At Milan Design Week, Alcova combined a unique venue with emerging design talent, experimental projects, and a good supply of shaded tables served by food and drink trucks.
Forest Tales presented furniture that aims to draw attention to underutilized American hardwoods such as maple, cherry, and red oak.
Milan Design Week's SaloneSatellite, dedicated to designers aged under 35, is always a Design Milk favorite and didn't disappoint this year.
Milan Design Week is back with a bang with MATTER by Norwegian Presence – a celebration of materiality, ingenuity, and the culture that is informed by Norway's natural resources.
Henry Swanzy transforms waste – wood shavings and chocolate husks from local businesses – into geometric acoustic wall tiles.
Sarah Christensen takes used coffee waste from a local café and turns it into a terrazzo-like material to make modern home objects.
Jamie Norris Green creates 3D printed lighting made from a bio-degradable polymer that includes waste oyster and scallop shells.
Design Milk speaks to UK-based Green&Blue who are on a mission to make havens for wildlife with Bee Brick made from clay waste.
London-based Corrie Williamson makes jewelry + hanging mobiles from wooden and metal offcuts leftover from the work of other designer-makers.
Woodturner Darren Appiagyei highlights wood's intrinsic beauty by celebrating knots, cracks, bark, or grain, which are often seen as flaws.
bFRIENDS by Bene and Pearson Lloyd is a collection of fun, 3D-printed desktop accessories made from discarded food packaging.
Martin Thübeck designed the Betula Collection with a frame made from identical pieces of reclaimed wood, connected by a single joint – both designed for disassembly.
Disharee Mathur is an interdisciplinary designer whose NewBlue project reimagines damaged sanitary ware into vases and accessories.
Mon Terra, founded by Tamara Efrat ad Yuval Dishon, turns agricultural plastic waste into furniture and accessories.
Anti collects discarded and broken umbrellas, disassembles them, and upcycles them into desk and table lamps.