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      <title>Kering at Milan Design Week 2026</title>
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      <description>Kering at Milan Design Week 2026 split its two flagships across the city — Demna&amp;#39;s Gucci Memoria at San Simpliciano, Blazy&amp;#39;s Casa at Via San Maurilio 14.</description>
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      <title>The 12-object signature of MDW 2026</title>
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      <description>Why five fashion houses at MDW 2026 — Gucci, Hermès, Bottega Veneta, Tom Dixon, Louis Vuitton — chose the 12-object collection as the canonical home statement.</description>
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      <title>Fashion at Milan Design Week 2026: A Map of Seven House Presentations</title>
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      <description>The seven fashion houses that staged design-world presentations at Milan Design Week 2026 — what they showed, where, and with whom. A reference map across venues, architects, and strategies.</description>
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      <title>Salone del Mobile 2026: A Closing Report</title>
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      <description>As Milan empties out, we look back at the week that was — what worked, what didn&amp;#39;t, and what the 2026 edition tells us about where design is heading.</description>
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      <title>Bottega Veneta Casa: The Quietest Launch of the Week</title>
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      <description>Bottega Veneta enters home with &amp;#39;Casa&amp;#39; — twelve leather-and-craft objects, presented without the theatrical staging of fashion-house furniture.</description>
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      <title>Loewe Craft Prize 2026: The Quiet Triumph of Repair</title>
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      <description>Korean ceramicist Lee Eun-bee wins the Loewe Craft Prize with &amp;#39;Mended Vessels&amp;#39; — broken porcelain reassembled with gold and human hair.</description>
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      <title>Cassina Reissues Le Corbusier&#39;s Unbuilt Furniture</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Cassina releases six previously unproduced Le Corbusier pieces from 1928–1952 — drawings that waited nearly a century to become objects.</description>
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      <title>Prada and Theaster Gates: The Quiet Power of the Chawan</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Prada presents &amp;#39;Chawan Cabinet&amp;#39; — Theaster Gates ceramic vessels that ask what happens when a fashion house steps back and lets craft speak.</description>
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      <title>Tom Dixon Checks In: The Mua Mua Hotel at Mulino Estate</title>
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      <description>Tom Dixon turns a Gio Ponti–era Milanese estate into a functioning micro-hotel — asking what it means to live inside a design collection.</description>
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      <title>Copenhagen 3 Days of Design 2026: A Preview</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>The Nordic alternative to Salone returns June 17–19 with a programme that suggests Copenhagen has stopped trying to be Milan and committed to being itself.</description>
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      <title>Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades Returns to Palazzo Serbelloni</title>
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      <description>Louis Vuitton&amp;#39;s ongoing furniture programme adds new collaborations and revisits a Milanese palazzo that perfectly frames its nomadic ambitions.</description>
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      <title>Marni x Cucchi: The Three-Month Café That Isn&#39;t a Pop-Up</title>
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      <description>Marni&amp;#39;s takeover of Pasticceria Cucchi — a 1930s Milanese institution — is the most charming fashion-meets-design project of the week.</description>
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      <title>Phoebe Philo&#39;s First Object: A Mirror, Apparently</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Phoebe Philo&amp;#39;s first non-clothing piece — a hand-cast bronze mirror — arrived without announcement and sold out in four hours.</description>
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      <title>Gucci Memoria: Demna&#39;s First Design Statement</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>At the Basilica di San Simpliciano, Gucci&amp;#39;s new creative director presents Memoria — an exhibition that rewrites the house&amp;#39;s relationship with domestic space.</description>
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      <title>Hermès at La Pelota: When Craft Becomes Architecture</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Hermès returns to Via Palermo 10 with a home collection that elevates material intelligence to spatial experience.</description>
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      <title>Junya Ishigami&#39;s Vitra Pavilion: A Building That Almost Isn&#39;t There</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>The Vitra Campus adds a Junya Ishigami pavilion — glass and impossibly thin steel that disappears into the Weil-am-Rhein landscape.</description>
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      <title>Loro Piana Opens Casa Brera: A House That Refuses to Be a Showroom</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Loro Piana&amp;#39;s new four-floor residence in Brera is the most considered fashion-house space in Milan — and one that genuinely feels like a home.</description>
