038 | MIL AN DESIGN WEEK REVIEW | DESIGN DESTIN ATIONS
The 2022 installation, created in collaboration with Studio Salaris and with the participation of more than 80 brand partners, was unveiled during the long-awaited Milan Design Week. The exhibit questioned "How will we inhabit the spaces of the future?" and "Will limits between private and working spaces still exist?" Archiproducts Milano looked to the future to explore new answers to the same big questions. The furnishings, solutions and ideas in the new exhibition transformed the 15 rooms at Archiproducts in via Tortona 31 into possible visions of living in the future. A unique experience of materials, colours and hybrid elements, the installation portrayed design as an ecosystem, a synthesis of energies, forms, and worlds that are different yet in constant dialogue with each other. References to landscapes and natural elements alternate with urban imagery, dematerialised technology, and solutions that explored new ways of living and sharing spaces. In Future Habit(at), nature met the city through the plays of colour and finishes by La Calce del Brenta, and through the textures with urban imagery of rugs and textiles that personalised the Cocoon spaces. Once again, each room expressed a character and an atmosphere. Corridors and staircases evoked vegetation anticipating the leap into the green heart of via Tortona 31. An outdoor space where plants, lighting, and furnishings created a situation of relaxation and respite. Future Habit(at) spoke of materials, surfaces, and tactile experiences and, at the same time, immersed its visitors
in dreamlike settings. Future living redesigned spaces and uses, creating situations of concentration and isolation as ideal occasions for sharing. The SilentLab islands created an intimate oasis within shared environments. BuzziSpace offered colourful solutions for acoustic protection and playful furnishings and lighting for shared spaces. The Design Experience at Archiproducts Milano was also technology. BTICINO integrated home automation systems redefined the relationship between systems and people in a domestic space, while Japanese brand mui Lab fused technology and nature with wood IoT interfaces. Samsung proposed solutions that look at sustainability through the care for air quality and antiwaste functions. At Future Habit(at), Archiproducts Milano continued its investigation into new lifestyles and added art to its imagery. Interactive luminous paintings and wallpapers designed by young artists, geometrically inspired shapes and games personalised and embellished walls with suspended volumes. Lighting pieces throughout from brands Ambientec, Astro Lighting, bomma, Cameron Design House, d’Armes, Lladró, Midgard Licht, and Vistosi added style and ambience to each of the rooms and demonstrated useable high-quality design. www.archiproducts.com
