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Highlights: Salone del Mobile Milano 2023
This year’s Salone del Mobile Milano brought together a wide range of installations, debuts, and collaborations from across the worlds of design, fashion, and architecture. We present a selection of these projects.
Cristián Mohaded: Apacheta
Argentinian designer and artist Cristián Mohaded has been collaborating with Loro Piana Interiors to produce an installation and collection of furniture pieces inspired by apachetas, piles of stones that mark paths and passes in the Andes. Debuting during Salone del Mobile Milano 2023 inside the Cortile della Seta, at Loro Piana’s Milanese headquarters—where it will be on view from April 20 to 23—the project will encourage visitors to reflect on travel, materiality, and the relationship between humans and the earth. Mohaded met with the Quarterly’s Wyatt Allgeier in the weeks leading up to the unveiling to discuss Apacheta.
Incontri: Paolo Roversi and Poliform
Poliform, an Italian furniture brand, has launched a communication project called Incontri that aims to broaden the company’s reach to new forms of expression. In the first chapter of the project, Poliform collaborated with Paolo Roversi, a renowned contemporary photographer, to create a series of photographs showcasing the souls of both design objects and human subjects. Here, Poliform CEO Giovanni Anzani speaks with the Quarterly’s Wyatt Allgeier about the partnership.
Iwa Sake and Kura
As part of the artist’s guest-edited special section for the Spring 2023 issue of the Quarterly, Marc Newson reflects with IWA Sake founder Richard Geoffroy and architect Kengo Kuma on their respective contributions to IWA Sake in Japan: bottle, brewing, and building. The sake brewery, or kura in Japanese, takes its name from its site of Shiraiwa, located in the town of Tateyama.
The Art of Biography: Paradise Now: The Extraordinary Life of Karl Lagerfeld
William Middleton’s forthcoming biography of Karl Lagerfeld, Paradise Now, comes as a major follow-up to his lauded history of Dominique and John de Menil, Double Vision, from 2018. Here, curator Michael Cary speaks with Middleton about the challenges, strategies, and revelations that went into telling the story of this larger-than-life visionary in the world of fashion and the culture at large.
Fashion and Art: Madonna’s Sex and Saint Laurent Rive Droite
This year’s edition of Art Basel Miami Beach brought Saint Laurent to America for a special exhibition curated by creative director Anthony Vaccarello celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Madonna’s groundbreaking book, Sex (1992). Staged on the Miami beachfront, the ephemeral exhibition was presented on the occasion of the reissue of Sex by Rive Droite and Callaway, New York, and featured large-format prints of Steven Meisel’s iconic photographs from the book, as well as unpublished images from the original photo shoots. Rennie McDougall reflects on the momentous impact of the publication, tracing Madonna’s ongoing influence on and provocation of popular culture.
Fashion and Art: Pieter Mulier
Pieter Mulier, creative director of Alaïa, presented his second collection for the legendary house in Paris in January 2022. After the presentation, Mulier spoke with Derek Blasberg about the show’s inspirations, including a series of ceramics by Pablo Picasso, and about his profound reverence for the intimacy and artistry of the atelier.
Fashion and Art: Rick Owens
Derek Blasberg speaks with fashion designer Rick Owens, the American-born, Paris-based director of the eponymous brand, about his influences from the worlds of art and music, growing up without a television, and the sinister pleasures of the museum.
Fashion and Art: La Galerie Dior
As part of the renovation of the Dior flagship at 30 Montaigne, Paris, the brand has added a permanent space, La Galerie Dior, for the exhibition of archival documentation and clothing from the house’s history. The Quarterly’s Wyatt Allgeier met with Nathalie Crinière, the scenographer behind this presentation, to learn more about the project.