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      <title>Salone Raritas: The Fair Within the Fair</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Salone&amp;#39;s new collectible design platform — curated by Annalisa Rosso, designed by Formafantasma — argues rarity and mass can share a roof.</description>
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      <title>HADES x Tilda Swinton: Fashion Collaboration as Genuine Partnership</title>
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      <description>HADES and Tilda Swinton present &amp;#39;Notes from the Precipice&amp;#39; — a six-piece collection redefining fashion collaboration when both parties design.</description>
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      <title>Milan Design Week 2026: The Definitive Guide</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Everything you need to know about Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone 2026 — the districts, the installations, and the fashion houses making their mark.</description>
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      <title>Zumthor&#39;s LACMA: The Museum That Floats</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Peter Zumthor&amp;#39;s David Geffen Galleries open at LACMA — a sinuous concrete arc reimagining how 6,000 years of art can coexist on one plane.</description>
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      <title>V&amp;A East Opens: A Museum Shaped by Couture</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>O&amp;#39;Donnell &#43; Tuomey&amp;#39;s V&amp;amp;A East Museum opens in London&amp;#39;s Olympic Park — architecture that draws from Balenciaga tailoring and the concept of Ma.</description>
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      <title>The New Milan: Where to Eat, Drink, and See Design</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Our curated guide to Milan&amp;#39;s best restaurants, bars, and design spaces — updated for Design Week 2026.</description>
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      <title>About FORMA</title>
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      <description>FORMA is an independent editorial platform on fashion, design, and architecture, written from a graph of brands, designers, venues, and projects we&amp;#39;ve documented since 2026.</description>
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      <title>3 Days of Design 2026</title>
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      <title>Alexis Fabry</title>
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      <description>Co-artistic director of Hermès Maison.</description>
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      <title>Andrea Caputo</title>
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      <description>Collaborated on Bottega Veneta Casa interior (2026).</description>
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      <title>Archive activation</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Furniture publishers (Cassina, Vitra, Knoll, Fritz Hansen) reissuing previously unproduced or under-produced works from their archives, often with foundation partners.</description>
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      <title>Basilica di San Simpliciano</title>
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      <description>Romanesque basilica in Brera district. Hosted Gucci Memoria (2026).</description>
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      <title>Bijoy Jain</title>
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      <description>Founder of Studio Mumbai. Hand-building, natural materials.</description>
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      <title>Bottega Veneta</title>
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      <description>Italian leather house. Known for intrecciato weaving. Matthieu Blazy CD since 2021.</description>
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      <title>Brutalism in fashion</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Adoption of brutalist architectural language in fashion store interiors and presentation design — exposed concrete, raw structure, monumental scale.</description>
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      <title>Casa</title>
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      <description>Matthieu Blazy&amp;#39;s first home collection for Bottega Veneta — twelve objects led by a 4-metre intrecciato-woven calfskin daybed, shown in a permanent gallery at Via San Maurilio 14 in Milan, editions…</description>
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      <title>Casa Brera</title>
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      <title>Casa Brera</title>
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      <description>Loro Piana&amp;#39;s four-floor townhouse on Via Solferino 11. Opened 2026.</description>
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      <title>Cassina</title>
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      <description>Italian furniture publisher. Producer of the LC series since 1965.</description>
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      <title>Cecilie Bahnsen</title>
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      <description>Copenhagen-based designer.</description>
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      <title>Charlotte Macaux Perelman</title>
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      <description>Co-artistic director of Hermès Maison.</description>
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      <title>Charlotte Perriand</title>
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      <description>Co-designed the LC series with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret.</description>
