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ALCOVA MILANO 2026 / 20-26 APRIL / THANK YOU FOR YOUR VISIT Alcova Milano 2026 has come to a close. For seven days, from April 20 to 26, Baggio Military Hospital and Villa Pestarini came alive with the presence of more than 130 exhibitors and the thousands of visitors who moved through them. Throughout the week, Alcova became a temporary condition of attention, an invitation to look differently at what surrounds us, and at the many ways in which contemporary design continues to question how we live, build, produce, and imagine. From the morning light entering Albini’s rationalist interiors to the overgrown silences of the former hospital, from the continuous circulation of visitors between installations, garden pauses, and convivial moments around the bar to the exchanges generated by talks, workshops, and conversations, and finally to the nocturnal energy of VOCLA within the hangars, each layer contributed to the sense of a place in constant activation: an ephemeral city taking shape, and with it, a community gathering around design. To everyone who made this possible and shared this week with us, thank you. See you for our first Mexico City edition in February 2027! Video credits @francesco.mancin @corradjno Cover image @luigi_fiano @ardesia_coco

ALCOVA MILANO 2026 / 20-26 APRIL
/VILLA PESTARINI /BAGGIO MILITARY HOSPITAL

/ LUISA CASTIGLIONI. HOUSE IN PROGRESS BY BOCCAMONTE

“Luisa Castiglioni. Houses in Progress”, curated by Davide Fabio Colaci with scientific consultancy by Alessandro Benetti, presents Boccamonte, a design platform that brings together and highlights the rich and multifaceted legacy of Luisa Castiglioni, a 20th-century architect and designer, through archival work, research, and design development. The exhibition offers a first look at a selection of furniture pieces: a table and trestles designed by Luisa Castiglioni in 1963, alongside two lamps created today as a contemporary echo of Boccamonte’s architecture and spaces. @boccamonte 
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ALCOVA MILANO 2026 / 20-26 APRIL /VILLA PESTARINI /BAGGIO MILITARY HOSPITAL From Villa Pestarini to Baggio Military Hospital, this year’s edition moves across two different atmospheres: an intimate Rationalist villa opening for the first time, and a raw, layered military hospital complex spanning over 2.5 hectares of indoor and outdoor space. 130+ exhibitors, between international designers, schools, and galleries. Walk it, explore it, get lost in it. Video credits @francesco.mancin @corradjno Cover image @luigi_fiano @ardesia_coco

At Nilufar Via della Spiga, La Casa Magica opens as a suspended domestic landscape, where the language of design meets ritual, symbolism, and belief. Curated by Valentina Ciuffi (@valentinaciuffi ) with creative direction by Studio Vedèt (@studiovedet ) and set design by Space Caviar (@spacecaviar ) the exhibition returns the home to its most archaic and visionary dimension: not simply a place of dwelling, but a space of protection, imagination, and symbolic power. Its opening took shape through a choreography of encounters, impressions, and shared wonder, animating the space with a rarefied yet deeply human energy. A house of symbols, stories, and quiet transformations; where the domestic becomes, once again, a form of enchantment. Also present, Le Pied-à-terre Cosmopolite and Lumiac by Andrea Mancuso (@andreamancuso_studio ) broaden this world through further imagined interiors. LA CASA MAGICA On view at Nilufar Via della Spiga 32, Milan

ANNOUNCING ALCOVA MEXICO CITY 2027 During yesterday’s press conference marking the opening of Alcova Milano, founders Valentina Ciuffi and Joseph Grima also unveiled an important new chapter for the platform. After eight years of inhabiting and reactivating sites across Milan, from abandoned factories and military hospitals to modernist villas and industrial ruins, Alcova will expand internationally with its first Latin American edition, set to launch in Mexico City during Art Week 2027. In the vibrant Juárez neighbourhood of Mexico City, Alcova will activate a 1930s building with the support of Proyectos Públicos, alongside the opening of the modernist Casa Reforma by Francisco Artigas, extending into a wider network of site-specific interventions across the city. THURSDAY 23 APRIL / TALK / 3 PM / HANGAR 2 To deepen the exploration of this new chapter, a public talk with Alcova founders Valentina Ciuffi and Joseph Grima will take place on April 23 at 15:00, at Alcova’s Baggio Military Hospital venue, in the spaces of VOCLA, HANGAR 2. Joining the founders will be key figures connected to the Mexico City edition, including Pepe Islas, founder of Proyectos Públicos, and Francisco Acuña, co-founder of Piacere, as well as voices tied to the Mexican and Latin American design scene. Among them Maria Dolores Uribe, founder of UNNO Gallery, the platform dedicated to contemporary Latin American collectible design, and Daniele Lora, co-founder and creative director of the Italian company cc-tapis, which in the last years took part in Mexico City Art Week with a series of activations and site-specific projects. Also participating are designers from the Mexican scene such as Adrián Cruz, whose work in resin and onyx bridges his Mexican heritage with European architectural training, and Carmen Aréchiga. @proyectospublicos @piacere_mx @daniele__lora @cc_tapis @unno.gallery @adriancruzelements @car_arechiga

