After nine years of ongoing exploration across the city of Milan — from former factories and military hospitals to modernist villas and industrial ruins — and three editions in Miami, Alcova moves on to a new emergent epicentre of international energy in design and contemporary art, inaugurating its first Latin American edition in Mexico City for Art Week coming February.
For its 11th edition, Alcova returned to Milan, where two radically different contexts — the former an expression of mid-20th-century Rationalism, the latter a vast, layered institutional complex — set the stage for an edition that moved between rediscovery and experimentation, research and contemporary material culture.
Alcova Miami was a blast! Thank you for visiting at Miami River Inn, the city’s oldest hotel, located in the South River Drive Historic District of East Little Havana.
Alcova Milano 2026 has come to a close. For seven days, from April 20 to 26, Baggio Military Hospital and Villa Pestarini came alive with the presence of more than 130 exhibitors and the thousands of visitors who moved through them. The vast, layered expanse of Baggio and the measured intimacy of Villa Pestarini offered two very different ways of moving through architecture, yet together they formed a single landscape of exploration, where each corridor, courtyard, garden, staircase, or threshold opened onto new encounters between objects and people.
Alcova Miami unfolded in its third chapter during Miami Art Week, once again inhabiting the Miami River Inn, one of the city’s oldest hotels, where pastel façades and tropical vegetation create an unexpected pocket of calm in East Little Havana’s historic district, a kind of urban jungle hidden inplain sight.
Alcova returned to Varedo for its ninth edition, reaffirming Milan’s identity as a designcapital in constant growth, expansion, and transformation. Alongside the historic residences of Villa Borsani and Villa Bagatti Valsecchi, Alcova introduced two new locations: the former SNIA factory and the Pasino Glasshouses
The second international edition of Alcova unfolded at Miami’s historic River Inn, the city’s oldest hotel, nestled in the vibrant South River Drive Historic District in East Little Havana, just steps from the Miami River.
The seventh edition of Alcova was held in two of the most extraordinary villas of the Milan metropolitan area: Villa Borsani and Villa Bagatti Valsecchi.
On the occasion of Miami Art Week 2023, Alcova announced its first overseas edition, set in the Gold Dust Motel, one of the architectural icons of Miami's modernist period.
With its fifth edition, Alcova continued its exploration of the city of Milan with an exciting new location – the former Porta Vittoria abattoir on Via Molise.
Alcova brought back to life its beautiful Inganni location, where design merges with nature, expanding its search for unique places even further and opening the doors to a new section never before accessible to the public.
Alcova opened to the public another Milanese site just a few steps away from the Inganni metro station: three historical buildings of extraordinary charm, immersed in a large urban park.
Alcova was located in the former panettone factory of Giovanni Cova & Co., north of Loreto—an ex-industrial space partly taken over by plants and vegetation, frozen in a state of poetic semi-abandonment.
Alcova Milano combines design with art, architecture and other disciplines to create multi-layered and surprising presentations that go far beyond traditional design exhibitions. Heimtextil Trends 25/26 thus looks at textiles in a new light and integrates both historical and forward-looking influences.
A unique process to anodize aluminium with plant-based dyes presented daily through workshops onsite. Come find LoopLoop’s visionary work in the heart of Milano, at Rinascente, in the context of Alcova Design Shop.
