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15-04-2025
- Entertainment
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What It's Like to Do an Eight-Hour Sprint Through Milan Design Week
A Ligne Roset sofa that isn't a Togo, copious cork, really big beds—and more of what Dwell's visual media producer loved in Italy. If you had just one day at design week in Milan, how would you spend it? That's the question I posed to myself when I landed in the city for its 63rd edition. The answer turned out to be: See 11 exhibitions, attend two dinners, shake upwards of 50 hands, take more than 1,100 photos, and set a new personal record for most steps taken in a day at 23,532 (Take that, Duncan Nielsen!) Between a room made entirely from cork, a maze wrapped in faux fur, and a decrepit space with loose floorboards underfoot, photographer Olga Mai and I were able to cover a lot of ground—more than eight miles worth. Here's everything we saw on Thursday last week as we zigzagged across Milan. On Thursday morning, we were off to a late start because someonemissed the train. But I was able to catch up with Olga around 10:20 just outside of Nilufar Depot, a Milanese gallery and staple of Milan Design Week that's known for its juxtapositions of older icons and newer designs. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the depot (Nilufar Gallery proper has been around since 1979), Nilufar designed its presentation to function as something of a walking theater, unfolding as five acts across its three floors. When walking through the space, it almost felt like exploring an impeccably curated vintage store, as familiar floor lamps, tables, and chairs stood against brand new designs. The effect was a fantastic tasting menu of where we've come from in furniture design, and where we might be headed. See the full story on What It's Like to Do an Eight-Hour Sprint Through Milan Design WeekRelated stories: The Most Eye-Catching Moments at Alcova Milano 2025, According to Dwell's Visuals Editor Japan 3D-Prints a Train Station in Six Hours—and Everything Else You Need to Know About This Week Will Rocket Companies's Recent Acquisitions Transform Home-buying—for the Better?
New York Times
06-04-2025
- Business
- New York Times
A Milanese Design Gallery Owner on Her 45 Years in the Business
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Few gallerists in the contemporary design sphere have the singular vision of Nina Yashar, 67. Ms. Yashar, the founder of Milan's Nilufar gallery, established in 1979, and Nilufar Depot, now marking its 10th anniversary, has long been a tastemaker in the world of collectible design. In its first two decades, the gallery was known primarily for antique carpets — Ms. Yashar's father, who had emigrated from Iran with his wife and children in 1963, similarly dealt Persian rugs. However, a pivotal trip to Stockholm in the 1990s, where she encountered the greats of Scandinavian furniture design, reoriented her curatorial approach. Shortly after, she mounted the 1998 exhibition 'Swedish Rugs and Scandinavian Furniture,' spotlighting works by Alvar Aalto, Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen. Eventually, Ms. Yashar expanded her focus beyond historical pieces, introducing contemporary designers into her fold and placing them in conversation with their midcentury predecessors. In 2007, she organized 'Gio Ponti Translated by Martino Gamper,' in which she commissioned Mr. Gamper, the Italian-born British designer who was then just emerging, to deconstruct an entire suite of Gio Ponti-designed furniture from the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Sorrento, Italy, and reassemble it into contemporary, collagelike forms, including functional tables, benches and consoles with jigsawlike facades. But it was the opening of Nilufar Depot — a former silverware factory transformed by the architect Massimiliano Locatelli to echo the tiered balconies of the opera house La Scala — that cemented her status as a major force in the design world. Each year during Milan Design Week, the Depot is a first stop for collectors and aficionados eager to discover the industry's next marquee name. Nina Yashar at Nilufar Depot in Milan. She established her first gallery in Milan in 1979, and is now a key tastemaker in the world of collectible design. Credit... Andrea Wyner for The New York Times Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
