The 5Vie District proposes the theme at the Fuorisalone 2024 Unlimited design orchestrawhich declines design in every possible shape and color, but also in every possible tradition, from the Italian one to that of the most remote countries in the world. Via Cesare Correnti 14 it is home to one of the main installations of the district, which brings the East to Milan. Between musical furnishings, canvases woven on the loom, ceramic tiles and unexpected tastings of coffee and chocolate, India and Japan take over this corner of Milan, bringing distant sounds and colours.
The courtyard of the nineteenth-century building in Via Cesare Correnti 14 hosts Duetti, musical garden furniture that can not only be enjoyed but also listened to while producing relaxing sounds for our rest to the rhythm of our movements. The furnishings introduce an Indian “mini supermarket”, created by the Indian designer Gunjan Gupta, which represents accessible luxury design in the form of twenty-one handcrafted artefacts displayed in 18th-century wooden shelves. The exhibition is in fact entitled Ikkis, which in Hindi means “twenty-one”, with reference to the 21st century as well as the symbolism linked to this number. Some of the designer’s creations can be purchased on site.
Next to the mini supermarket of Indian design opens up a world of fabrics produced in an atmosphere of times gone by. Also in this case, ancient shelves form the backdrop to canvases produced on the spot with an ancient Japanese weaving technique, of which one can be a spectator in real time thanks to the craftswoman who, shielded by glass, makes her expert fingers travel between textures and warps created on an ancient loom.
Japan accompanies us upstairs, where the Japanese tile brand Danto presents its first two collections designed by in Milan Studio Teruhiro Yanagihara and from India Mahdavi in the setup Alternative Artefacts Danto. An essential installation that winds through the ancient rooms of the palace, whose not excellent state of conservation actually acts as a suggestive backdrop to the essentiality of the shapes and colors of the ceramics. One room in particular is the setting for a curious and unexpected tasting of delicious Japanese coffee and chocolate which, if possible, imprints even more in the memory the sensorial experience of a corner of the East in the heart of Milan.
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