Ongoing initiative: Milan Meet Up

The Milan Furniture Fair is an annual week long design event held in Milan, Italy. Salon del Mobile or Milan Design Week is the world’s largest design oriented event of any kind, offering new furniture, lighting and home furnishing products as well as exciting experimental installations, bleeding edge projects from industry, and educational platforms. Josh Owen has attended the Milan Design Week for his professional activities for nearly two decades.

Each year, RIT students studying abroad in Europe meet up with Josh to explore Milan Design Week under his expert guidance.

Group picture with students at Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milano (Milan Furniture Fair)

left to right: Gabriel Volk, Dan Partain, Taylor Clow, Hannah Lutz, Elizabeth Rintels, Vincent Lin, Josh Owen

La Triennale di Milano (National Design Museum) in Milan, Italy.

Blossoming Sculpture installation by Studio Swine and COS.

Milan Design Week Open Studio Map, 2017.

Group Picture with students and alums at Fondazinoe Achille Castiglione. Left to right: Vincent Lin, Sara Schult, Josh Owen, Hannah Lutz, Elizabeth Rintels, Prof. Mary Golden

Nike Exhibition at 2016 Milan Design Week.

Jellyfish Vases installation by Nendo.

Design After Design, La Triennale di Milano, 2016.

Josh with students and designer Ross Lovegrove.

Students at 2017 Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milano.

Meet up with designer Marcel Wanders at Bar Basso.

Meet up with designer Alejandro Mendini at his studio.

Group Picture, left to right: Elizabeth Rintels, Vincent Lin, Hannah Lutz, Josh Owen, Prof. Mary Golden

RIT ’14 Alumnus Alexander Bennett