Milan’s weather was colder than I thought for the first week. My first impression about Italy is that I was surprised how Argentina has so many similarities with Italy. Since Italian immigrants were one of the largest and central ethnic group for modern Argentinians; the food, the culture and the language here are very related to where I lived for most of my life, Buenos Aires. There is a lot of cultural heritage to discover in Italy. The first week was overwhelming for me: climbing to the rooftop of the Duomo, visiting Fondazione Portaluppi, Fondazione Prada, several concept stores, Arch week, etc.
One of the first things that we’ve done in Milan was the visit to Gallery Rossana Orlandi. I didn’t know her until the day when we visited the gallery. So apparently, Rossana Orlandi is a private collector who has an innovative gallery to show her passion and ideas about design and lifestyle. The gallery had broken the traditional way to present design art pieces. Instead, they were displayed all together with different types of products.
When we got to the Rossana Orlandi Gallery, there were several brochures left from the Milan Design Week that we’ve missed. The courtyard was also messy since the Milan Design Week also just ended two weeks ago. But step into the showrooms was a different experience.
Rossana Orlandi focused her collections on young designer’s works. The use of different materials varies from the classic ones such as wood to today’s industrialized materials like glasses, metal or plastic. Material’s textures were one of the things that I was fascinated with:
So the first week in Milan was both excited and exhausted, but all worth it.
Picture of the week
