Philippe-Malouin

On 22 May 2026, the 29th Compasso d’Oro jury — chaired by Jasper Morrison under ADI president Luciano Galimberti — handed Italy’s design Oscar to 20 projects at the ADI Design Museum in Milan. The compasso d’oro 2026 winners include Philippe Malouin’s Bilboquet table lamp for Flos and Snøhetta’s Array modular sofa for MDF Italia, while Patrizia Moroso of Moroso took the products career award alongside three more lifetime laurels — Alberto Meda and Paola Lenti for design, Aldo Colonetti for research. Thirty-eight honourable mentions and three long-selling products round out a roll call that this year reads less like a national survey and more like a refereed argument about what Italian industrial design currently rewards: mass-market objects with a clear authorial signature, infrastructure and mobility projects with measurable social weight, and historical research that pays its rent. ...

Element: Metal at Schloss Hollenegg closes a five-edition castle programme that has, since 2016, turned a 12th-century Styrian fortress into the most material-specific design exhibition outside the museum circuit. The schloss hollenegg metal show runs until 31 May 2026 in a building first documented in 1163, owned by the Liechtenstein family since 1821, and curated by Alice Stori Liechtenstein with works by Max Lamb, Philippe Malouin, Sabine Marcelis and a cast of roughly a dozen others. It is the last in a sequence that has cycled through the classical elements one material at a time. To close on metal - and on extruded aluminium in particular - is a choice with its own logic, and the choice deserves to be read carefully. ...