Prendete & Mangiate - Milan Design Week 2025

5VIE Design Week
Milan, 2025

It’s not the usual table, 
the one where we eat and drink, 
but a place where things are 
without the need for words, 
without the necessity of answers. 
A place where you can feel 
without touching, 
where stories don’t need to be spoken 
to be equally shared. 

Vases, ceramics, glasses and mirrors, 
objects that collect 
without wanting to, 
that hold what is unsaid, 
the invisible that brushes against the air. 
It’s no longer food, 
it’s what remains, 
the small crack, the fold, 
what hides in every silence.

On 5VIE Design Week Spazio Giallo Interiors presented an exhibition “Prendiate & Mangiate”. The exhibition explored the theme of the table in a more poetic and conceptual light: the table as a meeting place. The poetess Patrizia Cavalli once said that when leaving the table, what matters is what remains: the stories, the silences, the emotions that linger. Exhibition explored the concept of the table, not as a traditional formal banquet, but as a space for meeting, exchanging, and listening, where one reflects not only on the visible aspects but also on what remains hidden. It is a symbol that transcends the material and becomes a vehicle for reflections on our relationship with the world and with others. 

Each piece became a vessel for untold stories, inviting visitors to explore the invisible, to look beyond the surface and perceive what is imperceptible, what cannot be seen but can be felt. It was an invitation to look beyond appearances and explore the content, which is not limited to form but serves as a vehicle for emotions and deep meanings. 

“Prendete & Mangiate” was organised by Spazio Giallo Interiors
Curation: Carolina Levi
“Forgotten Tablecloth” by lessico familiare
Artists: Francesca Anfossi, Sara Bergami, Chiara Berta, Marta & Marco Bevilacqua, Cotta Studio, Teresa Lobelia D'arienzo, Alice  Del Ferraro, Claudia Di Francesco, Ferdie, Gaspard Fleury-Dugy, Fusion f., Jan Garncarek & Ewelina Makosa, Pia Glassworks, Zazie Gnecchi Ruscone, Chiara Grifantini, Hana Hillerová, Astrid Luglio, Guglielmo Maggini, Charlie Masson,  Olimpia Montani, Ylaria Pavone, Dorian Renard, Giulio Rigoni, Gala Rotelli, Andrew Pierce Scott, StudioNotte, Szkło  Studio, Mario Trimarchi, Umberto Ughi, Ùtol Ceramica, Yellowdot
Photography: Serena Eller Vainicher, Stefania Zanetti
Supported by: Artisia