For Milan Design Week, our IESA arts&culture International MBA in Arts and Luxury Management students had the chance to travel to Milan!
The unmissable event of the year for design professionals and enthusiasts, Milan Design Week took place in the first week of April in Milan. On this occasion, numerous events, installations, and happenings are organized in several districts of the city.
Our MBA in Arts and Luxury Management students, staying a stone’s throw from the Brera district, begin their day with visits to museums and galleries, including the famous Pinacoteca di Brera - created by Napoleon -, the Bagatti Valsecchi brothers' house-museum in the heart of the fashion quadrilateral, and the Poldi Pezzoli museum, so as to spend the rest of the day exploring each neighborhood and discovering the buzz of Milan Design Week.
Alongside these visits, meetings with Milanese decorative arts professionals bring up exemplary careers: we particularly remember the visit to the Gipsoteca Fumagalli, one of the last in Italy to practice making plaster copies of antiquities, the fascinating conversations with the heirs of the Moretti glass manufacture, and the exchanges with the architecture studios open for Milan Design Week.
The stay is above all focused on contemporary creation and its sources or models: it is therefore the perfect opportunity to visit the magnificent Art Deco Villa Necchi Campiglio, very evocative of the industrial golden age of the Lombard city in the 1930s, and to discover the two sites of the Fondazione Prada - the Osservatorio Prada, a stone’s throw from the Duomo, and the huge site near Piazza Lodi, dominated by an industrial tower under reconstruction.
This trip, which allows them to grasp the importance of the link between art and luxury, is a great opportunity for our students to end the year on a high note!