Clay Audino: Building First, Telling Later

In Italy, the phrase “Made in Italy” is often synonymous with quality, craftsmanship and tradition. Less frequently, however, do we acknowledge that today a growing part of this excellence stems from another crucial factor: the ability to integrate innovation and technology into real industrial processes. (more…)

Ruffino’s Golden Alchemy

Ruffino, the historic Tuscan winery founded at Pontassieve in the distant year of 1877, returns to the Milan Design Week 2026 with the third edition of ORObyRUFFINO, housed within Manzoni HUB – a new Milanese space entirely dedicated to Made in Italy interior design – where the estate inserts itself both into the exhibition itinerary and as the wine partner for events hosted throughout the week. (more…)

Ferrari sets sail: Hypersail livery unveiled at MDW

There is a moment, just before a race car breaches the apex, when form and function achieve perfect symbiosis; Ferrari has now sought that same breathless instant upon the open sea. During the Milan Design Week, the House of the Prancing Horse has unveiled the livery of Ferrari Hypersail, a 100-foot oceanic flying monohull that redefines the very grammar of offshore navigation through a rare fusion of innovation, aerodynamics, and design research. (more…)

TBD Eyewear Unveils the Oak Special Edition

TBD Eyewear celebrates the sophistication of artisan design with an evolution of its iconic Oak model, presenting the Oak Special Edition. This new variant is distinguished by its temples that reveal an internal metal core with a silver finish, a technical detail transformed into an aesthetic feature, and by the adoption of lenses made from Barberini mineral glass, synonymous with optical excellence and longevity. (more…)

Stile Hermitage: the Art of Wood

From Umbria, the heart of a deeply rooted artisan knowledge, Stile – a benchmark company in the quality parquet sector – presents the Hermitage collection, a line of flooring that transforms wood into a canvas for complex works of art. The passion for manual work and an authentic love for the material merge with cutting-edge technologies, such as laser systems capable of carving any wood species with extreme precision, with thicknesses from 5 to 22 millimeters. (more…)

Salone del Mobile Conquers Riyadh: Italian Design Lights Up the Desert

For three days ending yesterday, the gleaming glass-and-steel canyon of the King Abdullah Financial District became an unlikely outpost of Milan when the Salone del Mobile.Milano staged its first official foray into Saudi Arabia with Red in Progress, a carefully orchestrated three-day preview of a broader partnership with the kingdom’s Architecture & Design Commission that transformed the public realm with a large-scale red installation by Giò Forma, packed cultural programming curated by Annalisa Rosso, and, most crucially, a tightly focused B2B platform that brought Italian manufacturers face-to-face with the fast-evolving Saudi design ecosystem now supercharged by Vision 2030. (more…)

Design and Sweetness: Kartell’s La Coupole Frames the Marchesi 1824 Panettone

The love for beauty and the passion for goodness merge in Kartell x Marchesi 1824, an exclusive collaboration uniting two pillars of Italian excellence. Kartell, an interpreter of an aesthetic suspended between innovation and lifestyle, meets Marchesi 1824, a symbol of Milanese high-end pastry and a tradition that for two centuries has transformed sweetness into art. (more…)