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of soda branded with one of the archetypes from his last fashion show: Drama Queen, Fashion Icon, Mega Pesantone, and Super Incazzata. Moving into the cloister, viewers encountered a series of tapestries depicting the history of the Gucci brand. In the first founder Guccio Gucci is shown as a late 19th-century bellboy at London's Savoy Hotel, where he recognized the growing need for trunks and cases, before returning to his native Florence and founding his leather goods house in the 1920s. The tapestries trace the Gucci story through the Tom Ford era and end with a cameo from Demna himself. Even more striking was the center of the includes a club chair in caramel Loro Piana cashmere and a walnut bench with a woven leather seat inspired by a Bottega Veneta bag. Ingrid Abramovitch Eames Office: Eames Pavilion System In partnership with the Barcelona-based manufacturer Kettal, Eames Office launched the Eames Pavilion System at Triennale Milano, reinforcing how architecture remains central to the Eames universe. Lightweight frames, modular grids, and adaptable structures carried the studio's spatial thinking into a contemporary context. Michelle Aviña Gucci Memoria It was one of the most talked-about installations at Milan Design Week — and for good reason. In the historic cloister of San Simpliciano, Gucci creative director Demna created an installation that was as insouciant as it was ravishing. The fun began in the cloister of the Romanesque monastery, where visitors scanned QR codes at a massive and minimalist black vending machine, which randomly dispensed a can cloisters — an early example of Renaissance architecture — where Demna planted a garden of colorful wildflowers inspired by Gucci's Flora motif, originally created for Grace Kelly. Ingrid Abramovitch Prada Frames: In Sight Now in its fifth edition, Prada's lecture series continued its journey across the design landscape. Staged within the historic Sacrestia of Santa Maria delle Grazie, the famous complex housing Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, this year's edition explored the impact of image making. More relevant than ever, In Sight looked at the cultural, political, and material implications of the importance of image in modern society. Michelle Aviña Dimoregallery The half-Italian, half-American duo behind one of Milan's hottest design firms, Dimorestudio, are known as much for making vintage tropes look chic again as they are for the theatricality of their Eames Pavilion System Dimoregallery The Grand Salon by March and White Design, L'Appartamento by Artemest SALVA LÓPEZ © ANDREA FERRARI MANFREDI GIOACCHINI Gucci Memoria tapestry Prada Frames, Santa Maria delle Grazie