Millim Studio


About

Millim Studio is a Rome based design studio dedicated to research, conceptual exploration, and material valorization. Their practice focuses on processes, exploring new visions in which form and content interact in the creation of unpublished and contemporary works. Founders Chiara Pellicano and Edoardo Giammarioli value research and time in the creation of sustainable, unique, and innovative projects, investigating the concept of beauty through artworks, products, installations, and interiors. Their vision is directed towards the creation of new expressive forms capable of establishing stable connections between culture, art, design, and communication.

In 2024 Millim Studio was selected among the 20 Talents by AD Germany. In 2019, the studio won the Wallpaper* Design Award in the "Best Dream Design Factory" category.

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Atelier

Merge__SideTable
CO Series 01__Sculpture/Bookshelf
Metalique__Bookshelf
Metalique__Side Table
Metalique__Coffee Table
Metalique__Low Table
XYZ__Chandelier
Marbelicious__O bench
Marbelicious__S bench
Marbelicious__Bookcase
Marbelicious__Storage
Cutout__Table Collection
Cutout__Vase Collection
Miscellaneous__Side Table
Re&Regina__Oil Lamps


Collaborations

Omnes__Ruffino 1877
Balance__Secondome Gallery
Culto Chair__Ferrantelli
Alter__Studio F
Twins__Fornace De Martino
Fusion__Secondome Gallery
S.U.P.__Luisaviaroma
Glitch__Secondome Gallery


Exhibitions

Ruffino 1877__Triennale Milano
Secondome__Rossana Orlandi
Curated__Brussels
Thema__Baranzate Ateliers
Metalique__Label201
HKDI Gallery__Hong Kong
Venice Design Biennial
ADI Design Museum
Contemporary Cluster
Piazza di Siena__Villa Borghese
Moderna
CUMTLB
Fuori Contesto
EDIT Napoli
In Search of Lost Time
Origins__MDW22
Villa Borghese
Collectible Fair
Lake Como Design Festival
Still Moving
Videocittà
Maison & Objet
Twiner #6
Ventura Future
Match
Ladies & Gentlemen
Operae


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2023__Venice Design Biennial__Venice, Italy                               

Exhibitions



SPUMA - SPACE FOR THE ARTS
Fondamenta San Biagio 800R
Giudecca Island
ph: ©Giacomo Gandola


Auto-Exotic is the theme of the fourth edition of the Venice Design Biennial, whose
programme of exhibitions returns to Venice from 19 May to 18 June, in parallel with
the first month of the Architecture Biennale.

The curatorial theme of this edition, proposed by the curators and founders of the project, Luca Berta and Francesca Giubilei, is Auto-Exotic.

The exotic is dead - long live the exotic. They stole from us elsewhere! What is to be done? There will be a self-elsewhere somewhere else. Designers from all over the world unite, self-colonize, self-appropriate!

In his seminal essay Orientalism (1978), Edward Said showed how since the eighteenth century the cultural investigation of the East, understood as the physical and mental space of exoticism, revealed conceptual connections with colonialist practices. Elsewhere, populated by odalisques and caliphs, full of mysteries and sensuality, exercised a fascination in Europe that was intertwined with the practices of political, military and commercial hegemony.
Exciting passivity, femininity, indolent sensuality-sexuality, immobility, traditionalism, irrationality: all distinctive traits projected on the East to obtain in negative the mold where to pour the incandescent material - virile, progressive, rational - of Western identity.

In recent years, two interrelated phenomena have emerged, which have radically altered this scenario. On the one hand, “exotic” cultures and civilizations have spectacularly reversed the cliché of immobile traditionalism. The great emerging powers are located outside the West. It is the West that shows signs of declining immobility. Elsewhere has found its voice - and it is different from what we expected.

The other phenomenon is the correlative decline of globalization as we have known it, that is, as a perpetual expansive motion of Western capitalism. In all likelihood, capitalist dominance remains, what is wavering is its western declination, with the corollary of social and political aspects, whose export value has turned out to be modest to say the least. In the meantime, globalization has done its job, and everything that in the past manifested itself in an aura of unattainable distance now appears to be at hand anytime, anywhere, without delay.

The consequence is that the search for the exotic, for the exciting and mysterious elsewhere, slides towards a horizon that no longer extends geographically, but rather collects itself in the more or less hidden folds of our own culture of belonging, and in its own offshoots both in the sense of marginality and avant-garde.

The challenge for designers today is how to investigate this otherness, near and far, in a way purified of stale prejudices, but not without the radicalism of those who want to break down prejudices. The Venice Design Biennial wants to invite them to present their vision in a city that is the cradle of the concept of the exotic, a hinge between West and East, where the account of Marco Polo’s legendary journey for the first time opened new horizons to th gaze and to the imagination applied to an elsewhere beyond the limits of known experience.