Alcova Continues at Villa Bagatti Valsecchi – Milan Design week 2025

Designers' installations inside Villa Bagatti Valsecchi at Alcova 2025, blending contemporary pieces with the villa’s historic architecture and high ceilings.

Every year during Milan Design Week, Alcova invites us into unexpected places—spaces where time seems to stand still and design breathes new life into forgotten architecture. Today I would love to take you along visiting Villa Bagatti Valsecchi. Wandering through the villa is a true walk through stories and spaces. The high ceilings, peeling walls, […]

Design at villa Borsani – Alcova | Milan Design week 2025

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Last year I fell totally in love with the beautiful  villa Borsani,  a Modernist architectural masterpiece by Italian architect and furniture designer Osvaldo Borsani, who built the villa to use as a family home from 1945. This year the villa was still as beautiful as last year. Designers from different countries exhibited in the various […]

Alcova introduces two new sites for their 2025 edition at Varedo

Only a few weeks before travelling to Milan again for Milan Design week. Always looking forward to visit the many exhibitions and especially Alcova, which is always one of the first places we visit. Not only does Alcova host many interesting designers but also gives you the opportunity to view the most unique destinations around […]

This was Alcova 2024 | Villa Bagatti Valsecchi

Coming back with hundreds of pictures from Milan design week, including a folder full of pictures made at Alcova. Which is one of my most loved exhibitions over the last years when travelling to Milan during this week. I though I give you a last round up of a few designers I managed to capture […]

An industrial basement with Terraformae tiles at Alcova 2024

At the basement of villa Bagatti Valsecchi Terraformæ showed a project by Sant’Anselmo furnace, dedicated to experimentation, design, and research in the field of terracotta. It was a beautiful space with an old cooker and a great fireplace. Terraformae Terraformae is born as an extension of the historic Sant’Anselmo brickworks, world-renowned for the production of […]

A modernist masterpiece – Villa Borsani at Alcova 2024

Previously in a former slaughterhouse during last year’s Salone and an abandoned military hospital in 2022 Alcova 2024 took place in two of the most extraordinary villas of the Milan metropolitan area: Villa Borsani and Villa Bagatti Valsecchi. Villa Borsani, completed in 1945, is a Modernist architectural masterpiece by Italian architect and furniture designer Osvaldo […]