Laura May Todd

Milan

Journalist, Editor and Copywriter at Freelance

Milan Editor at Wallpaper* Magazine

Freelance writer // Milan, London

Articles

Step inside Prada's innovative new centre devoted to ocean education

2 weeks ago | wallpaper.com | Laura May Todd

Though Prada is, understandably so, mainly known for its clothing since Miuccia Prada took the helm of her family company in 1978, it has always had a robust presence in the cultural sphere. Fondazione Prada, the brand’s art and cultural institution, was founded in 1993 and expanded in 2011 and 2015, with the openings of its Venice and Milan galleries.
Inside the new Sunnei concept store and café in Milan – the perfect pitstop

2 weeks ago | wallpaper.com | Laura May Todd

When Milan-based fashion brand Sunnei sent models marching down Via Privata Pietro Cironi this past February, each clutching oversized, branded shopping bags, the spectacle was more than a mere unveiling of its A/W 2025 collection.
Emerging galleries to discover during Milan Design Week

2 weeks ago | wallpaper.com | Laura May Todd

Though the Rho Fiera, the fairground where Salone del Mobile is staged, is the true powerhouse of the wider Milan Design Week – the corporate fuel that keeps the industry running – it’s the smaller, independent projects that most of the design watchers who flock here each April really want to see. These exhibitions – largely independent and self-funded – are the design world’s bellwethers, the ideas, aesthetics, and materials we’ll see spreading across the globe over the next year.
Buccellati brings the forest and super Furry Animals to Milan

2 weeks ago | wallpaper.com | Laura May Todd

During the maelstrom of Milan Design Week, visitors are understandably barraged with an endless torrent of the ephemeral and the new. So it’s a refreshing departure for a brand to focus on a hallmark product it has been perfecting and refining over decades.
This Gio Ponti-designed train is the backdrop for the next Prada Frames symposium

3 weeks ago | wallpaper.com | Laura May Todd |Federico Ciamei

When Formafantasma’s Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin first announced their now-yearly Prada Frames symposium, launched in 2022 during Milan Design Week with the support of the Italian fashion house, it was a welcome antidote to the unforgiving pace and commercial focus of the event. Previous editions have dealt with materials and their relationship to the natural world, the exploitation of forests, and the politics of home.
Milan Design Week: Promemoria’s Lake Como furniture showcase

3 weeks ago | wallpaper.com | Laura May Todd

In the late 18th century, the poet William Wordsworth embarked on a meandering trek along the serpentine shores of Lake Como, rhapsodising about the landscape as ‘a treasure whom the earth keeps to herself’. Wordsworth was one among a cadre of Romantics – Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats – who travelled from England to the northern Italian region and felt compelled to immortalise its landscapes in verse.
Ahead of Milan Design Week, Vincent Van Duysen gives us an exclusive tour of Palazzo Molteni

3 weeks ago | wallpaper.com | Laura May Todd

Palazzo Molteni – of which we shared a first glimpse earlier in 2025 – is Molteni & C’s most ambitious project yet. Brought to life by the Italian design firm’s creative director, Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen – who now takes us on a full tour – this seven-storey, art-filled cultural destination, in Milan’s Quadrilatero della Moda fashion district, is robust evidence that the company isn’t just expanding its retail footprint, but positioning itself as a global lifestyle brand.
Bea Bongiasca Turned Her Apartment Into a Giant Jewelry Box

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Laura May Todd

The jewelry designer Bea Bongiasca's Milan studio is a celebration of color and creativity. Video Back transcriptHouse Tour | Bea BongiascaThe jewelry designer shows off her Milan apartment, which she shares with her cats, Fat Momo and Ichigo. Hello, I'm Bea and welcome to my house in Milan. This is my cat Fat Momo and he will be having the little tour with us. [MUSIC PLAYING] I live in front of Parco Sempione, which is the biggest park in Milan.
Inside a Designer’s Long Dreamed For Paris Pied-à-Terre

1 month ago | architecturaldigest.com | Laura May Todd |Richard Powers

All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Who among us hasn’t spent a month, week, or even a day in Paris and dreamed of someday returning, keys in hand, to a Left Bank pied-à-terre? While such romantic notions may be nearly universal, few are lucky enough to actually realize them.
A Seaborne Safari: Explore Indonesia’s Komodo Islands Aboard Vela

1 month ago | nuvomagazine.com | Laura May Todd

A Seaborne Safari: Explore Indonesia’s Komodo Islands Aboard Vela Sail the archipelago that is an exotic wonder and home of the Komodo dragon. If you were to visit the Indonesian archipelago in the late 19th or early 20th century, you would likely travel through its islands on a phinisi boat.