The immersive project by Luke Edward Hall, curated by Federica Sala and designed by Balich Wonder Studio, celebrates the Caviar silver collection and its iconic microbead motif. The experience guides visitors into the Maison’s universe, weaving together Italian tradition, mythology, and poetic imagery. A luminous and theatrical visual narrative dedicated to the history of Italian caviar and the mysteries of water.

The exhibition curated by Federica Sala for FENIX® and Formica® on the occasion of 3daysofdesign 2025 explores the dialogue between surfaces, colours, patterns, and design languages through the work of six international design studios. The project revisits the evolution of the two brands, from the 1920s to the 2000s, through a journey that brings together memory, innovation, and contemporary design.

The exhibition curated for Visteria Foundation on the occasion of Milan Design Week was later brought to Warsaw, within the spaces of Villa Gawroński. The project explores the evolution of Polish craftsmanship and design through the work of twenty-three contemporary designers, bringing together materials, memory, and cultural identity.

The exhibition curated for Visteria Foundation on the occasion of Milan Design Week explores the evolution of Polish craftsmanship and design through the work of twenty-three contemporary designers. The project brings together materials, memory, and cultural identity, investigating the influence of Brutalism, Romanticism, folk traditions, and Art Deco in shaping a new Polish design aesthetic.

A group exhibition curated by Federica Sala for Secondome at the Rossana Orlandi Gallery, bringing together six designers and studios to explore imagination as a generative and transformative force in contemporary design.

An exhibition curated by Federica Sala at Milan’s Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, celebrating ten years of Marta Sala Éditions through a selection of more than eighty pieces, including iconic designs and the new collection created with Herzog & de Meuron.

More Good News è una sezione dedicata al design di Cini Boeri, Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Gae Aulenti, Franca Helg e Nanda Vigo, curata da Federica Sala e aggiunta, in occasione della tappa di Montréal, alla mostra Buone Nuove. Women in Architecture, organizzata dal MAXXI e curata da Pippo Ciorra, Elena Motisi ed Elena Tinacci.

Una mostra fotografica curata da Federica Sala e organizzata dall’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Colonia, che documenta attraverso le immagini di Jessica Soffiati la riscoperta del negozio Esprit progettato da Sottsass Associati nel 1986.

Connecting Choices: Taiwanese Designers Meet Italian Design è una mostra curata da Federica Sala a Taiwan, realizzata in occasione dell’Italian Design Day, che mette in dialogo il lavoro di designer taiwanesi con la cultura e il linguaggio del design italiano.

Presented by Dolce&Gabbana during Milan Design Week and curated by Federica Sala, the project brings together eleven international designers under 40 in a journey dedicated to the dialogue between cultural identities, contemporary languages, and Italian craftsmanship. Through ten works, the initiative celebrates the value of Made in Italy as a ground for exchange, research, and experimentation.

The installation conceived by Marion Mailaender for Élitis on the occasion of Milan Design Week, presented within the spaces of Assab One, interprets the French brand’s textile universe through an oversized, ironic, and immersive setting, transforming fabrics, wallcoverings, and accessories into a tailor-made spatial narrative.

The project, presented by FENIX® during Milan Design Week within FENIX Scenario, explores the potential of matter and surfaces through the concept of the “double.” The installation, designed by Studioboom, brings together projects by CARA \ DAVIDE, DWA Design Studio, Martinelli Venezia, Næssi Studio, mist-o, and Zanellato/Bortotto, giving shape to furniture elements with multiple and layered functions.

The IICC participates in the 34th edition of Passagen Interior Design Week 2024, presenting OTO Chair, a chair designed by Alessandro Stabile and Martinelli Venezia. The exhibition celebrates this example of circular design, made from recycled plastic and produced from a single mold. An icon of Made in Italy, OTO Chair was selected for the ADI Design Index 2023 and is nominated for the Compasso d’Oro 2024.

The exhibition, co-curated with Patricia Urquiola and presented at Palazzo Broggi during Milan Design Week, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Cassina iMaestri Collection. The project explores the method developed by Cassina in reissuing great design classics, promoting authenticity, design culture, and a dialogue between memory and contemporaneity.

Created by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, GEN D reflects the company’s forward-looking approach to furniture, supporting young talent and building cultural bridges. The versatility of designers Ahryun Lee, Chris Wolston, Sayar&Garibeh, Lucia Massari, Malacou Lefebvre/Atelier Malak, Bradley Bowers, Sara Ricciardi, and Antonio Aricò was key in the selection process.

