For Salone del Mobile, Milan’s Ginori Flagship Exalts Gio Ponti

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For Salone del Mobile, Milan’s Ginori Flagship Exalts Gio Ponti

From 1923 to 1933, ubiquitous Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti held the title of artistic director at the historic porcelain producer Ginori 1735. Under Ponti’s direction, the Florence-based heritage brand introduced several lasting designs, including the interlocked patterning of Catene and the mazelike geometries of Labirinto, which have been released in new shades this month. To further celebrate their intertwined legacies, Ginori has also reissued Ponti’s figurative Arte collection in limited edition.

For Catene, which debuted in 1927, and Labirinto, also released in the ‘20s, this Milan Design Week refresh introduces Ebano brown and Cachemire beige patterns, both of which are complemented by gold threading. These colors, inspired by Milanese interiors, adorn plates and saucers, trinket boxes, tea cups, platters, and more. The Arte collection, however, offers something unexpected. In 1928, Ponti unveiled hollowed porcelain discs hand-painted with iconography—from ornate skeleton keys to angelic figures in embrace. These circular totems return, as do fine white porcelain hands painted in pure gold, inspired by Ponti’s Fattucchiera’s Hand, now housed in the Museo Ginori in Sesto Fiorentino.

For Salone del Mobile, Ginori transformed the entirety of their Milan flagship into an homage to Ponti, displaying these new pieces for the first time.—David Graver

SAVOR
A Grande Dame of the Cannes Croisette Has a Glamorous New Beach Club

As the French Riviera springs back to life for the season, one of the Croisette’s most established hospitality destinations—Hotel Barrière Le Majestic—will greet guests with a glamorous new addition. This week, the storied address fêted the opening of Le Ciro’s: Le Majestic’s waterfront yacht-inspired beach club and restaurant. Loungers set atop a teak terrace overlook the pristine waters of the Côte d’Azur, where guests can partake in Mediterranean delicacies from chef Gabriella Stocker and executive pastry chef Nicolas Maugard. Whether it’s a delectably in-season basket of tropical fruits, or Cannes’ own fruits de mer,  visitors are surely in for a treat this summer.—Jenna Adrian-Diaz

VISIT
An Italian Fragrance House Makes Itself at Home on Rue Saint-Honoré

For its newest boutique in the first arrondissement of Paris, Acqua di Parma tapped veteran hospitality designer Dorothée Meilichzon. The boutique features arches, terracotta tiles, and custom wood columns shaped like the brand’s Colonia bottle, integrating classic Italian forms into a Parisian framework. A lemon-colored lacquered table with sculpted citrus halves anchors the bath and body area, while parchment lamps and lemon-peel-inspired furniture nod to the brand’s olfactory roots. Parlapiano, a quiet zone within the store, offers a platform for emerging artists with a rotating roster of fine and decorative arts showcases. Its first, an exhibition of ceramics by Antonio Fratantoni, opened earlier this month in conjunction with PAD Paris Design before moving to Milan as part of the brand’s presence at Salone del Mobile.—J.A.D.

REFRESH
Postcard Teas Debuts a Signature Tea Blend for Loewe, Fiori e Sapori

Twenty-five artists, designers, and architects developed tea pots for Loewe’s 2025 Salone del Mobile collection—on view now in Milan’s Palazzo Citterio. These pieces range from colorful works of whimsy to architectural vessels and even a trio modeled after animals, with immense diversity in materials and textures. Coupled with these creations, London-based tea specialists Postcard Teas developed Fiori e Sapori (Flowers and Flavours), a signature blend for Loewe that weaves together gold tipped Assam tea with French lemon verbena, Moroccan roses, Croatian camomile, and bergamot oil from Calabria. The refreshing black tea, developed over the course of a year, is available exclusively from the Postcard Teas website and their London boutique. The collaboration, as well as the tea pots and Loewe’s new tin-plated tea caddies developed with Kyoto’s Kaikado, affirm the Spanish luxury house’s commitment to craft.—D.G.

OBSESS
Everyone at Milan Design Week Wanted to Buy the Muji Tiny Home

Although it’s only an installation open to the public during Milan Design Week, Parisian studio 5∙5’s “manifesto house” for Muji—installed in Pippa Bacca, a secret garden in the Brera Design District—is a functional, modular home proof of concept. Drawn to its energy-efficiency, bio-sourced materials, rainwater recuperation system, and recycled textiles, so many guests touring the concise design experience have enquired about purchasing one that it might make sense as a next step in the collaboration. Studio 5∙5’s co-founders, Claire Renard and Jean-Sébastien Blanc, not only succeeded in distilling an orderly Japanese architectural aesthetic, they’ve also repurposed several preexisting Muji products for use as structural attributes. Designed as a series of interchangeable prefabricated modules, each with one function, the micro-home even comes complete with a deep, wooden soaking tub and an exterior garden.—D.G.

SHOP
A Fashion-Forward Running Capsule is a Sleek Ode to Noguchi and Miyake

It’s no secret that New York City-based running apparel label Bandit loves a reference: to streetwear, fashion week runways, Tokyo’s café culture, and all manner of furniture, lighting, and sound design from the ‘80s. Its latest drop, a shoe and apparel collaboration with Asics, centers two late greats of design: Isamu Noguchi and Issey Miyake. For Bandit’s take on Asics’ Novablast 5 performance running shoe, a semi translucent upper and textural eyelet detailing are intentional references to the Noguchi’s relationship to form and light while its pleated tongue is a subtle evocation of Issey Miyake’s signature technique. Micro-striped patterning across the accompanying capsule collection of sun sleeves, compression shorts, and race day-ready cropped compression tops offers a summer-ready take on the Novablast’s pleated detailing.—J.A.D.

SEE
At the Whitney, Amy Sherald’s First Major Museum Survey

A full week ahead of its public opening, the Whitney Museum of American Art’s most ardent supporters came out for not one but two nights in celebration for Amy Sherald’s “American Sublime.” Highlights of Sherald’s survey exhibition include in the survey exhibition, whose highlights include her portraits of former First Lady Michelle Obama, and the late Breonna Taylor, along with 40 additional works that explore her arresting use of color and realism.—J.A.D.