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      <title>Chawan Cabinet</title>
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      <title>Chitose Abe</title>
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      <description>Founder of Sacai (1999).</description>
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      <title>Collaboration (genuine partnership)</title>
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      <description>Distinct from celebrity-licensing. Both parties contribute to design decisions over extended duration. HADES x Swinton, Cecilie Bahnsen x Alpha, Sacai x Carhartt.</description>
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      <description>Limited-edition design pieces priced above traditional luxury, sold to collectors and institutions. Typically editions of 12–100.</description>
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      <title>Craft</title>
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      <description>Hand-making, traditional techniques, slow production. Contested territory between luxury houses (claiming craft as identity) and independent makers.</description>
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      <title>David Geffen Galleries</title>
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      <description>Peter Zumthor&amp;#39;s 220,000 sq ft sinuous concrete arc, elevated 9 m above Wilshire Boulevard at LACMA in Los Angeles. Board-formed concrete and tinted glass; a twenty-year project that opened in 2026.</description>
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      <title>David Geffen Galleries (LACMA)</title>
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      <description>220,000 sq ft single-level encyclopaedic gallery. Twenty-year project.</description>
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      <title>Demna Gvasalia</title>
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      <description>Founded Vetements 2014, Balenciaga CD 2015–2024, Gucci CD 2025–.</description>
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      <title>Design hospitality</title>
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      <description>Designer-run restaurants, hotels, cafés that function as permanent design environments. Examples: Tom Dixon Mua Mua, Marni x Cucchi.</description>
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      <title>Eamonn McGill</title>
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      <description>Founder of HADES.</description>
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      <title>Fashion-into-design</title>
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      <description>The systematic move of fashion houses into furniture, lighting, hospitality, and interiors. Distinct from earlier brand-extension licensing because the creative ambition is genuine, not just…</description>
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      <title>Federica Sala</title>
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      <description>Milan-based curator. Programs Casa Brera cultural events.</description>
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      <title>Fondazione Battaglia</title>
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      <description>Bronze casting foundry. Worked with Marino Marini, Lucio Fontana, Phoebe Philo (2026 mirror).</description>
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      <title>Frank Gehry</title>
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      <description>Designed the Vitra Design Museum (1989). Pritzker laureate 1989.</description>
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      <title>Fuorisalone 2026</title>
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      <description>Off-site programme of Milan Design Week. Districts include Brera, Tortona, 5Vie, Isola.</description>
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      <title>GamFratesi</title>
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      <description>Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi.</description>
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      <description>Architect and editor of Domus. Defined twentieth-century Italian design.</description>
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      <title>Gucci</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Italian luxury house. Demna Gvasalia appointed creative director 2025.</description>
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      <title>HADES</title>
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      <description>British knitwear label founded by Eamonn McGill. Hand-framing and heritage techniques.</description>
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      <title>Hermès</title>
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      <description>Family-controlled French house. Strong material/craft heritage in leather and silk.</description>
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      <title>Herzog &amp; de Meuron</title>
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      <description>Designed VitraHaus (2010). Pritzker laureates 2001.</description>
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      <title>India Mahdavi</title>
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      <description>Paris-based studio.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Bottega Veneta&amp;#39;s signature woven leather technique. Diagonal strips of hand-cut calfskin, 4mm wide. Originated 1966.</description>
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      <title>Japanese architecture (contemporary)</title>
      <link>/themes/japanese-architecture/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/themes/japanese-architecture/</guid>
