On the Collateral website, Tommaso Berra publishes the first part of an interview with Stefano Boeri on the design of the “Milan model” in the context of Milan Design Week 2023.
Focusing mainly on Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone, the article sweeps through Milan’s most significant design districts and traverses the most impactful events that have marked Design Week over time.
“Design Week has been and remains an inescapable event for Milan, just as Milan is the inescapable place of reference when it comes to design. For us, this week has always been a great reconfirmation in Milan’s role; even in the most crisis-ridden moments, the Salone has represented a push, a conviction that energy and work from all over the world would find a point of condensation to be released forcefully throughout the city. And this is also Milan, one of the few cities in the world that is able to find an extraordinary space, such as that of the fair, and to offer a city that transforms itself, becoming completely open and permeable on the ground floors.
And I find that these two conditions coexist because of their individuality: the Salone and the Fuorisalone, Rho Pero and the Milan of public spaces, venues and courtyards; they are exceptional precisely because they are so strong one independently of the other.
On the other hand, we must never forget that energies from all over the world, from very important territories, arrive in the city, and without the network of districts, of small and medium-sized companies, there would be no Salone or the history of Italian design. We represent the tip of the iceberg, and we are indebted to all the submerged part.” says Stefano Boeri.
To read the full article: https://www.collater.al/stefano-boeri-intervista-futuro-milano-design/
To read the second part of the interview: https://www.collater.al/stefano-boeri-intervista-futuro-milano-design-2/