Historic pool turned showcase
Milan Design Week’s Fuorisalone circuit added Piscina Romano—a 1937 Rationalist swimming complex by Luigi Secchi near Gio Ponti university buildings—as a new venue, and glassware label 6:AM is staging an exhibition there called “Over and Over and Over and Over.” ( ) The site choices underscore Milan’s emphasis on choreographing shows across architectural landmarks. (wallpaper.com)
Milan Design Week 2026 is adding Piscina Romano to the Fuorisalone map, turning a historic public swimming complex into a design venue for 6:AM’s glass exhibition. (wallpaper.com) The exhibition is called “Over and Over and Over and Over,” and it runs from April 19 to April 26 at Via Ampère 24 in Milan. 6:AM says entry requires registration and lists opening hours of 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (6am.glass) Wallpaper’s guide to new Fuorisalone sites says Piscina Romano sits near university buildings by Gio Ponti, placing the show inside a cluster of Milanese modern architecture rather than a conventional fair booth. (wallpaper.com) That venue choice fits how Fuorisalone works: instead of one ticketed hall, Milan Design Week spreads installations across neighborhoods, courtyards, palazzos and civic buildings across the city. Design Week guides for 2026 list events citywide from April 19 or 20 through April 26. (designweekguide.com; dezeen.com) Piscina Romano is older than some early previews suggested. Official and event materials describe it as inaugurated in 1929, not 1937, and credit engineer-architect Luigi Lorenzo Secchi with the design. (6am.glass; fuorisalone.it; polimi.it) Politecnico di Milano’s archive says Secchi, born in 1899, worked for the city of Milan on pools, markets and school buildings after graduating in 1924. The same archive identifies the Guido Romano pool as one of his early civic projects. (polimi.it) 6:AM is using the pool as more than a backdrop. The brand says new and past collections will be placed throughout the complex to create what it calls a dialogue between space, glass and architecture. (6am.glass) Other 2026 coverage shows the same pattern across Milan. Domus highlighted “historic swimming pools” and university spaces among this year’s most prominent Fuorisalone installations, while Wallpaper singled out secretive or unusual architectural sites as destinations in their own right. (domusweb.it; wallpaper.com) By the time visitors arrive at Piscina Romano this week, the setting is doing part of the work: a 1929 public pool by Luigi Lorenzo Secchi becomes another stop in Milan’s annual city-scale exhibition. (6am.glass; fuorisalone.it)