      <description>Lineage from Mies through SANAA, Ishigami: pursuit of disappearing the building, structure as light field rather than mass.</description>
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      <title>Jonathan Anderson</title>
      <link>/people/jonathan-anderson/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/people/jonathan-anderson/</guid>
      <description>Loewe CD 2013–2024. Founded LOEWE Foundation Craft Prize 2016.</description>
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      <title>Junya Ishigami</title>
      <link>/people/junya-ishigami/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/people/junya-ishigami/</guid>
      <description>Tokyo-based architect. Known for KAIT Workshop, Maison Owl, Children&amp;#39;s Park.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Junya Ishigami Pavilion</title>
      <link>/venues/vitra-pavilion-ishigami/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/venues/vitra-pavilion-ishigami/</guid>
      <description>280 sqm pavilion with 47 thin steel columns. Located within Vitra Campus.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Junya Ishigami Pavilion (Vitra)</title>
      <link>/projects/vitra-pavilion-ishigami-project/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/projects/vitra-pavilion-ishigami-project/</guid>
      <description></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Kering</title>
      <link>/brands/kering/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/brands/kering/</guid>
      <description>Luxury group. Owns Gucci, Bottega Veneta, Saint Laurent, Balenciaga and others.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Konstantin Grcic</title>
      <link>/people/konstantin-grcic/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/people/konstantin-grcic/</guid>
      <description>Industrial designer. Cassina collaborator.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>La Pelota</title>
      <link>/venues/la-pelota/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/venues/la-pelota/</guid>
      <description>Former Basque pelota court at Via Palermo 10. Annual Hermès Design Week venue.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>LC Series</title>
      <link>/projects/cassina-lc-series/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/projects/cassina-lc-series/</guid>
      <description></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Le Corbusier</title>
      <link>/people/le-corbusier/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/people/le-corbusier/</guid>
      <description>Pioneer of modernist architecture. LC furniture series with Perriand and Jeanneret.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Le Corbusier Inédits</title>
      <link>/projects/cassina-le-corbusier-inedits/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/projects/cassina-le-corbusier-inedits/</guid>
      <description></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Les Mains de la Maison</title>
      <link>/projects/hermes-les-mains-de-la-maison/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/projects/hermes-les-mains-de-la-maison/</guid>
      <description></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>LOEWE Foundation Craft Prize 2026</title>
      <link>/events/loewe-craft-prize-2026/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/events/loewe-craft-prize-2026/</guid>
      <description>Annual international prize founded 2016 under Jonathan Anderson.</description>
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      <title>Loro Piana</title>
      <link>/brands/loro-piana/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/brands/loro-piana/</guid>
      <description>Cashmere and textile specialist; quiet-luxury archetype.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Louis Vuitton</title>
      <link>/brands/louis-vuitton/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/brands/louis-vuitton/</guid>
      <description>LVMH&amp;#39;s flagship leather-goods house. Runs Objets Nomades furniture programme since 2012.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Ludovica Virga</title>
      <link>/people/ludovica-virga/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/people/ludovica-virga/</guid>
      <description>Curator of Mulino Estate (Milan).</description>
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      <title>LVMH</title>
      <link>/brands/lvmh/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/brands/lvmh/</guid>
      <description>Largest luxury group. Owns Louis Vuitton, Loro Piana, Phoebe Philo (minority), Dior and others.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Marni</title>
      <link>/brands/marni/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/brands/marni/</guid>
      <description>Italian house known for colour and graphic motifs.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Marni x Cucchi</title>
      <link>/projects/marni-cucchi-residency/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/projects/marni-cucchi-residency/</guid>
      <description></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Matthieu Blazy</title>
      <link>/people/matthieu-blazy/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/people/matthieu-blazy/</guid>
      <description>Bottega Veneta CD 2021–.</description>
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      <title>Memoria</title>
      <link>/projects/gucci-memoria/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/projects/gucci-memoria/</guid>
      <description>Demna Gvasalia&amp;#39;s first design statement at Gucci — twelve domestic objects in distressed GG canvas, flora print, and Web stripe, staged inside the 4th-century Basilica di San Simpliciano at Milan…</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Mid-century modernism</title>