Buccellati Rosso Maraviglia, presented during Milan Design Week 2023 on the Portaluppi terrace of Buccellati’s Via Brisa headquarters, celebrates the encounter between Buccellati’s art of silver and the Murano glass tradition of Venini, through an installation by AMDL Circle and Michele De Lucchi and a site-specific botanical intervention by Lily Kwong.

Federica Sala developed the art advisory project for Six Senses Rome, bringing together commissioned and site-specific artworks in dialogue with the historic architecture of Palazzo Salviati Cesi Mellini and Patricia Urquiola’s interior design. Through works by Italian and international artists, the project offers a contemporary interpretation of Rome’s classical heritage.

For the Italian Capital of Culture 2023 program, Objects of Common Interest (invited to the competition by advisor Federica Sala) created a large-scale site-specific installation for Piazza della Libertà in Bergamo. The project was supported by Confindustria Bergamo and promoted by the City of Bergamo and GAMeC, the city’s Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art.

On the occasion of the Cuisine, Cinéma et Confidences Festival organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, Federica Sala’s exhibition celebrates Italy’s passion for the table through Alessi and Smeg products. The exhibition at the UQAM Design Center is open to the public from November 9, 2022, to January 20, 2023.

The exhibition reveals the possible dialogue between the Church and contemporary art, showcasing a selection of liturgical objects created by the Beato Angelico School. Featured works include pieces by Mimmo Paladino, Andrea Mastrovito, and Gio Ponti.

Organized on the 101st anniversary of Rosselli’s birth, the exhibition traces the work of one of the great masters of Italian design. It alternates between iconic pieces and original documents, showcasing a reinterpretation by ten international architectural studios of 100 Jumbo armchairs. These chairs take center stage in an auction conducted by Cambi for cultural purposes.

Monica Taverniti’s furniture collection rekindles Architecture’s long-standing obsession with the concept of measurement, resulting in a collection capable of reconciling technology and craftsmanship in the same artifact.

Fabbrica Bini hosts the Swedish feminist exhibition, creating a multilayered experience that intersects art and design. In an international convergence of synergies, the Milanese event reinforces its mission as a platform supporting women artists who disrupt the status quo and go against the mainstream.

Buccellati makes its debut at MDW 22 with an exhibition that reinterprets the Galateo in a contemporary context. The installation project by Stefano Boeri Interiors invites Dimorestudio, Ashley Hicks, Chahan Minassian, and Patricia Urquiola to interpret four historical tableware collections along with the new porcelain developed in collaboration with Ginori 1735.

The exhibition format dedicated to the relationship between architecture, art, and design, returns for its sixth edition. The event invites creators Zilla Leutenegger, Studio Ossidiana, Cino Zucchi, and Chiara Zucchi to share the space at Assab One, engaging with each other and the audience through three large participatory installations.

La mostra itinerante risale la penisola toccando luoghi storici, chiese e spazi espositivi tra Ragusa Ibla, Potenza, Varenna, Rimini e Busto Arsizio. Un esercizio di decentralizzazione creativa reso possibile dall’allestimento di Sara Ricciardi. In mostra una selezione di oggetti di uso quotidiano di dieci designer italiane in gran parte fuori dai radar.

In occasione della terza edizione di Edit Napoli, all’interno del programma Edit Cult che anima il centro storico del capoluogo campano, Federico Pepe presenta una mostra, a cura di Federica Sala, che è un dialogo totale con la città di Napoli e con gli spazi del Museo Civico Gaetano Filangeri.

The visual project, as well as an intimate and domestic diary, collects 50 shots taken during the forced isolation of 2020. Begun as a form of storytelling on Instagram, the project was later declined into a publication, eventually becoming an exhibition in the spaces of Marsèll Paradise.

An unprecedented collection of candelabras, conceived ad hoc by a series of national and international designers, is displayed in a cognitive exhibition and auctioned by Christie’s. The proceeds are entirely donated to the Mario Negri Institute, implementing scientific research against cancer.

The exhibition at Ordet presents for the first time the deep sense of Marcin Rusak’s ongoing research and development phases that characterize the designer’s collections and tests. In his work, elements such as flowers, leaves and plants are observed, analysed, reconstructed and transformed into raw material to be subsequently re-designed.

The fifth edition of the format conceived by Elena Quarestani, continues under the banner of dialogue between three authors: architecten jan de vylder inge vinck/inge vinck jan de vylder architecten, Claudia Losi and Caretto/Spagna. Three interventions speak of care and attention and another, non-invasive way of inhabiting the world.

On the occasion of the opening of the ADI Design Museum, the association is dedicating, on the centenary of its birth, a tribute exhibition to entrepreneur Giulio Castelli, among the founding fathers of the association itself and its first president. The exhibition, located in the area dedicated to the Compassi d’Oro alla Carriera, traces the salient stages of his entrepreneurial life.

