Studio Visit / Where projects, creativity and culture meet.

Design studios, galleries and artists' ateliers become the protagonists of a journey dedicated to art, architecture and design. Exhibitions, site-specific installations and contents created specifically for the occasion enrich the program of the seventh edition.

Dalmoto & Chiara Berta. A journey into the world of collectible design, exploring movement and fragmentation, in connection with the theme chosen for the seventh edition of the Lake Como Design Festival. Inside Palazzo Pantera, surrounded by the collectible furnishings of Dalmoto studio, we discover Ricostruzione, a project by Chiara Berta, born from the desire to shape new subjects through the reuse of plaster casts. Tied one by one and connected to the structure, the individual pieces in majolica evoke the steps taken to shape a path.

Dalmoto & Chiara Berta
Corte di Palazzo Pantera
Como, via Rodari 9
from 14 to 21 September
10 AM - 1 PM, 3 PM - 6 PM

Memesi, branding and communication studio, hosts Paper & People, the iconic paper showroom. Creativity and visual culture meet in an open-air setting, exploring paper as both a medium of expression and a design tool. The day unfolds with @folllit and his “Taqquini”, an upcycling workshop where recovered paper, memories, and handcraft come together to create artisanal notebooks. As night falls, Da Pietro joins in, and the fragments turn liquid in an exclusive cocktail tasting: an invitation to slow down, savor and remember.

Memesi
Corte di Palazzo Pantera
Como, via Rodari 9
18 settembre
10.30-15.30

Event: 18 September 6 PM – 9 PM
CRAFTED SIPS Memesi hosts Da Pietro
Cocktail tasting en plein air
by invitation only

Studio Terragni Architetti. The architecture studio, heir to a long history that began with Giuseppe Terragni, preserves and reinterprets fragments of time, memory, and work. These fragments, whether material or immaterial, are not static relics but living elements that generate new visual and narrative connections. The dialogue between past and present comes to life in the studio, where works, objects, and projects from yesterday and today share the same walls. Even small details, such as the lamp rebuilt from its original remains, become symbols of continuity and creativity. In this interplay, the fragment becomes a key to understanding and shaping the future.

Studio Terragni Architetti
Como, via Indipendenza 55
16, 18, 19 September / 2 PM - 5 PM

Fabrizio Musa. Artist Fabrizio Musaʼs atelier in Como was once the home and studio of Giuseppe Terragni. The atelier will be open to visitors during the seventh edition of the Lake Como Design Festival. Since his artistic debut in the second half of the 1990s, Fabrizio Musa has blended more traditional painting techniques with new technologies.

Fabrizio Musa
Como, via Indipendenza 55
from 14 to 19 September / 2.30 PM -7.30 PM
21 September / 2.30 PM -7.30 PM

Materia 2.0. "Every fragment is a beginning. Every part, a possibility." In Frammenti is a visual and material exploration of the fragment as a primary form of design thinking. In the vocabulary of Materia 2.0, the fragment is not a missing piece, but an active presence — a point of origin. It is memory, technique, intuition: a living element that carries the traces of the process it comes from, and the potential meanings of what it might become.

Materia 2.0
Como, viale Fratelli Rosselli 5
14-20 September / 10 AM - 7 PM

Atelier Draga&Aurel. Draga Obradovic and Aurel K. Basedow founded their atelier in 2007 in Como: a multidisciplinary studio where art and design converge. With backgrounds in fine art, they have developed an expressive language that weaves together references to the past with a drive for experimentation. Their work focuses primarily on resin, often combined with other materials, in an ongoing exploration of transparency and texture, resulting in one-of-a-kind pieces. Art and design coexist in a constant dialogue, fueling a personal and ever-evolving vision.

Atelier Draga&Aurel
Como, via Ferrari 7
from 15 to 19 September
9 AM -1 PM / 2 PM - 6 PM
14, 20, 21 September
10.30 AM - 2 PM / 3 PM - 6 PM

The studio Harry Miesbauer Yacht Design, founded in 2007, will open its doors. Harry Miesbauer is internationally recognised for his work in sailing yacht design, ranging from fast cruisers to pure racing yachts. Have a “sneak-in” and immerse yourself in the beauty, creativity, and lightness of yacht design in its purest form. A selection of models and materials from their most significant projects will also be on display.

Event – 16 September 6.30 PM – fra(m)menti, cross-talk between three designers from different disciplines: Oscar Buratti (architect and designer); Alberto Simeone (yacht designer); Harry Miesbauer (yacht designer). Moderated by Eugenio Ruocco (Deputy Editor of Il Giornale della Vela). Limited participation, registration required info@hmyd.it

Harry Miesbauer Yacht Design
Como, via Volta 43
dal 14 al 21 September
11 AM –1 PM, 3 PM – 7 PM

Archivio Collina. As part of the Como Lake Design Festival, local artist Giuliano Collina will open the doors of his studio to the public. Having started out in the realm of Pop Art, Collina has developed a highly personal artistic language over the course of his long career, reaching in recent years remarkable syntheses both in style and content. On this occasion, alongside Collina’s works, the studio will also host pieces by Nicola Console, a Palermo-born, Milan-based artist, and Argentine sculptor Gabriela Spector, both of whom will be present.