      <link>/themes/mid-century/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/themes/mid-century/</guid>
      <description>Design movement c. 1945–1970. The canon Cassina, Knoll, and Vitra largely commercialise.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Milan Design Week 2026</title>
      <link>/events/milan-design-week-2026/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/events/milan-design-week-2026/</guid>
      <description>City-wide. Includes Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone.</description>
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      <title>Mua Mua Hotel</title>
      <link>/projects/tom-dixon-mua-mua/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/projects/tom-dixon-mua-mua/</guid>
      <description></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Mulino Estate</title>
      <link>/venues/mulino-estate/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/venues/mulino-estate/</guid>
      <description>Designed by Chiodi and Gio Ponti for the Sordelli family. Curated by Ludovica Virga.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Notes from the Precipice</title>
      <link>/projects/hades-tilda-swinton-precipice/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/projects/hades-tilda-swinton-precipice/</guid>
      <description></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Objets Nomades (programme)</title>
      <link>/projects/louis-vuitton-objets-nomades-programme/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/projects/louis-vuitton-objets-nomades-programme/</guid>
      <description></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Objets Nomades 2026</title>
      <link>/projects/louis-vuitton-objets-nomades-2026/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/projects/louis-vuitton-objets-nomades-2026/</guid>
      <description></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>OTB Group</title>
      <link>/brands/otb/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/brands/otb/</guid>
      <description>Italian luxury group. Owns Marni, Maison Margiela, Diesel, Jil Sander, Viktor &amp;amp; Rolf.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Palazzo Serbelloni</title>
      <link>/venues/palazzo-serbelloni/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/venues/palazzo-serbelloni/</guid>
      <description>Neoclassical palazzo on Corso Venezia 16. Annual Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades venue.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Paris Fashion Week AW25</title>
      <link>/events/paris-fashion-week-aw25/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/events/paris-fashion-week-aw25/</guid>
      <description></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Pasticceria Cucchi</title>
      <link>/venues/pasticceria-cucchi/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/venues/pasticceria-cucchi/</guid>
      <description>Historic Milanese pastry shop on Corso Genova 1. Hosted Marni residency 2026.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Patricia Urquiola</title>
      <link>/people/patricia-urquiola/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/people/patricia-urquiola/</guid>
      <description>Long-running collaborator with Cassina.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Patronage (cultural)</title>
      <link>/themes/patronage/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/themes/patronage/</guid>
      <description>Brand provides resources for cultural work without requiring brand reference in the work. Prada Frames, Prada x Theaster Gates Chawan Cabinet.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Peter Zumthor</title>
      <link>/people/peter-zumthor/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/people/peter-zumthor/</guid>
      <description>Pritzker laureate 2009. Designer of LACMA David Geffen Galleries.</description>
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      <title>Phoebe Philo</title>
      <link>/brands/phoebe-philo/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/brands/phoebe-philo/</guid>
      <description>Eponymous label launched 2023 with LVMH backing and operational independence.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Phoebe Philo</title>
      <link>/people/phoebe-philo-person/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/people/phoebe-philo-person/</guid>
      <description>Chloé CD 2001–2006, Celine CD 2008–2018, eponymous label 2023–.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Phoebe Philo Bronze Mirror (edition of 200)</title>
      <link>/projects/phoebe-philo-bronze-mirror/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/projects/phoebe-philo-bronze-mirror/</guid>
      <description></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Pierre Jeanneret</title>
      <link>/people/pierre-jeanneret/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/people/pierre-jeanneret/</guid>
      <description>Le Corbusier&amp;#39;s cousin and frequent collaborator.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Post-industrial</title>
      <link>/themes/post-industrial/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/themes/post-industrial/</guid>
      <description>Use of former industrial spaces (warehouses, factories) and industrial materials in luxury contexts. Stone Island reference point.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Prada</title>
      <link>/brands/prada/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/brands/prada/</guid>
      <description>Italian house with sustained cultural and design programming (Prada Frames, Fondazione Prada).</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Quiet luxury</title>
      <link>/themes/quiet-luxury/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/themes/quiet-luxury/</guid>
