complete without a visit to Cassina store, a pre-eminent design leader and manufacturer of original contemporary furniture. For its 50th anniversary of the Cassina iMaestri Collection, the company presented Echoes, 50 years of iMaestri, curated by art director Patricia Urquiola with Federica Sala in a modern and industrial setting inside a historical building in the Cordusio area of Milan.
Artemest
Artemest, the online destination for contemporary Italian craftsmanship and design, is a 1930s Milanese apartment curated by six prestigious international design firms. The unique location provided the perfect backdrop for interior designers to showcase their distinctive creative visions, with each studio designing its own room in the apartment. The dining space was captivating in a cream and soft yellow tan painted stripes by designer Nina Magon Studio.
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Cardrona is a soft and natural looking warm white that is loved by home renovators and interior designers alike. This versatile white will brighten any space and is perfect for exterior features.
COR furniture
Germany furniture brand COR presented its latest furniture collection in a beautiful apartment in the Brera district. We were inspired by the immersive display of colour used in each space to create an emotive atmosphere.
Day One
Rosanna Orlandi Gallery; Magenta District, Bocci; Zona Vincenzo Monti
It's day one and we’ve hit the ground running at Milan Design Week, which started with a bang on April 17. Today the Dulux Colour Team was given the chance to preview the iconic Rosanna Orlandi Gallery and Bocci installation.
Rosanna Orlandi is a destination for new artists and designers. She has the power to recognise exceptional talent and curate their work as a collective experience.
Bocci recently restored an early 20th-century Milanese apartment in an intimate residential setting showcasing incredible lighting with shapes and designs representing oceanic natural forms. The rich walnut timber featured in the furniture from the Irish brand Orior complimented the materials in the handblown glass.
Bocci apartment
The Bocci apartment featured beautiful lighting displays in organic shapes and forms. A navy blue sofa by e15 was highlighted by a warm white backdrop.
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Colour Waterfall
This crisp, bright white is the perfect backdrop for the Colour Waterfall installation, which picks up on the immersive colour concept of the Lighting Boxes by artist and composer Brian Eno with new objects by Draga & Aurel.
Teal trend
A beautiful room in deep teal green was designed by Francesco Meda for C Design. This stunning colour, taken part way up the wall, helps to add an architectural element and define the space.
Milan Design Week under the spotlight
Dulux Colour Forecast: now and then
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