Archivio Collina
Como, via Don Brusadelli 28
18, 19 September / 3 PM - 7 PM
20 September / 12 AM - 6 PM

Galli Cavalcabò architecture studio is located at Via Milano No. 307. It consists of two buildings constructed in different phases of the 20th century: one from the 30s in masonry that housed a distillery, and one built later in concrete used as a garage. The project preserves and reinterprets the original elements from different eras through a surgical intervention of subtraction: cutting the roof while keeping the structural elements of the beams exposed allowed for the creation of an internal courtyard that brings light and air into all spaces, and cutting the concrete barrels to give them a new function.

Studio Galli Cavalcabò
Como, via Milano 307
from 15 to 19 September / 2.30 PM - 7 PM
20 September / 10 AM - 7 PM

Brambilla Orsoni Architetti Associati. The associated studio was founded in 1994 in Como. The headquarters is a cement factory from the 20s, renovated with the criteria adopted in every project: sobriety, rigor, naturalness. The operational areas move between the private, public and corporate sectors.

Brambilla Orsoni Architetti Associati
Como, via Alciato 8
15-19 September
9.30 AM - 12.30 AM, 2.30 PM - 18 PM
20 September
9.30 AM - 12.30 AM

Fragments of paper — recovered from production waste — become traces of creative thought in the textile workshops “Make Your Abstract Real”, held at Tipografia Como — for this edition in collaboration with Lucia Pigliapochi. A place where every corner reflects artisanal care and expressive potential. These are the same values that guide every stage of the project development curated by MYAR. Industry professionals will support you in creating a collage composition that, within a few weeks, will be transformed into your own unique and personal silk bandana — produced by Abstract.

Tipografia Como
Workshop Make Your Abstract Real
Como, via Pannilani 2
from 15 to 19 September / 3 PM - 6.30 PM
14, 20, 21 settembre / 10.30 AM - 1 PM, 3 PM - 6.30 PM

Mimmo Totaro, born in Como in 1948, attended the Polytechnic University of Milan and collaborated for many years with architectural firms. In his Como studio, in addition to organizing and setting up exhibitions, he works in the fields of graphic design, painting, and sculpture. He has created environmental installations in open-air spaces, featuring large-scale structures made with materials related to “Textil Art”. In 1991, together with Nazzarena Bortolaso, he founded the artistic exhibition Miniartextil.

Mimmo Totaro
Como, via Pannilani 23
from 14 to 21 September
3 PM - 6 PM

The architecture firm Ceresa Grandis Architetti explores the fragment — in its positive sense — as a part of a whole. The connection with the vast natural and man-made landscape that shapes the territory in which we live remains central. The public is invited to interpret these fragments as individual territorial units, through the work of artist Colombo, the studio, and the photographs of Andrea Ceriani — offering reinterpretations of fragments of collective memory, the genius loci, and the resilience of natural landscapes.

Ceresa Grandis Architetti
Como, viale Varese 73
from 14 to 21 September
5 PM - 7 PM

SPAZIO 4 is a professional technical studio operating in the fields of architecture and interior design, both nationally and internationally, employing qualified expertise in the interest of the client. It provides design, consultancy, and project implementation services. Ideas are proposed, tested, and verified. Discussions are held, sketches are drawn, and comparisons are made. And the next day, it may all start over again—until conviction and trust prevail, transforming into a final decision.

SPAZIO 4
Como, via Lambertenghi 4
15 September / 15.30-19
from 16 to 20 September
9.30 AM - 12.30 AM / 3.30 PM - 7 PM

Archivio Cattaneo. Founded at the wish of Cesare Cattaneo’s (1912–1943) heirs, the archive is located in the Rental House in Cernobbio (1938–39), universally recognized as the masterpiece of the Como-born architect. The materials preserved in the archive – sketches, working papers, architectural models, and personal documents – have been collected, inventoried, and catalogued to make his rich cultural legacy accessible to scholars and visitors alike. Within this rationalist masterpiece, a small museum hosts numerous models, both original and reconstructed, offering the public a scaled visual representation of his remarkable design genius.

Archivio Cattaneo
Cernobbio, via Regina 41
15, 16, 17 September
11 AM - 15 PM

Trippini Stampe Antiche Cernobbio. A new exhibition space dedicated to antique prints, maps, and rare books. In line with the theme of this seventh edition, a series of works by the artist Antonio Coppola are on display, taken from his solo exhibition Pompeii Eighteen Centuries Ago, Present-Day Pompeii, created in 1893 to mark the silver wedding anniversary of King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of Savoy. The works depict views of the Campanian city as it appeared to his eyes, alongside how he imagined it—after a careful and studied reconstruction—before the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Trippini Stampe Antiche Cernobbio
Cernobbio, via Felice Cavallotti 7/9
from 14 to 21 September
10.30 AM – 2 PM, 3 PM - 7 PM