Navigli Design District is the new Milanese container that will host major collective events in conjunction with the Salone Internazionale del Mobile (8/13 April).
The highlight of the NDD - which will develop between internal spaces and typical courtyards, unique views and characteristic workshops, initiatives, installations and decorations along the canals and neighborhoods - will be the settings created on the fleet of floating barges.
The layout of the barges, played by a team of architects, will offer a glimpse of a unique and unprecedented Milan, starting from water and one of the most distinctive, prepares EXPO 2015.
An Expo that will do just Navigli and the only marina, great subject of urban regeneration and that, on the issues of water, power and beauty, will send a great sign of hope to the world.
And the Navigli District will be the privileged interpreter of this message, amplifying it internationally during the days of the Salone in Milan, the world capital of Design, is preparing EXPO 2015 starting from Navigli, combining in a creative design, water and food .
ALONG THE FLEET ALZAIA (large ships, in front of the alley 'soap)
Among institutional spaces, opportunities for recreation, culture and entertainment, Navigli Design District will be a real program of initiatives and stresses that will develop around the neighborhood, including exhibitions, workshops, installations and performances.
The small fleet of three barges includes 2 exceptional references for 'design addicted' and 'design travelers', in the name of harmony on the Prestige & Nature design oasis and experimentation on the Design For Future barge.
PRESTIGE & NATURE
The barge of in & out design and good taste at 360 ° by VG CREA from 8 to 13 April 2014.
Studio VG Crea creates Prestige & Nature, an exceptional floating setting, able to coordinate and merge the selection of furniture, accessories and in & outdoor accessories of the participating brands.
Underlying theme conviviality around food - content driving EXPO 2015 - combining the best of design with the taste, making it alive and vibrant space with tastings of food, champagne and culinary demonstrations of high-level, creating scenes refined involving the 5 senses of visitors, in an exhibition frame and unique emotional and suspended, dislocated between water, floating stage and the mainland.
Numerous furnishing and accessory companies have chosen the Navigli to interpret the Fuorisalone del Mobile, offering the public a pleasant "boat" excursion: Colico Design (furnishings), Square Garden (greenhouses and covers), Livellara (vases, plates , glasses), Adriana Lohmann (lighting), Antique Mirror (glass decorations), Planet One (Food & Beverage), Fogazza (ceramics), Deco Decking (flooring).
Even the Maison GH Mumm marries the 'liquid' aesthetic of Navigli Design District and embarks on Prestige & Nature: on display the work "THE GH MUMM SABER BY ROSS LOVEGROVE", with which one of the most visionary contemporary designers reinterprets the ritual opening the champagne with the saber.
In the heart of Milan, the city at the center of the world during the Show, an event dedicated to the good taste to 360 °.
DESIGN FOR FUTURE
The barge of the trial, and the redevelopment of the landscape by Arch. Massimo Malacrida and VG CREA from the 8 13 April 2014.
An exhibition of innovative products, a hymn to the projects, a roundup of news from companies and prototypes designed by young designers. A review of selected specimens born inventiveness, research, study, and the sensitivity of companies and young designers who propose to the press and to the industry on a barge canals Design District has reserved for them.
Alongside, avant-garde proposals for restoration and recovery buildings by 7Cereali - a brand engaged in the renovation and conversion of unused agricultural properties into tourist facilities, combining agricultural knowledge and flavors with sustainable tourism development and cutting-edge design.
Still on the subject of design, Paysage propose the second edition of "The Italian garden", organizing an information and a meeting with the big names of Italian architecture green.
Design and testing, landscape and building rehabilitation, food and tourism: Design For Future becomes real hub of ideas, a striking incubator trends, solutions and innovative suggestions on the issues of the furnishings, the complement, the food, and sustainability of 'building. Among the players, new products and finishes Veins (flooring) and new lines of furniture badged Nautinox, while every evening, from the 18 20, Coldiretti will be to offer a drink to the public.