An artistic research project exploring the traditional craft of glassblowing and translating implicit, bodily knowledge into digital data, experiences, and objects. The first results of the research are displayed in an exhibition in feldfünf with artists Verena Bachl, Elaine Bonavia, Babe and Wiezorek, Philipp Weber & WINT Design Lab.

Conceived as a widespread exhibition in the heart of Milan, the cultural revival and recovery project conceived by entrepreneur Lorenzo Lombardi and photographer Valentina Angeloni presents a four-way conversation between Nathalie Du Pasquier, Gianluca Malgeri with Arina Endo, Lorenzo Vitturi, and Regine Schumann.

No longer three monographic exhibitions in parallel, but a single exhibition in which Loris Cecchini, Michele De Lucchi with AMDL Circle and Pentagram, in the further expanded version of Pentagram & Friends, present their own work in relation to that of others, under the banner of interaction and above all collaboration.

Through a series of dinners, mari&cò rethinks distance as an opportunity to be able to restore meaning to emptiness. The seats at the table, which cannot be used due to social distancing, are occupied by the works of Francesca Ascione, Hillsideout, Federica Gambigliani Zoccoli, Anna Paparozzi, Raffaella Valsecchi, and Lella Zambrini.

The project, which comes to life in Cassina’s Milan showroom and catalogs, brings art, design, and architecture into dialogue, involving galleries such as Apalazzo, Depart and Renata Fabbri and artists such as Gioele Amaro, Gaetano Pesce, Agostino Iacurci, …

To mark the centenary of his birth, the Milan Triennale dedicates a major monographic exhibition, curated by Patricia Urquiola in collaboration with Federica Sala, to Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002), one of the most important masters of Italian design.

Over three editions, the last of which is in a digital format, Life in Vogue presents a dialogue between design and fashion by having a selection of designers, with unmistakable style, to interpret the spaces of the historic editorial office of Vogue Italia.

Airbnb launches the new “Casa d’artista” (“Artist’s House”) project to revalue Italian villages through site-specific interventions by artists such as Francesco Simeti, Edoardo Piermattei, Olimpia Zagnoli and Lorenzo Vitturi.

For two consecutive editions, the exhibition Ladies & Gentlemen, curated by PS and gallery Secondome, reopens a historic Milanese house in downtown (14 Via Cesare Correnti) for an unexpected dialogue between old rooms and new Italian craftsmanship.

Curating the annual exhibition of the newly formed 5VIE district to tell the state of the art of contemporary design: Max Lamb and Raw Edges at Garage Sanremo and Sabine Marcelis, Philipp Weber, Sigve Knutson, Matteo Cibic at Foyer Gorani.

The newly established Object section of the fair, initiated by Vincenzo De Bellis, includes a selection of galleries active in promoting modern and contemporary design objects conceived in limited editions and enjoyed as works of art.

Curated by Federica Sala and Michela Pelizzari (PS), Instant Design is divided into two different chapters, Edible Thoughts and Fruible Acts. Two different exhibitions, each aimed at investigating the ephemeral aspect and the very act of fruition of design.

Under the artistic direction of Francesco Bonami, Enel Contemporanea marks Enel’s entry into the world of contemporary art with a series of works created by artists such as: Bik van der Pol, Carsten Holler, Mike and Doug Starn, Toshiko Horiuchi.

The Parisian institution Centre Pompidou is dedicating an exhibition to Benetton’s creativity research center. The exhibition, curated by Marie-Laure Jousset with Federica Sala as her assistant,, will next be taken on tour to the Shanghai Art Museum, the Milan Triennale and Shiodome Italia in Tokyo.

A group show, curated by Federica Sala, about experimentation in design: vinyl by François Azambourg for Domestic, Arik Levy, Electronic Shadow, Olivier Peyricot, and ENSCI Les Ateliers students.

Monographic exhibition dedicated to the futuristic talent and communication skills of Ora Ito, often referred to as the enfant terrible of French design for his ability to make fun of the system while being within it.

The French cultural outpost in Milan entrusts Federica Sala with the curatorship of a group exhibition, among designers and manufacturers, on the theme of light in French design on the occasion of the Salone del Mobile.

The Paris institution dedicates an exhibition to the designer’s 20 years of work for Olivetti on the occasion of the donation made by Ettore Sottsass Jr. to the museum’s collection. Curated by Marie-Laure Jousset with Ivan Mietton and Federica Sala.

Curated by Marie-Laure Jousset and staged at Galerie Sud, the monographic exhibition on French designer Philippe Starck presents a dematerialized account of objects through the use of the latest video and morphing technologies.