As Milan prepares to host hundreds of worldwide guests this April for Milan Design Week 2025 and the coinciding Salone Del Cell furnishings honest, Salone has introduced that world-renowned director Paolo Sorrentino is one among this 12 months’s particular friends.
Identified for productions like HBO’s The Younger Pope (2016) and 2021 Venice Movie Competition Grand Jury Prize winner The Hand of God (2021), Sorrentino has unveiled the plans for his meditative set up referred to as “La dolce attesa,” which will probably be arrange on the entrance to Pavilions 22-24. On the theme, Sorrentino stated “One in every of life’s biggest misfortunes is ready. We discuss ready for a report, for a medical response. After we await our destiny, all we are able to do is wait. When our future is dependent upon a health care provider, on a laboratory, we simply have to hold on in there.”
“Our ready room aspires to be one thing else. It doesn’t power you to sit down nonetheless, however enables you to go. A little bit journey, like kids, on reassuring rides,” he continued. In response to Salone, Sorrentino is tapping set designer Margherita Palli, who has designed for greater than sixty reveals in Italy and around the globe, for the undertaking.
President of the Salone del Cell Maria Porro stated “With La dolce attesa, he invitations us to dwell an expertise that impacts us all intently.” She continued “This set up is not only an area, however a story made up of pictures, sounds and breaths, reminding us that ready is a common feeling. It’s so in Sorrentino’s chosen setting − a hospital ready room; in addition to in every other context wherein ready is the measure by which we relate to the world, in our houses, at work, in an airport, wherever future takes us.”
Keep tuned to Hypebeast for updates on the forthcoming Salone Del Cell honest and the broader activations set to happen throughout the town throughout Milan Design Week 2025.
