Dezeen Events Guide launches its digital guide to Milan design week 2026

Check out Dezeen Events Guide's digital guide to Milan design week 2026, which takes place across the city from 20 to 26 April.

Our festival guide highlights the key events taking place across the participating districts, including exhibitions, installations, open showrooms, launches, talks and parties.

Festival highlights in the design fairs Salone del Mobile and Alcova, as well as brand activations from Prada, Tom Dixon and Moooi.

Milan design week's fuorisalone events take place across districts such as Brera Design, Isola, Milano Durini, Porta Venezia, 5Vie and Tortona.

Interactive map

Dezeen's 2026 guide also features an interactive map to help you navigate your visit...

Artemis II Captures Spectacular Images of ‘Earthset’ from Deep Space

For the first time in more than 50 years, NASA launched a mission to the Moon. A lot has changed since 1972, when we last checked in on the enormous, rocky satellite, but there is much to learn—and revisit—when it comes to traveling through deep space and considering what, as NASA describes it, a “long-term return” to our lunar companion could look like. The Artemis II mission, which is currently underway and scheduled to last a total of 10 days, has also released some remarkable images of our home planet.

A striking image of the Earth “setting” behind the cratered Moon...

Turning Oil Industry Infrastructure Into Friendly Public Seating

Norway is a country that has become fabulously wealthy through oil. The 6.3mm-thick steel tubing used by that industry has here been turned to another purpose: Public seating.

Industrial designer Jens‑Egil Nysæther and architectural designer Line Mari Sørra run Lije Studio, a design firm in Oslo. They designed this friendly-looking outdoor seating system called Venture. Sections of curved and straight steel pipes, the same ones used by the oil industry, are joined and topped with curved wooden saddles.

"Inspired by proxemics, it supports both social interaction and personal comfort," the duo writes. ("Proxemics" is...

Industrial Designer Silvio Rebholz's Norm Brackets Make Undesirable Wood Useful

These aluminum Norm Brackets are by Switzerland-based industrial designer Silvio Rebholz. The idea is to create furniture, while letting nature do most of the work. Parts of trees considered undesirable by the lumber industry are gainfully employed.

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Bar di Bello: La Dolce Vita Comes to Sunset Boulevard, L.A

There is a particular kind of bar that exists in old Milan, warmly lit, unhurried, slightly theatrical, where the aperitivo hour stretches luxuriously toward midnight and the Negroni arrives in a glass the size of a small fishbowl. Los Angeles, for all its gifts, has never quite managed to replicate that feeling. Until now. Bar di Bello opened at Sunset Row in Silver Lake this April and, from the moment you push through those deep maroon curtains, something shifts. You want a martini. You want to stay.

The name, as co-owner Alex Wilmot will happily admit, doesn’t quite mean anything in...

ACE Surfaces by PoliLam

Dezeen Showroom: US company PoliLam utilised nanotechnology to create its ACE Surfaces range of laminate panels, which have high performance qualities and are soft to the touch.

Made for applications such as wall panelling, cabinetry and countertops, the ACE Surfaces range of high-pressure laminate (HPL) and compact panels is designed for areas in constant use, including kitchens and bathrooms in both residential and commercial contexts.

The panels are made of paper and resin as with all HPL, but refinement through nanotechnology gives them an ultra-matt, fingerprint-resistant finish and soft, silky feel.

The surfaces are available in over 40...

A Rare Complete Braun Atelier 1980s Hi-Fi System

As vintage hunters know, it can be difficult to find components of the Braun Atelier system, designed by Dieter Rams in 1979, in the wild. It's rarer still to locate a complete stack of all the components and the pedestal, but that's what reseller De Mauricio has gotten their hands on.

Daniel Sackheim Traverses Los Angeles’ Noir Side in ‘The City Unseen’

When we think of Los Angeles, we often picture seemingly endless sunny skies, postmodern downtown skyscrapers, Hollywood, and beachy enclaves like Venice. But there’s also a mysterious, lurking side of Los Angeles popularized by legendary gangsters like Mickey Cohen and the hardboiled novels of Raymond Chandler, published between the 1930s and 1950s.

For Emmy award-winning director and photographer Daniel Sackheim, this gritty, shadowy underbelly lends itself to a series of bold black-and-white photos that highlight the noir valence of this iconic hub. His forthcoming book, The City Unseen, leans into L.A.’s dualities, focusing on historic buildings, trains, and individuals walking through...

Sabella Arquitetura crowns Brazilian house with gridded timber roof

A gridded timber roof shelters the interiors and external terraces of Casa Colmeia, a low-lying home outside São Paolo designed by local studio Sabella Arquitetura.

Located on a sloping wooded site in Porto Feliz, the 1,600-square-metre home is organised across two wide levels that open out onto a series of tropical gardens designed with landscape designer Treliz Paisagismo.

This planting helps to shade Casa Colmeia's largely glazed exterior, along with folding shutters, external blinds and the deep overhang of the upper level's gridded timber roof.

"The design of Casa Colmeia emerged from the challenge...

Smaller-wheeled Lime bike aims to "get more people cycling"

Micromobility company Lime is rolling out a new design of its rental electric bikes in the UK that it hopes will be more appealing to women and older riders.

Updated Lime bikes started appearing in British cities in late March, having already been trialled on streets in select locations across the US, Australia and Europe for several months.

Among several changes from the previous Gen4 bike are much smaller wheels, a lower frame and the relocation of the battery from the crossbar to behind the seat post.

Lime has pitched the new-generation bike –...