Note Design Studio made vinyl coverings noteworthy. Plus: halls of styrofoam, depots of habitable bubbles and a headless chair at the Duomo.

Milan Design Week concluded on Sunday, April 14th last week. Thereafter, installations were brought down, showrooms shuttered. But if design weeks are about brands and designers putting their most attractive foot forward to lure in clients and the crowd, then these eye-catching installations, short-lived as they are, have succeeded in their mission of creating an awareness of the people and studios behind them.
Tarkett and Magis exhibit at the Circolo Filologico with help from Swedish designers at Note Design Studio. Photo by Keshia Badalge.
Formations, inside the historic Milanese library Circolo Filologico, showcases all the ways that French floor and wall covering company Tarkett’s new iQ Surface material can be molded, bent, shaped, and used to furnish all kinds of spaces. The Stockholm-based Note Design Studio worked with Tarkett to conceive of something certainly noteworthy here: under a glass roof, in a spacious lobby, 24 speckled columns in shades of red, navy, white, and grey are topped with silver spheres, coral cubes, cones, spheres, and other assorted totems. Table with shapes exhibiting Tarkett’s moldability at the library of Circolo Filologico. Photo by Keshia Badalge.
It?s an exercise in subtle showing off: instead of exhibiting how Tarkett?s new vinyl flooring can be used in various domestic room...