{"id":402757,"date":"2026-04-21T03:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/402757\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T03:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:19:17","slug":"lina-ghotmeh-floods-milans-palazzo-litta-with-pink-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/402757\/","title":{"rendered":"lina ghotmeh floods milan’s palazzo litta with pink landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

palazzo litta becomes a saturated field of movement<\/p>\n

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At Milan Design Week 2026<\/a>, MoscaPartners reactivates Palazzo Litta with Variations, transforming its Cortile d\u2019Onore into a saturated, inhabitable landscape with Lina Ghotmeh\u2019s<\/a> Metamorphosis in Motion. The installation<\/a> occupies the courtyard as a dense, pink<\/a> spatial system that immediately shifts the reading of the baroque setting. The courtyard<\/a> reads as a dreamlike field in flux<\/a>, where perception loosens and space is continuously redefined through movement. Drawing from the ceremonial and spatial history of the palace, Ghotmeh frames the intervention as both fragment and performance. \u2018It\u2019s a baroque installation that plays with the fragment, but that also is about performance and all the ceremonial history that this palazzo has lived,\u2019 she shares with designboom.<\/p>\n

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The installation is organized as a continuous surface of steps, platforms, and partitions that guide bodies through a loose maze. There is no single path and no fixed hierarchy. Visitors cut across, pause, sit, and observe. From above, the layout reads almost like a plan turned solid, a figure-ground inversion where circulation thickens into form. What looks graphic at first becomes spatially dense once occupied. Conceived as a space to slow down within the intensity of design week, the project introduces a different temporal rhythm. \u2018It\u2019s a place where you can spend time, where you can sit down\u2026 a whole labyrinth that allows you to wind paths, and each path will lead you into a discovery and an encounter,\u2019 \u00a0Ghotmeh tells us<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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the pink intervention transforms the Cortile d\u2019Onore | all images by Nathalie Krag, unless stated otherwise<\/p>\n

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Lina Ghotmeh\u2019s installation contrasts with the historic shell<\/p>\n

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This intense, hot pink sits in contrast with the muted tones and symmetry of Palazzo Litta. The columns, arcades, and facades remain untouched, but their perception shifts. The installation doesn\u2019t imitate or defer to the historic context. It presses against it. Color becomes both atmosphere and statement. \u2018I wanted architecture to bring warmth and softness\u2026 the pink and the hues of red are ones that allow you to be engulfed in the sun,\u2019 the Lebanese-born<\/a> architect Linan Ghotmeh explains, linking the palette to ideas of care, presence, and a more human-centered spatial experience.<\/p>\n

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Across the piano nobile, 25 exhibitors extend this idea of transformation beyond the courtyard. The theme of Metamorphosis is treated less as a narrative and more as a working condition. Projects move between material research, fabrication techniques, and speculative proposals, often sitting somewhere between product, prototype, and installation.<\/p>\n

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platforms, steps, and cut-outs construct a dense field of circulation and rest | image by Takumi Ota<\/p>\n

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an open system shaped through movement and occupation<\/p>\n

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Instead of a linear sequence, MoscaPartners constructs a dispersed experience. Rooms open into one another without a strict hierarchy, echoing the non-linear logic of the courtyard intervention. The visitor is left to assemble their own route and interpretation. This lack of prescription feels intentional, reinforcing the idea that design today operates through systems and relationships rather than isolated objects.<\/p>\n

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For Ghotmeh, this openness is intentional. \u2018I always like to have an architecture that feels somehow unfinished (\u2026)so those fragments can still grow,\u2019 she tells designboom, framing the installation as a system that evolves through occupation.<\/p>\n

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Seen from above, the courtyard reads as a labyrinthine composition hovering between drawing and space. \u2018There\u2019s this idea of a dream-like space that is between reality and something that has a surreal quality,\u2019 she adds.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the project positions architecture as a shared, lived process. \u2018When I\u2019m talking about metamorphosis, I\u2019m talking about the transformation of space through the use of people,\u2019 Ghotmeh says, grounding the installation in collective experience rather than form alone.<\/p>\n

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geometric volumes guide movement without prescribing a fixed route | image by Takumi Ota<\/p>\n

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the installation sits in contrast with the baroque columns and muted facade | image by Takumi Ota<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"palazzo litta becomes a saturated field of movement \u00a0 At Milan Design Week 2026, MoscaPartners reactivates Palazzo Litta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,26316,182724,146,85,2581,46,7428,139333,2583],"class_list":{"0":"post-402757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-design-interviews","14":"tag-dreams-in-motion","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-il","17":"tag-interactive-installation","18":"tag-israel","19":"tag-lina-ghotmeh","20":"tag-milan-design-week-2026","21":"tag-pink"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}