For Milan Design Week 2026, Fratelli Rossetti has turned the historic windows of its boutique at Corso Magenta 17 into an unexpected but entirely coherent encounter between footwear and sculpture. On display from April 21 to 26 is Atlantico, a collection of vases and centerpieces designed by Andrea Ghisoni and promoted by Milan based art curator Riccardo Benedini, placed in direct dialogue with a selection of Fratelli Rossetti shoes.
Carved from a Single Block
Every piece in the Atlantico collection begins with a single block of marble and a process of pure subtraction. Material is removed until only the essential form remains, monolithic, unadorned, and monomaterial. The result is a series of objects that carry an inherent uniqueness: because no two blocks of marble are identical, no two pieces in the collection can be exactly replicated, making the natural variation of the stone itself a defining feature rather than an…
imperfection. Marble varieties used across the collection include Verde Alpi and Nero Marquinia, each bringing its own tonal depth to the finished form. A Shared Language of Craft The dialogue between Atlantico and Fratelli Rossetti footwear is not incidental, it is the entire point.
What unites a carved marble vase and a handcrafted shoe is not category, but vocabulary: a shared commitment to material honesty, attention to detail, and the kind of slow, considered making that defines both disciplines.
Fratelli Rossetti, founded in Milan in 1953 by Renzo Rossetti, has built its reputation on precisely this kind of craft first philosophy, and Atlantico speaks that same language in a different medium.
The Creative Team Behind the Windows The window installation was developed with set designer Sonia Pravato, who conceived a light, permeable composition, open to gaze and natural light, that allows the marble objects and shoes to breathe within the space rather than compete for attention…
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