Milan Design Week 2026
Kerakoll Brera Studio
On the occasion of the Milano Design Week, Kerakoll presented Teatro della Vita, the installation that transformed the space into an abstract urban environment made of surfaces, perspectives, and architectural details.
Teatro della Vita drew inspiration from “Proposition pour une petite ville”, a work created by Nathalie Du Pasquier e George Sowden in 1984 and now part of the Centre Pompidou collection. The project took shape as an imaginary city: a space composed of essential volumes, painted façades, and urban geometries where color and architecture came together to build a shared narrative.
The 1,500 shades of the new Kerakoll Colors palette became the medium through which material, light, and color defined welcoming and dynamic spaces, conceived on a human scale.
The journey began already from the windows of the Brera Studio, which became the first interface between the installation and the city. Clad in fragments of Teatro della Vita, they introduced the project’s visual language and invited passersby, peering through them, to step into this chromatic landscape.
Thank you for coming and discovering Teatro della Vita during Milan Design Week.
See you next year!
For Kerakoll, we imagined a rich, sensory environment able to bridge the gap between post-modern idealism and modern materials technology. Our painted façades use colour and texture to bring a warm, interesting definition to the setting, creating spaces that are inviting rather than imposing. Teatro della Vita is the stage our lives play out on. The city is the backdrop to our existence.
— Nathalie Du Pasquier and George Sowden