Frames of reality

[April 20–26 2026]

On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2026, the creative duo Barbieri Magalini with styling by Giulia Taglialatela, presents “Frames of reality”, a pop-up home poised between order and imperfection, where a scene takes shape suspended between what has just occurred and what is yet to come. A project with Bizzotto Italia, alongside The House of Lyria, cc-tapis, USM Modular Furniture, Amoraw Studio, Rowland+Broughton & NasonMoretti, FUOCOVOODOO, Reparto + J Meseguer, Lalfa Lab, Luciano Francescon and Daria Dazzan. Artworks by Paolo Fiore and a curated selection from Galleria il Vicolo.

“Frames of reality” is an installation curated by the creative duo Barbieri Magalini and produced by MM Company, exploring one of the central dimensions of their creative philosophy: the beauty of imperfection.
A home becomes truly fascinating when it achieves a harmony between eclectic design and the spontaneity of lived experience — held in a subtle tension between composition and naturalness. Each vignette presents itself as a still frame suspended in time: a fragment of everyday life balanced between past, present and future.


With this project, Barbieri Magalini translate into domestic form the creative philosophy that has long run through their work as curators and creative directors across the worlds of furniture, fashion and interior design. As with every project they undertake, everything begins with an essential question: what atmosphere do we wish to create? In “Frames of Reality”, the answer takes shape as an eclectic and imaginative environment, reflecting their distinctive approach — at once convivial and humanist. The result is an open space composed of communicating rooms conceived to host dinners, gatherings, events and symposia, and to foster dialogue — much as already happens in their manifesto-home, Casa Caleido.

“For us, the home is the place of the unfinished: a space in which to withdraw from the logic of performance and surrender to desire, curiosity, experimentation — even to boredom as a vital force of creativity. With ‘Frames of reality’ we want to continue our research into conviviality, through the telling of stories that connect people, places and objects.” Manuel Barbieri e Marco Magalini.