Sergio Asti spotlighted
Milano Design Week will open April 21–26 and one headline show, “Property of Sergio Asti,” maps the postwar designer’s legacy—FRAGILE gallery is curating work that traces Asti’s influence on mid‑20th‑century Milan and global furniture design Milano Design Week 2026 Celebrates Sergio Asti: Property of a Design Heritage.
FRAGILE will mount Property of Sergio Asti at its renovated showroom on Via Simone D’Orsenigo 27 in Milan. (fragilemilano.com) The exhibition is scheduled to run 14 April–29 May 2026, and the program will be accompanied by a monograph published by Silvana Editoriale. (milanoartemagazine.it) The gallery is led by Alessandro Padoan and Alessandro Palmaghini, the team behind Fragile’s recent historic-design programming. (exibart.com) Fragile’s online Sergio Asti archive lists categories the show will draw from—armchairs, lighting, glass, tables and decorative objects—indicating the exhibition will present examples across those media. (fragilemilano.com) Sergio Asti’s commercial partners include Artemide, Brionvega, FontanaArte, Heller, Knoll, Salviati and Zanotta, firms whose catalogue pieces feature prominently in surveys of his work. (en.wikipedia.org) Asti’s Daruma lamp (project 1966, produced 1971) is repeatedly cited as a signature object in institutional accounts of his output, a model likely to be referenced in the show’s monograph. (triennale.org) Fragile previously staged the large-scale Anni Luce: Arredoluce — 100 Lampade exhibition for Milan Design Week 2024, demonstrating the gallery’s capacity for archival presentations of midcentury lighting. (artribune.com)
