Carlo Nason, Nanda Vigo and Carlo De Carli: three designers, intellectuals and masters of design and vision finally on display at Milan Design Week 2025.
Milan Design Week is not just about new furniture and evocative and stimulating installations. The week of the Salone del Mobile is also and above all an occasion to celebrate the figures who have had vision, genius and courage applied to projects determined to cross that boundary line that separates the predictable from the unexplored. Three exhibitions located around the city finally celebrate them: Carlo Nason master of Murano glass and light, Nanda Vigo eclectic designer and Carlo De Carli, Milanese, architect, designer and university professor at the Polytechnic, whose work is to be rediscovered. To be marked in the agenda, before it is too late.
Carlo De Carli Corollary, on display at the Polytechnic
The architect Carlo De Carli in Sardinia in 1950; From the Carlo De Carli Archive Cassina chair, Compasso D’oro 1954; the project for the Franzi store in Milan in 1946 (Carlo De Carli Archive)
Carlo De Carli Corollario – scheduled until May 7, 2025 at the Politecnico di Milano – is the first retrospective that exhaustively investigates the work of Carlo De Carli, one of the protagonists of Italian architecture and design in the post-war period. Through an exceptional selection of original materials, many of which are unpublished, it restores the value of a multifaceted author who, among other things, in 1954 was the winner of the first Compasso d’Oro established by Gio Ponti in that very year. From April 10, the exhibition is enriched by the screening of Ascensio , a film by the artist Antonio Rovaldi dedicated to the Milanese church of Sant’Ildefonso built with innovative solutions by De Carli in the mid-fifties. In via Ampère 2.
Nanda Vigo Sinecdoche at the Fabbrica del Vapore
Portrait of Nanda Vigo (ph. Gabriele Basilico). The Blue House Milan, 1967-71 (ph Carla De Benedetti). Atrium of the Palazzo dell’Arte, performance Franco Mazzucchelli at the XV Triennale in 1973 (ph. Laura Salviati)
At Fabbrica del Vapore, from 7 to 13 April, Sineddoche is the exhibition dedicated to the work of the master of light Nanda Vigo . Curated by Giampiero Bosoni, Mariella Brenna, Maria Fratelli and Francesca Picchi, the exhibition project retraces her career through furnishings and documents from the Archivio Eredi Nanda Vigo donated to CASVA, the Center for Advanced Studies on the Visual Arts and the Municipality of Milan, in an installation that also offers an intimate glimpse of her studio. In via Procaccini 4.
Handle with care. Carlo Nason glass designer on display at FRAGILE
Pendant lamps on display in the FRAGILE space (Ph. Nicola Galli).
Handle with care opened on April 2. Carlo Nason glass designer, the exhibition at the spaces of FRAGILE, a gallery of historical and contemporary design led by Alessandro Padoan and Alessandro Palmaghini, a point of reference for home decoration and collecting for 25 years. The exhibition brings together around one hundred lamps and objects by the Italian Venetian designer, known above all for his creations of luminous objects in Murano glass, and is part of the broader plan to rediscover and enhance personalities who have been able to reinterpret design and light in new ways. Until June 6th in via Simone D’Orsenigo 27.