; MDW26 — 6:AM

6:AM

MDW 2026

OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER

Milan Design Week 2026
April 19-26, 2026 | 10AM - 8PM
Centro Balneare Romano - Via Ampère 24, Milano

6:AM presents OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER, a new exhibition project hosted in the historic Piscina Romano, inaugurated in 1929, designed by engineer-architect Luigi Lorenzo Secchi. set within an exceptional architectural landscape among the buildings of Gio Ponti and Vittoriano Viganò, the complex was conceived as part of a broader vision for accessible, neighborhood-scale public sports infrastructure. An iconic space becomes the setting for an immersive installation: 6:AM elements—featuring both new and past collections—are placed throughout the venue, creating a continuous dialogue between space, glass, and architecture.

The project stems from a reflection on repetition as a generative principle: in craftsmanship, as in daily life, many creations take form through repeated gestures, trials, errors, and small variations.

Elements and modules of the products are thus multiplied until they become architecture: lamps transforming into luminous sequences, glass modules building walls, objects evolving from single elements into space.

Alongside the existing collections, the exhibition brings together a series of objects presented for the first time, including Batch, the blown glass cubes originally created for the set design of the Bottega Veneta Summer 2026 runway show and a new limited-edition version of the Paysage and Lina collections developed with Hannes Peer.



Inside OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER, a looping video work created in collaboration with the creative studio Genera will present 6:AM objects as surreal presences inhabiting Piscina Romano. The work is installed in a small room staged as a temporary surveillance station.

A further collaboration is the site-specific sound installation Triton, a cross-media project by Invernomuto (Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi). The work translates data from a living ecosystem of small amphibians in Pietra Perduca, in Northern Italy, into sound, generating a constantly evolving composition. In the 6:AM exhibition, it becomes an immersive sound environment connecting Piscina Romano with the salamanders inhabiting ancient stone basins, suggesting an alternative way of listening to non-human worlds.

BAR PIENO

Bar Pieno is a temporary bar active for the entire duration of OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER within the Piscina Romano park. Normally operating only during the summer season as a neighborhood kiosk, the space is reactivated for Design Week and becomes an extension of the exhibition. Developed in collaboration with Vicino Wine Club, the project transforms the kiosk into an informal meeting point where design, food, and people come together. As a place where the international community around 6:AM can gather every day during Milan Design Week, Bar Pieno offers a continuous selection of drinks and snacks, from breakfast through to a long aperitivo.

Each evening, it hosts a rotating program of chefs from across Italy, editorial projects, and musicians, invited to contribute a direct and informal expression of their work.

A relaxed and familiar format is enriched by the presence in the kitchen of young chefs from some of Italy’s most interesting emerging restaurants, offering a personal and refined interpretation of this essential ritual. Rather than a series of scheduled events, the program unfolds as an open format: a continuous flow of encounters, performances, and shared experiences.

More than a service, Bar Pieno functions as a space of exchange, where different communities meet and where the most spontaneous dimension of the week takes shape.

No registration or reservation is required.



UNINVITED

UNINVITED is a video project conceived by the creative studio Genera as an immersive preview of the exhibition Over and Over and Over and Over.

Through the use of AI, the project constructs a visual narrative in which 6:AM objects emerge as surreal presences inhabiting Piscina Romano—inexplicable and slightly unsettling, as if they had always belonged to the space.

The visual language draws from the raw immediacy of urban exploration: instinctive framing, the impulse to document something that resists explanation. The objects appear suspended between familiarity and estrangement. Their glass bodies, both transparent and dense, seem to emerge from the decayed materiality of the site rather than being placed within it.

The project will be also integrated into the exhibition as an element of the installation, extending its function beyond a preview into the spatial narrative of the show.

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Bar Pieno: Vicino Wine Club

Sound Installation: Invernomuto

AI Campaign: Genera

Graphic Identity: Giga Design Studio

Visual Preview: Tommaso Mariniello

Press Office: Barbati Bertolissi


Sponsors:

Gruppo Censeo

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