Milan Design Week is in full swing, and whether at the Salone del Mobile, or the Fuorisalone surrounding the fair, the design world has descended on the city to soak up inspiration for some of the very best design brands and creatives from around the world.
Milan is currently awash with installations, showrooms, and pop-ups to see, but my favorite thing to visit at Milan Design Week are the apartments. These spaces, already epic in the sense of their beautiful Milanese architecture, are taken over and decorated during Design Week and often beyond, and open to the public, too. There's something particularly inspiring about seeing the ideas surfacing at the event played out in situ, as it were. Where sometimes installations have a 'stand-and-stare' sense to them, these apartments and salons put you in amongst the design, giving you a real sense of the effect the colors, materials, and forms have on the space.
