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Best
Design
Milan today is home to all the major design showrooms and the site of an endless
round of influential international design fairs, and continues to be a centre of
design education and publishing. Design here isn't merely functional (although the
modernist ideal of creating useful objects is always at its core); it is also suffused
with emotion: expressive, inventive, humorous and individual.
Who's Who
A visit to the Design Museum at the Triennale (
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) is a wonderful way to
pay homage to the work of Italy's best and brightest. May of these called, or con-
tinue to call, Milan home. The names to watch out for include Giò Ponti, Bruno
Munari, Piero Fornasetti, Enzo Mari, the Castiglioni brothers, Gaetano Pesce,
Mario Bellini, Gae Aulenti, Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini.
Best Design Inspiration
Triennale di Milano
Museum, educational facility and showroom, the Triennale
has championed design since the 1930s. (
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)
Studio Museo Achille Castiglioni
Tour the studio of one of Italy's most influential
20th-century designers. (
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)
Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia
Contains a vast and in-
triguing collection, including models of da Vinci's machines. (
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)
Design Library
Flick through pages of classic designs in back issues of
Domus
,
Abitare
and
Ottogono
. (
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)
Fiera Milano
Venue of the Furniture Fair, Fuksas' glass-and-steel sail is an archi-
tectural wonder in itself. (
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)
