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[April 1-13, 2025]
Milan Design Week 2025 – Creative duo Barbieri Magalini, founders of the creative consultancy MM Company, meet the Cypriot architect and furniture designer Christine Kalia. Their collaboration culminates in an installation at SPAZIO MM, located at via Maroncelli 3 in Milan, titled “Specular Oasis”. The exhibition runs from April 1st to 13th, 2025, spanning both Milan Art Week (Miart) and Milan Design Week (Salone Internazionale del Mobile).
Sound Design: Giovanni Campana
The “Specular Oasis” installation emerges as a visual paradox in the heart of the city, where a sand desert becomes the stage for an even more surreal apparition: a majestic modular sofa, seemingly inflatable, appears to float above the sand, challenging our perception of reality while creating an ever-evolving kaleidoscope of light and reflections. The sofa transcends its role as mere object to become a dimensional portal, a privileged vantage point from which to contemplate this urban mirage.
Entry into this parallel world occurs through a dreamlike portal: an organic structure that bridges the ordinary and extraordinary, inviting visitors to leave behind the solidity of the real and immerse themselves in a dimension where everything is possible, leaving ephemeral footprints in the sand, while mirrored surfaces multiply every movement, blurring the boundaries between real and imaginary.
In a world dominated by speed and concreteness, “Specular Oasis” stands as an invitation to contemplative conviviality. In this ephemeral desert in the heart of the city, each visitor leaves a weightless shadow but carries with them a fragment of eternity.
Ph. Federico Montanari
Wine partners: Monte Tondo, Bernardi Vini
