That's it for this year!

I hope you'll enjoy the virtual visit which starts underneath this post, that's all for now folks, hope to see even more of it, and of you, next year!
Many thanx and congrats to everyone who worked hard as hell to bring those events and parties or were simply there to make it so pleasant once again this year. So special bigups to Antoine, Sara, Luca, Manfredi@Daze, Claudio, Claudia, Brice, Elena, Laura and everyone@DimensionN, Magamadda, Gianlu, Stefano, Fabio, Martino, Rufus, everybody@Balestra Berlin, Micaela and her english designers friends, Luca, Pilooski, Chiara and Alexis @Uovo, etc...best things to you all, catch you later!













picture by Magamadda

SATURDAY 19th APRIL

We dedicated Saturday to first picking up a bike for my french host, then to visiting the VIA exhibition at the Triennale Museum with Antoine, who has already been invited in the last 2 previous years by this french institution, born to help young designers get in touch with the industry needs and thus providing new ideas on a quite experimental ground. Then saw some Karim Rashid's graphic designs, half way between new rave and psychedelic extravaganza, before aiming to the bar outside the museum to sit underneath the huge floral reproductions of some of Stark's main pieces designed for Kartel.
Then Saturday night, we all gathered at the Elita Festival Headquarter in via Montenero, where Pilooski from the DIRTY SoundSystem delighted an enchanted crowd with a killer funky mix after a mediocre warm up by your host.
It all ended up in Montegani 6, and i'll use the opportunity to greet our night guests, they know who they are!

FRIDAY 18th APRIL

Then began the visit of the FuoriSalone, in the Zona Tortona area.
I'll restrain my comments to some pictures, since it looked somehow obvious that there was no real innovations this year. Only the main brands like Tom Dixon, Marcel Wanders , Mooi etc were present inside the Superstudio warehouses, and we all felt like it was definitely lacking of some fresh ideas by smaller brands and studios.
Was it the increasing of the costs of the spaces rental that limited the presence of the usual creativity we were used to seeing, or is it the global oil crisis that weighted on this year's fair, this I can't tell, not being part of the business, but it seems one again that cyclic renewal in design trends only happens every two/three years.
Later on that friday, rain started pourring over the city, and thus partying came as a secondary priority, while drying our clothes and selves became a primary one!