i Saloni and Milan Design Week 2017

by Robert Beck | April 17th, 2017

In the design world, April in Milan can means Salone del Mobile di Milano and Milan Design Week. This year Salone took place from Tuesday the 4th through Sunday the 9th, and I was lucky enough to be there! I arrived a couple of days early – I didn’t want to start the show feeling jet lagged. On Sunday I had an opportunity to join many others at the Castello Sforzesco to admire Michelangelo’s unfinished Pietà Rondanini among other treasures of the Castello’s museums and galleries. It was Milan Marathon Day, and while several thousand ran, I strolled; while they gulped a mouthful of water, I enjoyed a leisurely beer in one of the courtyards of the Castello. Choices!   As you all know, Salone is enormous. It was enormous before it moved to new, larger digs in the Milan suburb of Rho. And it was enormous before its gravity attracted …