ALCOVA MILANO 2026 / 20 - 26 APRIL /BAGGIO MILITARY HOSPITAL /VILLA PESTARINI Alcova is officially open! Come visit us and get to know the work of over 130 international designers thoughout our locations. / BAGGIO MILITARY HOSPITAL 11AM—7PM / LAST ENTRY AT 6PM / VILLA PESTARINI 10AM-7PM / LAST ENTRY AT 6:30 PM Pics: @luigi_fiano & @ardesia_coco

For Milan Design Week, Nilufar presents ‘La Casa Magica. Forms of Re-enchantment, Symbols, Beliefs, and Archetypes of the Domestic’, curated by Valentina Ciuffi (@valentinaciuffi ) with creative direction by Studio Vedèt (@studiovedet ) and set design by Space Caviar (@spacecaviar ). The exhibition brings together works from diverse geographical and cultural contexts, exploring ritual, symbols, and the home as a site of re-enchantment. Rooted in the ongoing dialogue between Nina Yashar (@ninayashar ) and Valentina Ciuffi, the project reflects a shared curatorial vision where research, narrative, and visual identity converge. Beyond folkloric or ethnographic echoes, the objects come alive as vessels of meaning and effective magical devices, activating the domestic space as a threshold between memory, imagination, and belief. Swipe left to discover the featured designers. ON VIEW FROM 21 APRIL 2026 Mon — Sun 10AM — 7PM Nilufar Viale della Spiga 32, Milan REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN Book your visit on Nilufar website via the link in bio

ALCOVA MILANO 2026/ 20-26 APRILE/ COMING SOON From April 20–26, 2026, Alcova returns for its eleventh edition, unfolding across two extraordinary sites. Alcova’ll be opening up new, previously unseen areas of the Baggio Military Hospital to the public and activating the legendary Villa Pestarini by Franco Albini, the only villa designed by the great pioneer of Italian rationalist architecture in Milan. Tickets are now available at the link in bio. We look forward to welcoming you to Alcova Milano 2026! Video @francesco.mancin @corradjno Art Direction @studioved èt

La Casa Magica: Forms of Re-enchantment, Symbols, Beliefs, and Archetypes of the Domestic. An exhibition that restores to the house its original dimension: a ritual place, a machine of meaning, a device for protection and for the re-activation of the world. It brings together design objects that, coming from different geographical and cultural contexts, engage with ritual, with the power of “believing,” and with the archetypes of the house. The objects collect and tell stories, but not only that—they become effective magical devices: not simple folkloric quotation or ethnographic reference, but also contemporary techniques of re-enchanting inhabited space. Presented by Nilufar under the curation of Valentina Ciuffi during Milan Design Week 2026. @valentinaciuffi @studiovedet @spacecaviar ON VIEW FROM 21 APRIL 2026 Nilufar Via della Spiga 32, Milan REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN Book your visit on Nilufar website through the link in bio Video: @mattiacossi

ALCOVA MILANO/ 20-26 APRIL 2026 APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN From April 20–26, 2026, Alcova returns for its eleventh edition. The project takes place across two sites, opening previously unseen areas of the Baggio Military Hospital to the public and activating the legendary Villa Pestarini by Franco Albini, the only villa designed by the great pioneer of Italian rationalist architecture in Milan. Applications are open. To apply, contact us at [email protected]

Last day to visit “Craft is a Verb”. Come by at Hall 6.1, Messe Frankfurt. @heimtextil 📷 @melinaleibbrand

Installation views from this year’s Heimtextil Trend Arena, curated by Alcova. Architectural design by Space Caviar Graphic identity by Studio Vedèt You still have time to visit “Craft is a Verb” at Hall 6.1, Messe Frankfurt, until Friday. Come meet us onsite, we’re giving lectures and public tours everyday. @heimtextil 📷 @kasap.rocky