Fuorisalone 2016: Belgium is Design

For Milan Design Week 2016,
 the organisations and institutions 
that support and promote Belgian design under the collective name Belgium is Design, have joined forces
with the international contemporary culture magazine DAMN°. Taking part in the group event A Matter of Perception: Tradition & Technology at the Palazzo Litta, the seventh edition of Belgium is Design’s presentation in Milan, Belgian Matters, features the results of pairings between 13 designers and companies, the latter often coming from sectors far removed from that of furniture design. Each project has been commissioned especially for the event and will be seen for the first time during the Salone.

For DAMN° together with Mosca Partners it is a return to the 17th-century Palazzo Litta, having hosted A Matter of Perception: Products & Materials at the location in 2015.

Belgium is Design has worked closely with DAMN° in selecting and matching the participants for Belgian Matters, who come from all three regions of Belgium (Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia) and occupy three rooms of the Palazzo. The partnerships have been forged and supported by Belgium is Design and present a series of ad-hoc products and prototypes that stress confrontations and commonalities between designers and manufacturers, as they work both with their fields of expertise but also outside their normal experiences. However, for the mix of manufacturers, artisans, industrial producers and research centres, it is often the first opportunity to experiment and encounter design as a collaborative act or in a way that expands and exploits the potential of their role beyond that of a supplier of materials or the tools
of production.