Every year I go to Milan not to see everything but to see what I can't unsee. The best things at design week aren't in the official program — they're in the courtyards, the off-sites, the apartment shows where someone placed one perfect thing in a room and let it breathe.
This year I spent most of my time at Alcova, in the former military hospital in Inganni. The scale of that building does something to objects — it makes you see them differently when they're surrounded by decay and light instead of white walls.
I'm interested in the overlap between what designers make and what the earth makes. A travertine table and a raw crystal specimen come from the same place. The best rooms I saw in Milan understood that.
More from this trip coming soon.