Capsule Plaza presents Expanded Living

Spazio Maiocchi – Via Achille Maiocchi 3-5-7-8, Milan
Satellite Venue 1 – Via Achille Maiocchi 23, Milan
Satellite Venue 2 – Piazza Risorgimento 8, Milan
Tuesday 8th – Sunday 13th April
Opening times: 10am – 8pm

Porta Venezia Design District 2025

Capsule Plaza presents Expanded Living

From 7—13 April 2025, Capsule Plaza returns for its third edition, continuing to infuse Milan Design Week with new energy while expanding its global reach.

Capsule Plaza 2025 is co-curated by Capsule’s founder and creative director ALESSIO ASCARI with architect PAUL COURNET. The claim of this year’s edition, EXPANDED LIVING, advances the idea of design as a total experience, pushing the boundaries of domesticity and reshaping lifestyles through hybrid habitats.

With the 2025 edition, SPAZIO MAIOCCHI — a striking industrial cathedral turned cultural destination — will introduce an EXTENSION across the street, a former gym and pool newly renovated by ASA Office. Additionally, Capsule Plaza will extend to two satellite venues in the Porta Venezia area, a former garage in VIA MAIOCCHI 23 and a high-end retail space in PIAZZA RISORGIMENTO 8.

A hybrid between a fair and a collective exhibition, Capsule Plaza will once again bring together designers and companies from various creative fields, bridging industry and culture with a bold and multisensory curation that spans interiors and architecture, beauty and technology, innovation and craft.

In tandem with the opening, Capsule will release the fourth issue of the MAGAZINE

— an annual publication reimagining the notion of radical design for today.

Exhibitors

Capsule Plaza’s lineup across all venues includes: HEM feat. Formafantasma, Yrjö Kukkapuro, Max Lamb, Kwangho Lee, Philippe Malouin, Soft Baroque, and Faye Toogood; STONE ISLAND feat. Friendly Pressure; XL EXTRALIGHT feat. Sabine Marcelis; HUMANRACE feat. USM Haller; NO-GA feat. NM3, Willo Perron, and Paul Frankl; PAN x NIKE; HYDRO feat. Sabine Marcelis, Stefan Diez, Cecilie Manz, Keiji Takeuchi, and Daniel Rybakken; VOWELS feat. Waka Waka; design galleries SALON94 feat. Philippe Malouin x Lehni and FRIEDMAN BENDA feat. Misha Kahn; LACIVIDINA feat. Pierre Paulin; and special projects by Konstantin Grcic, Harry Nuriev & Tyler Billinger, Sam Chermayeff Office, and Arpa Studios.

Public program

The installations will be accompanied by a robust program of talks, workshops, listening sessions, and pop—ups that tap into a wide range of creators. Functional and interactive spaces will be activated throughout the week – including a

gift shop presented in partnership with RICHARD LAMPERT, lounge areas by KARIMOKU and UMA OBJECTS, a kitchen space by 70MATERIA and ELICA, and a cafe and ice cream parlor designed by GEORG JENSEN.