      <description>Aesthetic / commercial position favouring discretion, material intelligence, no obvious logos. Loro Piana, Phoebe Philo, Hermès.</description>
    </item>
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      <title>Residence (typology)</title>
      <link>/themes/residence/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/themes/residence/</guid>
      <description>Brand-owned residential showroom that operates between gallery, retail, and home. Examples: Loro Piana Casa Brera, Bottega Veneta Casa.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Restraint</title>
      <link>/themes/restraint/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/themes/restraint/</guid>
      <description>Aesthetic / strategic preference for understated presentation, minimal branding, small editions. Opposite of brand-activation maximalism.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Rho Fiera</title>
      <link>/venues/rho-fiera/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/venues/rho-fiera/</guid>
      <description>Salone del Mobile main fairground.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Salone del Mobile 2026</title>
      <link>/events/salone-del-mobile-2026/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/events/salone-del-mobile-2026/</guid>
      <description>64th edition. Over 1,900 exhibitors. Held at Rho Fiera.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>SANAA</title>
      <link>/people/sanaa/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/people/sanaa/</guid>
      <description>Sejima &#43; Nishizawa. Designed Vitra factory building. Pritzker laureates 2010.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Tadao Ando</title>
      <link>/people/tadao-ando/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/people/tadao-ando/</guid>
      <description>Designed Vitra Conference Pavilion. Pritzker laureate 1995.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Theaster Gates</title>
      <link>/people/theaster-gates/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/people/theaster-gates/</guid>
      <description>Chicago-based artist. Trained as a ceramicist; works in sculpture, urban planning, craft.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Tilda Swinton</title>
      <link>/people/tilda-swinton/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/people/tilda-swinton/</guid>
      <description>Co-designed Notes from the Precipice with HADES (2026).</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Tokyo Design Week 2026</title>
      <link>/events/tokyo-design-week-2026/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/events/tokyo-design-week-2026/</guid>
      <description></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Tom Dixon</title>
      <link>/brands/tom-dixon-brand/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/brands/tom-dixon-brand/</guid>
      <description>London-based lighting and furniture brand led by Tom Dixon.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Tom Dixon</title>
      <link>/people/tom-dixon/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/people/tom-dixon/</guid>
      <description>Founder of Tom Dixon (2002). Previously creative director at Habitat.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Via San Maurilio 14</title>
      <link>/venues/via-san-maurilio-14/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/venues/via-san-maurilio-14/</guid>
      <description>Permanent home gallery for Bottega Veneta Casa. Opened 2026.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Vincenzo De Cotiis</title>
      <link>/people/vincenzo-de-cotiis/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/people/vincenzo-de-cotiis/</guid>
      <description>Milan-based architect. Restored Loro Piana&amp;#39;s Casa Brera (2026).</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Vitra</title>
      <link>/brands/vitra/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/brands/vitra/</guid>
      <description>Swiss-German furniture publisher. Operates Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein.</description>
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      <title>Vitra Campus</title>
      <link>/venues/vitra-campus/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/venues/vitra-campus/</guid>
      <description>Open-air collection of contemporary architecture by Gehry, Ando, Hadid, Herzog &amp;amp; de Meuron, SANAA, Ishigami.</description>
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      <title>Vitra Conference Pavilion</title>
      <link>/venues/vitra-conference-pavilion/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/venues/vitra-conference-pavilion/</guid>
      <description>Located within Vitra Campus.</description>
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      <title>Vitra Design Museum</title>
      <link>/venues/vitra-design-museum/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/venues/vitra-design-museum/</guid>
      <description>Located within Vitra Campus.</description>
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      <title>Vitra Fire Station</title>
      <link>/venues/vitra-fire-station/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/venues/vitra-fire-station/</guid>
      <description>Hadid&amp;#39;s first completed building. Located within Vitra Campus.</description>
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      <title>VitraHaus</title>
      <link>/venues/vitrahaus/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/venues/vitrahaus/</guid>
      <description>Located within Vitra Campus.</description>
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      <title>Zaha Hadid</title>
      <link>/people/zaha-hadid/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/people/zaha-hadid/</guid>
      <description>Designed Vitra Fire Station (1993). Pritzker laureate 2004.</description>
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