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SECOND NATURE • On a wild 130-acre estate outside the medieval village of Roccalbegna, Crosby Studios reimagines a 17th-century Tuscan farmhouse by illuminating its past and blending it with a contemporary gleam.

IN FINE DETAIL • Place and time are at the heart of this 1960s Milanese apartment redesign, where bespoke additions to its mid-century bones create a simpatico chemistry.

WELL FOUND

DESIGN VOICES • Milan-based Australian writer Alexia Petsinis speaks with five designers and duos behind some of the most seminal brand collaborations and presentations at Milan Design Week 2026.

STUDIOPEPE • To mark 20 years of their international architecture and interior design practice, Studiopepe founders Arianna Lelli Mami and Chiara Di Pinto returned to their original headquarters with an interior installation titled The Intimacy. An ode to creativity as a “lived” experience, the project was a multisensory interior landscape that expressed Studiopepe’s emotionally textured design language.

GIAMPIEROTAGLIAFERRI • Working between Los Angeles and Milan, designer Giampiero Tagliaferri’s cinematic approach to form continues to define his ongoing collaboration with Minotti. Rooted in references to Californian modernism, the visual language of the 1970s and ’90s, and reflections on future ways of living, his latest designs for the Italian company explore the dialogue between structure and softness, restraint and sensuality. Tagliaferri reflects on the unexpected origins of his relationship with Minotti, the architectural thinking behind pieces such as the Orion sofa and Brutalist table, and his belief that furniture should always exist within a broader cultural landscape.

VALENTINA CAMERANESI SGROI • Milan-based independent creative director and designer Valentina Cameranesi Sgroi has always been intrigued by the transformative qualities of glass. Invited by Gallotti&Radice to design a piece for its 70thanniversary exhibition, Tales in Glass, the designer’s Arcipelago side tables combine heritage-inspired elements from the company’s archive with her evocative approach to storytelling through colour, texture and detail.

DAVID/NICOLAS • Opening their Milan project space for the first time during Milan Design Week, the international design studio david/nicolas, founded by David Raffoul and Nicolas Moussallem, presented the installation La Boiserie. Equally decorative and functional—a balance the pair has been refining for the past ten years—the artisanally crafted timber-panelling ‘system’ responds to diverse contemporary living spaces and lifestyles. A new chapter in the studio’s material language, La Boiserie reimagines traditional woodwork through a present-day architectural lens.

PAOLA NAVONE • Collaborating with Baxter to design leather furniture collections for more than two decades, Paola Navone has redefined the application and impact of leather in residential living spaces. Navone’s leather sofas, armchairs and beds prioritise comfort without compromising aesthetics, as exemplified by the two new collections she designed for Baxter: the Chicago fabric sofa and Ginevra bed, presented at the Baxter Cinema flagship during Milan Design Week.

SILVER LINING • In Toorak House 2, Lucy Bock Design Studio works at the intersection of Art Deco restoration and contemporary integration. The kitchen forms part of this modern intervention, with bold forms, monolithic surfaces and resolved detailing set against the understated presence of integrated Sub-Zero Wolf appliances.

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