Bodega - cabinet

ArchiThoughts–ArchiTouch, Milan Design Week, from 14th to the 26th of April 2026, Milan.

Arpa®—together with the Broadview Materials brands FENIX®, Formica®, Homapal® and Getacore®—presents ArchiThoughts–ArchiTouch, the third chapter of the project curated by Federica Sala and hosted at FENIX Scenario in Foro Buonaparte 66 during Milan Design Week 2026. The exhibition brings together six international architecture studios—Marion Mailaender, Parasite 2.0, RedDuo Studio, STORAGEMILANO, Studio GGSV and ZIMMER—within an installation designed by the architecture studio (AB)NORMAL.


Bodega – cabinet explores the concept of micro-architecture as a generator of social interaction, drawing inspiration from mobile street-food structures and multifunctional domestic furniture. Bodega-Cabinet is conceived as a multi-use object capable of transforming space and mediating relationships between body, object, and environment, while reconnecting with the tradition of large furnishing elements that organize interiors at a reduced architectural scale. At the same time, the project investigates the expressive and technical potential of Arpa materials, testing their limits through processes of bending and stress to achieve new forms, and exploring their interaction with light to create surfaces that diffuse illumination and, in some cases, become luminous bodies themselves.
  

ArchiThoughts–ArchiTouch | Milan Design Week 2026
Curated by Federica Sala

April 14th – 26th
FENIX Scenario
Foro Buonaparte 66, Milan

 

Artwork by Iacopo Costanzo

Ph. Claudia Zalla