Mosaic murals and chickens

Massimiliano Locatelli has turned a slim Milan townhouse into a ceramic bar lined with hand-painted mosaic scenes for Milan Design Week 2026. (wallpaper.com) The installation, called SiMa Glazed Bar, takes over Si Ma Townhouse on Corso di Porta Vigentina and runs across three floors during the city’s Fuorisalone program. (robbreport.it) Wallpaper reported that Locatelli filled the project with mural-style tile imagery including chickens and tropical drinks, drawing on mosaic decoration that once appeared in early 20th-century Milan entryways. (wallpaper.com) Locatelli Partners said the surfaces were made from tiles cut, numbered, painted and kiln-fired by hand before being assembled into square modules. Robb Report Italia said the production was carried out in Vietnam. (robbreport.it) The project opened as Milan prepared for Fuorisalone 2026, the citywide design circuit that Archiproducts said runs from April 21 to 26 alongside the Salone del Mobile fair. (archiproducts.com, (salonemilano.it) This year’s Fuorisalone theme is “Essere Progetto,” or “Being Project,” a program framed around design as a process shaped by people, experiments and collaboration with digital tools. (archiproducts.com) That wider program has pushed design beyond product displays and into temporary places people can enter, sit in and use. Domus described the 2026 edition as a week of “temporary hospitality” and immersive environments spread across Milan. (domusweb.it) Si Ma Townhouse was already a Locatelli project before this takeover. Locatelli Partners describes it as a three-floor venue completed in 2020 and calls it the narrowest townhouse in central Milan. (locatellipartners.com) The result is a bar that works as both a place to get a drink and a short-lived street-level exhibition during Milan’s busiest design week. The chickens and cocktails are playful, but the structure underneath is an old Milan craft put back on public view. (wallpaper.com, (robbreport.it)