#milan Stories

HOTEL
Italy’s Midcentury Maestros Are Felt All Throughout Casa Brivio

Matteo Thun strikes the ambience of a well-heeled European apartment throughout the centrally...

RESTAURANT
At Trattoria del Ciumbia, Dimore Studio Travels Back in Time

The Milanese masters envisioned the new eatery as a stylish ode to the Brera district’s culinary...

STORE
Vincent Van Duysen Nods to Salvatore at Ferragamo’s Milan Boutique

Striking slabs of red marble—the late founder’s favorite color—and other bursts of color...

RESTAURANT
Futurism and Flavor Await at Ichi Station Milan

An abundance of illuminated peach-toned glass accents courtesy of Masquespacio transports visitors...

RESTAURANT
Dimore Remakes a Grande Dame

The Italian duo lends their artistic touch to sprucing up Caruso Nuovo, the historic Grand Hotel et

DESIGN
The Milanese Scenes That Inspire Bernhardt & Vella

Lea Anouchinsky and Alberto Carlo Macchi photograph the Italian duo’s furnishings in some of the...

EVENTS
Salone del Mobile Debuts an All-In-One Digital Platform

The Milan furniture fair launches an all-encompassing digital experience that offers brand...

RETAIL
Fashion Label or Arts Patron? With COS, It Can Be Hard to Tell

In its first dozen years, the brand has become just as well known for supporting art and design as...

CURRENTLY COVETING
Buon Compleanno! Living Divani Celebrates a Half-Century of Well-Done Décor

Looking back at five decades of fantastic contemporary Italian design.

THE LIST
The Italian Fashion Brand Creating the Best-Dressed Living Spaces

By forging partnerships with blue-chip design brands, Diesel creates objects that brings its...

Culture Club
“What’s So Great About The Diner?”

On the eve of Milan Design Week, opening night at The Diner was all about people, food, and fun.

Design
Our Editor-in-Chief’s Guide to Actually Enjoying Milan Design Week

This year’s top places to stay, eat, drink, and shop—along with the galleries to visit and...

Design
Designer of the Day: Gianluca Pacchioni

The Italian designer on his passion for plants, the allure of imperfection, and being seduced by a...

Fashion
Designer of the Day: Maya Reik

The millennial designer behind Marei 1998 on the need to create, her latest collection, and her...

Architecture
Inside Milan’s Most Sumptuous Entryways

An eccentric new book from Taschen
showcases a captivating selection of the
Italian...

Hotel of the Week
Milan’s Classic Interiors Pervade Hotel Viu

Designer Nicola Gallizia takes cues from the city’s Modernist legends, adding a contemporary...

NYCxDesign
This Pop-Up Bar Revisits the Golden Age of Milan

Jewelry brand Pomellato revives Bar Jamaica, once the city’s creative and social heart.

Store
Inside Issey Miyake’s New Milan Flagship

Tokujin Yoshioka retrofits a heritage space for the brand’s technology-driven designs.

News
Design Dispatch: April 11, 2017

Our daily look at the world through the lens of design.

Design
Salone 2017: Overheard in Milan

Snippets of talks and conversations during last week’s festivities that stuck with us.

Design
The Design World’s Most Influential Person (You’ve Probably Never Heard Of)

Rossana Orlandi’s Milan space is a bastion of groundbreaking contemporary design.

Essay
Buried in Velvet

One writer sees the tony fabric’s recent renaissance as a sign of the fraught times we live in.

Exclusive
Exclusive: At Home With Paola Navone

The Italian designer lives by the Thai concept of tham ma da, exalting the everyday.

Letter from Europe
Trump Talk at Maison & Objet and Beyond

Our editor-in-chief finds the U.S. president looming over the design and art worlds in Paris,...

News
Design Dispatch: Jan. 12, 2017

Our daily look at the world through the lens of design.

Travel
Room Mate Giulia is a Hotel Worthy of Milan’s Fashionable Travelers

A longtime resident of the city, Patricia Urquiola looked to a midcentury Italian aesthetic for the

Fashion
Retail: LabSolue

Travel
Giorgio Armani’s simple and elegant redesign for Nobu Milan places emphasis on textures – and the food

Giorgio Armani's simple and elegant redesign for Nobu Milan places emphasis on textures – and the