Founded by Cesare Chichi and Stefano Maestri in 1999, 967arch is a Milan-based architecture and design studio.
For over 25 years, the studio has been working across architecture, interiors, and product design, developing projects at different scales through a structured and process-oriented approach.
967arch combines the expertise of architects and designers within a single studio, bringing together creative research and production management as part of its design methodology.
Today, the studio is composed of a team of around 30 architects, interior designers, and product designers. #967arch #Milano #Architecture #InteriorDesign #Design
At 967arch, design operates across different scales and fields, bringing together architecture, interior design, exhibition design, and product design within a single, integrated practice.
The studio develops projects through a consistent design approach, moving between spatial, functional, and material research.
Built works, interiors, exhibitions, and products are conceived as part of a continuous process, where different disciplines inform and reinforce each other. #967arch #Architecture #InteriorDesign #Design #Milano
Function and emotion are inseparable dimensions of architectural design.
At 967arch, design emerges from the integration of technical rationality, performance, and the perceptual quality of space.
Space is conceived as an efficient and flexible system, capable of responding to functional, regulatory, and environmental requirements without sacrificing the experience of those who inhabit it.
Materials, light, proportions, and spatial configuration are not secondary elements, but central design tools through which recognisable, adaptable, and durable environments are constructed.
An architecture that works, because it is designed to be lived in.
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Inside the Sala degli Archi, the exhibition path is punctuated by the works of artist Ermanno Brosio, created using fabric offcuts from Fim Umbrellas’ production.
Suspended within the vaulted space, the pieces introduce a plastic and material dimension to the installation, transforming production waste into visual presences that expand the narrative of the project.
The fabric, no longer understood only as a technical component of the umbrella, becomes a material for artistic research: folded, assembled and reinterpreted as a trace of the manufacturing process.
Brosio’s interventions establish a dialogue between industry and gesture, serial production and uniqueness, functional material and expressive form. They reveal the possibility of looking at the production chain not only through its efficiency, but also through its residues, textures and unexpected transformations.
Within La Fabbrica dell’Ombra, art becomes another way of reading the making of shade: not as a finished product, but as a process of matter, memory and construction.
Ph credits: @faustomazzastudio@fimumbrellas@ermanno.brosio #967arch #MilanoDesignWeek2026 #Milano #Design #FimUmbrellas
In the Renaissance cloister of the Biblioteca Umanistica dell’Incoronata, 967arch presents Fronda, the new parasol designed for Fim Umbrellas.
Conceived as a light and flexible shading system, Fronda is defined by an off-centre support that frees the space beneath it and allows the parasol to work in close relation with outdoor furniture, seating and domestic landscapes.
Its adjustable canopy can tilt forward and rotate 360 degrees, following the movement of the sun throughout the day and allowing shade to be shaped with precision. The internal frame defines the profile of the object and holds the fabric, which becomes both a technical and expressive element.
Fronda is designed not only for sun protection, but also for atmosphere. A rechargeable light can be magnetically attached to the internal frame and positioned as needed, transforming the parasol into a luminous presence for the evening.
With simple mechanisms, material attention and a strongly recognisable silhouette, Fronda interprets shade as an architectural condition: something that can orient, protect and give form to outdoor space.
Ph credits: @faustomazzastudio@fimumbrellas #967arch #MilanoDesignWeek2026 #Design #FimUmbrellas #Milano
In the Sala degli Archi, the story of the umbrella unfolds through its decomposition.
Metal components, profiles, screws, joints and assembly systems are arranged as a large technical exploded view, turning the finished product into a legible sequence of parts, relationships and construction details.
The installation interprets the productive world of Fim Umbrellas not only through the object itself, but through what usually remains hidden: mechanical precision, the logic of assembly, the quality of materials, and the structure that allows shade to take form.
The exploded views thus become both exhibition and narrative devices. They make the process visible, reveal the technical complexity of the umbrella, and restore the relationship between engineering, manufacturing and design.
A material atlas of the construction of shade.
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As part of La fabbrica dell’ombra, the installation designed by 967arch for Fim Umbrellas, the outdoor space is conceived as an extension of the project’s narrative.
Here, the umbrella — designed by Parisotto+Formenton — is reinterpreted as a spatial device: the new central-pole models, integrated with seating, define a sequence of urban micro-environments conceived for rest and interaction. “Feel good” micro-architectures that transform a technical element into a design tool, capable of activating public space and making it more welcoming.
The system is enhanced by the landscape design by Silvia Ghirelli, which introduces a series of green islands as vegetal thresholds. The greenery guides the path, filters the relationship with the city, and creates continuity between exterior and interior, reinforcing the idea of a temporary landscape.
An intervention where shade, furniture, and vegetation work together to define a new quality of urban space.
Ph. credits: @faustomazzastudio@fimumbrellas@parisottoformenton@ghirellisilvia #967arch #FimUmbrellas #MilanoDesignWeek2026 #Milano #Design
“Summer Sign” for the Ambience line by Fim Umbrellas reinterprets the parasol as a graphic and design surface. The canopy is defined by a pattern of small stylized umbrellas, while the traditional radial segmentation is reorganized into irregular geometries. The color fields, inspired by a seaside visual language, are distributed freely, moving beyond classical symmetry and transforming an everyday object into a contemporary, recognizable sign.
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In occasion of Milan Design Week 2026, 967arch presented La fabbrica dell’ombra, an exhibition and curatorial project for Fim at the Biblioteca Umanistica dell’Incoronata.
The intervention takes shadow as a generative element of space, reinterpreting the umbrella as an environmental and constructive device.
An articulation that translates the production process into a spatial experience, between industrial dimension and material culture.
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Looking back at a workspace designed around variety and everyday use.
Each floor shaped a different environment, supporting multiple ways of working while keeping a coherent, understated language.
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A project from our archive.
An 11-story workplace that explored the balance between a global identity and a strong local character, celebrating Italian design through a sequence of diverse atmospheres.
A reflection on how workspaces evolve and how some ideas still hold. #967arch #Milano #InteriorDesign #Architecture #Design
