With lots of of photographs on my digital camera and a bag filled with press materials, it’s at all times tough to decide on what, and who to decide on to put in writing about right here on vosgesparis. Some exhibitions are simply spectacular and stick with you for a very long time, the brand new work of designers I took to coronary heart, and take into account as mates after seeing them at totally different design occasions and nations.
I might love to point out all of it, however time is my biggest enemy. I write each article on vosgesparis myself, and every thing is my selection, my opinion, and 99% my images. It’s at all times about making decisions, not solely of who I wish to present extra of, but additionally the supplies that caught my eye, as a result of there are many them to speak about after Milan. Do I write concerning the numerous glass installations, the bricks, the gorgeous creations? About marble that was seen in every single place?
With Antwerp Design Week developing, learn my first article right here: Antwerp Design Week 2026 | A design vacation spot open to everybody and a second one coming to you tomorrow, I select to inform you extra about some Belgian designers I met throughout Milan Design Week.
Studio DO
Should you comply with me on Instagram, you’ll have seen Studio DO , who introduced ‘Throughout the Ruins of Aesthetics & Operate’ at Alcova. The set up explored the interaction between heritage, geology, and modern manufacturing processes.
Lesser-known however richly layered Belgian heritage stones akin to crimson and black marble, blue limestone, and flint, along with the Italian marble custom, shaped a brand new spatial intervention that weaved collectively Studio DO’s newest initiatives right into a scenographic set up.
Primarily based in Antwerp, Studio DO is a stone chopping atelier based by Dana Seachuga and Octave Vandeweghe. These two creatives work independently: Dana as a jewelry maker and Octave as an artist. For Studio DO they joined forces and share their artistic visions and experience.
Pushed by their affection for stone chopping, they analysis the fabric and cultural position of (gem)stones inside the realm of useful objects. Utilizing fundamental interventions, shapes and aesthetics, they attempt to seek for the minimal motion mandatory to offer a rock a (conventional) operate.
Photograph – vosgesparis
GARÇONNIÈRE
On my final day in Milan I didn’t actually had a schedule aside from visiting a number of smaller exhibitions at 5vie , ‘When Apricots Blossom’ of the Uzbekistan Artwork and Tradition Growth Basis. And Antonio Marras’ retailer close to our residence and his retailer at by way of Montenapoleone. Extra about all that one other time. I began my day at 5vie visiting the exhibition of Elias Van Orshaegen and inside architect Maarten Van Meerbeecokay who introduced: GARÇONNIÈRE
I don’t know in case you have the identical, however I used to be intrigued by the identify of the exhibition, impressed by the historic garçonnière: a pied-à-terre historically utilized by members of the bourgeoisie as a refuge away from their formal, each day residence. The exhibition was at one of many smaller areas at 5vie and mixed Van Orshaegen’s sculptural strategy to furnishings with Van Meerbeek’s narrative strategy to inside structure. The set up consisted of a number of objects introduced in quite a lot of small areas as a part of an architectural and atmospheric composition.
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