Each year, T’s editor in chief, Hanya Yanagihara, commissions a different artist or designer to create an installation on the grounds of the Villa Necchi Campiglio, a grand 1930s-era private home turned museum in Milan. The occasion: a party to celebrate the beginning of the city’s annual Salone del Mobile design fair. Past artists have made trompe l’oeil cities and fantastical flower gardens. But the idea for this year’s iteration, overseen by the American sculptor and designer Misha Kahn, 35, was simple: “The concept for the party,” he said, “was ‘party.’”
April 8, 2025