Design cannot exist without dialogue. For this year's Salone del Mobile, Lambert & Fils and DWA Design Studio present Caffè Populaire: a six-day concept restaurant inspired by this shared ideal. Hosted at Alcova, Caffè Populaire brings people and objects into dynamic encounters with one another through the essentiality of food.
Milan’s renowned DWA studio offers a series of layered scenographies designed to incite curiosity and reinvigoration within viewers. New contemporary lighting collections from celebrated Montreal design studio Lambert & Fils fill the sprawling rooms of the defunct panettone factory, creating a conversation of opposites — raw and refined, past and present.
Rest and reprieve can be found at one of Caffè Populaire’s tables in which materials summon presentness through tactility. Transformative interventions create an environment of generosity and gathering, a place for ideas activated by those who inhabit it.