A couple of days in the past I got here again from Milan Design Week. Yearly me and a gaggle of pals keep in the identical neighborhood, and I really feel at house the second leaving the airport. If you understand me longer, you understand that I’ve a private reference to the nation. Italian is my second language, and I like these small Italian quirks and on a regular basis rituals.
So all good, but additionally barely totally different this 12 months although, I keep in mind final 12 months coming again exhausted. This time I had set just a few priorities, exhibitions that I actually didn’t wish to miss, we skipped most showrooms and focused on the particular exhibitions and people we love annually. After all we missed some, however in the long run I would like little to have an ideal day! We all the time put aside an entire day for Alcova, and I used to be glad Alcova returned to ‘The Baggio Army Hospital’. At Alcova, you discover quite a lot of designers from everywhere in the world; some designers I had met earlier than, and others had been utterly new to me, so was Sten Studio with their exhibition ‘The marriage’
photograph Ramona Balaban
Sten Studio – The marriage
In an deserted chapel inside La Casa delle Suore, Sten Studio presents ‘The Marriage ceremony’. A sculptural set up that introduced collectively totally different parts: female and masculine, softness and construction, instinct and kind. Contained in the chapel, stone is used as a cloth all through the house, whereas objects are positioned like quiet witnesses, making a setting that feels each thought-about and restrained.
What’s normally non permanent, corresponding to flowers, gentle and the second of a ceremony, seems right here translated into stone. Somewhat than a standard assortment, The Marriage ceremony introduced collectively objects, house and narrative, the place stone, setting and association outline the environment. The church itself was additionally stunning, with its stained-glass home windows, ceiling, and the comfortable colours on the partitions typical of any such house. The entire expertise was accompanied by harp music. Try my Alcova 2026 Instagram spotlight to see and listen to extra of it. Earlier Alcova publications may be discovered right here: The Collectible Edit – Alcova
photograph Ramona Balaban
photograph Ramona Balaban
photograph Ramona Balaban
photograph Ramona Balaban
About Sten Studio
Primarily based in Mexico Metropolis, Sten Studio is a design laboratory which tackles the sweetness and thriller of pure phenomena by way of using stones and crystals in modern furnishings and bespoke ornamental objects. Exploring any and the whole lot shaped by pure processes, the lab embraces minerals as each medium and muse.
Pushed by the ability of collaboration, the design laboratory works each native and overseas to supply among the most complicated and various mineral constructions identified to our pure world. From there, every section of the design is a shared course of throughout suppliers, fabricators, and producers to develop our concepts in kind and idea.
photographs ©vosgesparis / Ramona Balaban
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