Milan
“When you try to separate art and design you create a ghetto” – Job Smeets
The home of the future will “know where you are” – Yves Behar
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: pit stop
“We need to redesign our thinking with LED lamps” – Marcel Wanders
“Milan design week is incredibly frustrating for visitors to navigate”
“It’s easy for designers today to produce and sell their own work”
New Salone del Mobile president to tackle issues that “damage Milan”
“Young designers have no grasp of design history”
“Milan used to be a place full of farms”
“There’s a return to the commerce of the fair”
“It’s probably the most well-known place in Milan”
“It’s the most important week in the design calendar”
“I am no longer a lighting designer, I am a fashion designer” – Tom Dixon
“Young designers have given up waiting to be spotted by a big producer” – Tom Dixon
“I’m sure we had the most expensive exhibition at Milan this year” – Marcel Wanders
“It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy”
28Posti Restaurant by Francesco Faccin
OMA’s furniture collection for Knoll “turns industry into a fetish”
“An era is drawing to an end for Italian design”
“In your life, everything is integrated”
“It’s the first pair of glasses that is one component”
“Milan is a breeding ground for people who copy our products”
“Anything can happen in Milano this week”
