Design Milk has taken a taste of Milan Design Week + rounded up a portion of some of the week?s most standout sources of inspiration.

Ciao from Milano! Milan Design Week 2021 has officially commenced, but the flavor of its presentations will stay on our palates seasons-wide. With exhibitions spread across the city in showrooms, industrial sites, galleries, street-corner pop-ups, gardens, museums, and the most opulent of palazzos, we?ve taken a taste of it all and rounded up a bite-sized portion of some of the week?s most standout sources of inspiration.
Artist Fernanda Uribe?s powerhouse vase ?Penelope? steals the stage within the 1000 Vases exhibit.
?Penelope? struts onto the scene with her hands on her hips, holding her own beside 999 other objet by designers from across the globe. She is one of Brooklyn-based visual artist Fernanda Uribe?s trio of functional sculptures presented for the Superstudio Design Show?s 1000 Vases exhibition. Envisioned as a snakecharmer-matriarch character complete with an emblematic ouroboros backside, ?Penelope? represents an exploration of the artist?s own identity: Uribe?s Mexican-Cuban heritage is a conceptual through line in all of her multidisciplinary works, and holistically feeds into the magical realism storytelling the artist injects into ? and evokes with ? each of her stoneware figures. Rio Kobayashi?s shapes-tastic room divider for his Shoji Collection, which debuted at supersalone
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