Arts Thread

For the 4th year running, ARTS THREAD members will be showing in a dedicated section of DESIGNERSBLOCK. This year the exhibition will be again at BASE, a former industrial space on via Tortona, the heart of Milan Design Week.

Confirmed ARTS THREAD members exhibiting: Agnes De Vlin / Ben Perkins / Bojana Nikodijevic / Chuly Lee / Drua Sif Simone Albrechtsen / Elodie Lorraine Ripani / Fiona Rourke / Ghazaleh Khalifeh / Huiyu Chen & Letizia Moricca / Humaira Aamir Ghani / Jamileh Nadelmann / Marta Monge / Michelle Yang / Mona He / Moskou Marta Adamczyk / Qianxin Zhang / Rebecca Chan / Sara Barroccu / Shinko / Tui Krosschell / Wir Design / Young Ran Lee

Agnes De Vlin is a textiles designer whose work focuses on a curiosity for harmony and synchronicity that occurs within natural patterns.

Ben Perkins is a furniture designer who creates space saving furniture through traditional craft techniques.

Bojana Nikodijevic is a leather accessories designer, and feels her pieces should act as extensions of the body, as if they could communicate with you,

Chuly Lee is a designer-maker who mainly produces porcelain jewellery, artwork, and ceramic gadgets.

Drua Sif Simone Albrechtsen is a textiles designer whose work is focused on colour, material and surface patterns, and how each of these elements can be used to emphasise a specific texture.

Elodie Lorraine Ripani creates contemporary handmade jewellery and is based in Rome.

Fiona Rourke is a jewellery designer, creator and self-proclaimed materials enthusiast, Her work dances between the worlds of art, fashion and design.

Ghazaleh Khalifeh is a textiles designer who uses a series of intricate techniques, including the sugar-crystallisation of fibres and heat-press bonding.

Huiyu Chen & Letizia Moricca are product designer interested in the interaction between 2D and 3D forms, and the relationship between shadows and objects.

Humaira Aamir Ghani is a fashion designer who uses a unique combination of vibrant colours and magical digital prints taking you on a journey back in time.

Jamileh Nadelmann is a fashion designer who takes full advantage of the opportunities around her. As well as designing, she has worked as a trend forecaster and global sales manager assistant.

Marta Monge is an industrial designer who places politics, ethnography and social studies in relationship with functions and aesthetics.

Michelle Yang brings to Milan her woodcarving kit for beginners. By using an augmented app on a smart phone, beginners can experience this traditional skill more easily.

Mona He joins us in Milan with her Coo Light.

Moskou Marta Adamczyk is a furniture and product designer who creates minimal, but only seemingly simple concepts, enriched with surprising details hidden in construction or function.

Qianxin Zhang is a child culture designer whose most recent project investigated how sight can be used as the main sense in play.

Rebecca Chan is a furniture designer who creates lifestyle products primarily inspired by nature and organic forms.

Sara Barroccu creates 3D Jewellery under the name Barsa Design.

Shinko by Federica Angelici is an accessories designer bringing together the best of Japanese and Italian artisan tradition.

Tui Krosschell is a textiles designer who uses a combination of digital software, photography and painting to bring her work to life.

Wir Design by Yizhou Zhang and Haitao Zhu creates furniture of a durable quality at affordable prices.

Young Ran Lee is a ceramicist whose work expresses a way of reaching down to ancestral origins and primeval sources.