/posts/ Recent content in Archive on FORMA Hugo en-us Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/kering-at-milan-design-week-2026/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/kering-at-milan-design-week-2026/ Kering at Milan Design Week 2026 split its two flagships across the city — Demna's Gucci Memoria at San Simpliciano, Blazy's Casa at Via San Maurilio 14. /posts/the-twelve-object-signature/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/the-twelve-object-signature/ 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. /posts/mdw-2026-fashion-map/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/mdw-2026-fashion-map/ 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. /posts/salone-2026-closing-report/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/salone-2026-closing-report/ As Milan empties out, we look back at the week that was — what worked, what didn't, and what the 2026 edition tells us about where design is heading. /posts/bottega-veneta-casa/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/bottega-veneta-casa/ Bottega Veneta enters home with 'Casa' — twelve leather-and-craft objects, presented without the theatrical staging of fashion-house furniture. /posts/loewe-craft-prize-2026/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/loewe-craft-prize-2026/ Korean ceramicist Lee Eun-bee wins the Loewe Craft Prize with 'Mended Vessels' — broken porcelain reassembled with gold and human hair. /posts/cassina-corbusier-archive/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/cassina-corbusier-archive/ Cassina releases six previously unproduced Le Corbusier pieces from 1928–1952 — drawings that waited nearly a century to become objects. /posts/prada-theaster-gates-chawan/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/prada-theaster-gates-chawan/ Prada presents 'Chawan Cabinet' — Theaster Gates ceramic vessels that ask what happens when a fashion house steps back and lets craft speak. /posts/tom-dixon-mua-mua-hotel/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/tom-dixon-mua-mua-hotel/ Tom Dixon turns a Gio Ponti–era Milanese estate into a functioning micro-hotel — asking what it means to live inside a design collection. /posts/copenhagen-3-days-design-preview/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/copenhagen-3-days-design-preview/ 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. /posts/louis-vuitton-objets-nomades/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/louis-vuitton-objets-nomades/ Louis Vuitton's ongoing furniture programme adds new collaborations and revisits a Milanese palazzo that perfectly frames its nomadic ambitions. /posts/marni-cucchi-cafe/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/marni-cucchi-cafe/ Marni's takeover of Pasticceria Cucchi — a 1930s Milanese institution — is the most charming fashion-meets-design project of the week. /posts/phoebe-philo-first-object/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/phoebe-philo-first-object/ Phoebe Philo's first non-clothing piece — a hand-cast bronze mirror — arrived without announcement and sold out in four hours. /posts/gucci-memoria/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/gucci-memoria/ At the Basilica di San Simpliciano, Gucci's new creative director presents Memoria — an exhibition that rewrites the house's relationship with domestic space. /posts/hermes-la-pelota/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/hermes-la-pelota/ Hermès returns to Via Palermo 10 with a home collection that elevates material intelligence to spatial experience. /posts/vitra-campus-ishigami/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/vitra-campus-ishigami/ The Vitra Campus adds a Junya Ishigami pavilion — glass and impossibly thin steel that disappears into the Weil-am-Rhein landscape. /posts/loro-piana-casa-brera/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/loro-piana-casa-brera/ Loro Piana's new four-floor residence in Brera is the most considered fashion-house space in Milan — and one that genuinely feels like a home. /posts/salone-raritas-collectible-design/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/salone-raritas-collectible-design/ Salone's new collectible design platform — curated by Annalisa Rosso, designed by Formafantasma — argues rarity and mass can share a roof. /posts/hades-tilda-swinton-knitwear/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/hades-tilda-swinton-knitwear/ HADES and Tilda Swinton present 'Notes from the Precipice' — a six-piece collection redefining fashion collaboration when both parties design. /posts/milan-dw-2026-guide/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/milan-dw-2026-guide/ Everything you need to know about Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone 2026 — the districts, the installations, and the fashion houses making their mark. /posts/lacma-zumthor-opens/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/lacma-zumthor-opens/ Peter Zumthor's David Geffen Galleries open at LACMA — a sinuous concrete arc reimagining how 6,000 years of art can coexist on one plane. /posts/va-east-museum-opens/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/va-east-museum-opens/ O'Donnell + Tuomey's V&A East Museum opens in London's Olympic Park — architecture that draws from Balenciaga tailoring and the concept of Ma. /posts/new-milan-eat-drink-design/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/new-milan-eat-drink-design/ Our curated guide to Milan's best restaurants, bars, and design spaces — updated for Design Week 2026.