Design studio blond creates casa blond Brera residency

East London design studio, blond, to create casa blond – a pop-up residency in the Brera Design District during Milan Design Week, 17 - 23 April 2023. casa blond will host the full blond studio team throughout the Fuorisalone week, running blond artefacts interactive design sessions for visitors and exhibiting a self-initiated furniture project called the Peel Chair.

casa blond will also play host to blond’s collaboration with two exciting start-up clients. Tesoro, a sustainably driven British homeware company, will soft launch their brand and first product — a homeware-driven and inspired refillable candle. Impulse, a US home electrification startup that decloaked in November 2022 after raising $25m in total funding, will preview its first product — a battery-integrated induction stove.

Free ticketed exhibition. Register here: eepurl.com/ih08BH

This April, for Milan Design Week 2023, East London-based design studio, blond, will relocate their full team to casa blond - a dedicated pop-up space and design residency in the Brera Design District of the Fuorisalone.

In celebration of the Salone, across the week, the studio will run blond artefacts - a series of live interactive design sessions for visitors to share in and experience their unique working process. Within blond artefacts, visitors will be encouraged to find ‘offline’ inspiration from real objects selected by blond’s designers and create a sketch in response to their selected inspiration. Each day of Salone, designs will be selected and brought to life by the blond team using 3D printers featured in the space.

To paint a full picture of the studio’s work – from inspiration and process, through to solution - casa blond will also host a display of new work created for two of the studio’s latest clients: San Francisco home electrification start-up, Impulse, and sustainably-driven British homeware brand, Tesoro. Presented in individual ‘spazios’ within casa blond across a series of interlinking rooms, the products for today’s ‘home’ that will be exhibited include; blond’s Peel Chair, a preview of Impulse’s next-generation battery-integrated induction stovetop and an exploratory exhibition of refillable aroma candles and future homeware products by Tesoro.

An aperitivo hour held at 17.00 across the week, where visitors will have an opportunity to meet with representatives for blond, Impulse and Tesoro with light refreshments and snacks available.

An after-hours casa blond x dezeen house party will also be held to celebrate the Fuorisalone on Tuesday 18th April, 18:00 - 22:30. Register for your free tickets via Eventbrite: casa-blond-MDW23-house-party.eventbrite.co.uk