Milan Design Week glass showcase

Delvis (Un)Limited is opening a Milan Design Week exhibition built entirely around glass, using six studios’ work to test how fragile the material can look and how far it can be pushed. (wallpaper.com) The show is called *The Romance of Fragility / Glass* and runs from April 21 to April 26, 2026, at Delvis (Un)Limited’s gallery on Via Fatebenefratelli 9 in Milan’s Brera district. (delvisunlimited.it; delvisunlimited.it) Curator Valentina Ciuffi selected work by Familiar Form, Serim Kwack, Johan Pertl, Inderjeet Sandhu, Tino Seubert and Maria Tyakina, with creative direction by Studio Vedèt and exhibition design by Space Caviar. (delvisunlimited.it; wallpaper.com) The premise is simple: glass is the domestic material most closely associated with breakage, but the exhibition frames fragility as responsiveness rather than weakness. Delvis says the pieces put glass under different kinds of stress and pair it with contrasting materials to challenge “common perceptions.” (delvisunlimited.it) That lands in a week when Milan’s design calendar is again sprawling across the city. Fuorisalone 2026 runs during Milan Design Week from April 20 to April 26, and this year’s theme is “Be the Project,” which shifts attention from finished objects to design as an evolving process. (fuorisalone.it; archiproducts.com) The scale of the event helps explain why tightly focused shows like this get attention. Salone del Mobile.Milano said its 2025 edition drew 302,548 attendees, with 2,103 exhibitors from 37 countries and professionals arriving from 151 countries. (salonemilano.it) In Ciuffi’s selection, some works make glass read like stone, while others emphasize its industrial or liquid character. Delvis describes pieces that look sculpted, pieces armored with metal, and surfaces that hold visible internal cracks. (delvisunlimited.it) Wallpaper points to Johan Pertl’s pink-tinged *Erosion* side table, which sets cascading glass over a white marble plinth, and to Familiar Form’s vases, which revisit the fading Czech tradition of Bohemian cut glass. (wallpaper.com) Delvis has been using its Milan Design Week program to probe collectible design from different angles, and Studio Vedèt says this year’s glass edition follows earlier exhibitions including *The Theater of Things* and *Dark Times, Bright Signs*. (studiovedet.com) By the end of the week, the point is less whether glass can survive impact than whether design can make delicacy feel intentional. In Brera, Delvis is betting that a material known for breaking can carry the sharpest argument of the fair. (delvisunlimited.it; wallpaper.com)