Fabrica at Milan Design Week

ars fabricandi, a design brand established in Brussels in 2016, invites Fabrica to take part in its debut project, Genesi.

Genesi is a collection of furnishings created by eleven designers from different continents. Fabrica’s team, coordinated by Sam Baron and Giorgia Zanellato, is composed of Ainhoa Garmendia (Spain), Anne-Claire Hostequin (France), Jo-chieh Huang (Taiwan), Angéles Ortiz (Equador), Daniel Rous (United Kingdom) and Quentin Vuong (France).

Each object retains traces of its origins while blending with ars fabricandi’s core vision, i.e. design as a cosmopolitan, international lifestyle inspired by five fundamental values: iconic design, interconnecting stories, the perception of the materials’ essence, designers and craftspeople for whom their work is a life passion.

The objects are the fruit of technical and style-driven research and of the designers’ emotions and memories. The materials, too, fuse together to create a unique combination that speaks a universal, authentic language.

Palazzo Litta - Corso Magenta, 24

UNBOXED is a Fabrica project for Designerbox, the well-known French design editor. It will be on show in the United Colors of Benetton store windows on Piazza del Duomo: small design articles and clothes from the spring/summer 2017 collection alternate in a carefully-studied colourful, narrative display.

UNBOXED is a challenge and a research project to celebrate multicultural creativity, focusing on the narrative potential of non-technologic products. It transcends functionality to spread poetry, humour and even subversion in our interiors.

Designerbox uses a unique subscription method to promote accessible design. Each month subscribers receive a surprise object that is new and not available elsewhere. Designed by the stars of international design, each article is part of a limited edition and sent by post in a numbered wooden box. The object sent to subscribers’ homes in September 2017 will be one from those in the Benetton store – containers, decorative articles, candlesticks, vases or incense holders – chosen by voting in situ (4-9 April) and online voting (4-30 April) Exceptionally, a selection of Designerbox’s previous issues will be available for purchase at a special price.

4-9 April, 9.30am – 8.30pm

United Colors of Benetton Store

Piazza del Duomo

This&That, a Fabrica design project shown at the 2009 Salone Satellite has been invited to take part in SALONESATELLITE. 20 years of new creativity, an exhibition to celebrate Salone Satellite’s twentieth anniversary

This&That is a collection of ten blown-glass bells incorporating details taken from our day-to-day lives such as a bicycle handlebar, a stove pipe or a cow’s ears, with the elegant, sophisticated beauty of blown glass. Different materials and production processes merge harmoniously to create a new, thought-provoking synergy.

5-25 April, 10am – 7pm

Fabbrica del Vapore

Via Procaccini, 4

Drawing Glass explores the creative process behind design. Using no digital instruments, Fabrica’s designer team did a series of hand-drawn sketches, full-scale compositions of lines on paper.

Master glass-blower Massimo Lunardon studied these 14 drawings, with no scale measurements, and created his personal interpretation of them, giving them three-dimensional life.

Galleria miFAC at Palazzo SIAM

Teatro alla Scala di Milano

Via Santa Marta, 18