Julia Sellman

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Milan Design Week started life in 1961 as a furniture trade fair, the ‘Salone del Mobile’. And, though the trade fair itself is still a vital component of the event, the week is now a riotous, cacophonous, global celebration of cultural activity, matching our broadened appreciation of design as a tool for progress, more than a process for making furniture. Precise data is still being crunched, but rumours circulated of close to half a million visitors to Milan over the course of this 63rd edition.