Lake Como Design Festival renews its appointment and announces the sixth edition, from September 15th to 22nd 2024 in the city of Como and around its lake. Lightness is the leitmotif of this new event, that will take visitors on a diffuse journey discovering exhibitions and site-specific installations around this year theme from different points of view. Never as in this moment do we need lightness, that same one described by Italo Calvino in his “Six Memos for the New Millennium”: the lightness “associated with precision and determination, not with vagueness and indulgence to chance.”
A constant need over time that has always pushed us toward the illusion that we can ignore the force of gravity and get closer to the sky. From Leonardo's mechanical flight to the construction of the Tour Eiffel, from the use of glass to that of aerogel, “light thinking” has always involved different fields - literature, theater, art, design, architecture, physics, chemistry - and now it takes us on a new date, where lightness finds the right balance between form, material and movement.
program
Villa del Grumello
Lightness in Progress
Designers, artists, editors and galleries meet for the first time in the historic rooms of Villa del Grumello, set in a large garden and overlooking the first basin of Lake Como.
Chilometro della Conoscenza
Contemporary Design Selection
Lake Como Design Festival renews the appointment with contemporary design selection curated by Giovanna Massoni.
palazzo del broletto
The form of lightness
Group exhibition tracing a century of lightness in a selection of different seating made with different techniques and materials.
san pietro in atrio
Stories of Paper
A "light" journey among works, objects and furnishings made with paper and its derivatives.
route off
Off 2024
Our journey in and outside the ancient city walls continues in this sixth edition, dedicated to discovering a selection of projects and hidden places.
Experience
Rationalist Como
Also for this sixth edition, the festival confirms a series of guided tours in the company of architects who will tell you about the masterpieces of Como's rationalism.