Milan: ‘Muller Van Severen did not emerge slowly or shyly. It arrived almost fully formed, as a shared language that felt immediate and inevitable’, writes Hannes Van Severen in the introduction to A Lot of Work. In keeping with how their creative partnership began, our collaboration with Muller Van Severen was anything but shy.
Our exhibition at Milan Design Week 2026 Silhouettes: Celebrating 15 Years was an ode to Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen’s distinctive design language, and our book A Lot of Work a love letter to their decade-and-a-half-long quest to rethink the everyday. We presented both projects with a party, where the Belgian design duo signed copies of the monograph for guests who had wound their way through the towering candleholders on display and up the stairs to the Apartamento Bookshop. Alongside signed copies of A Lot of Work, guests could take home Muller Van Severen hats and our latest collaboration with BD Barcelona Silhouettes—a collection of raw aluminum candleholders, palm-sized iterations of four of the giants seen in the exhibition. Scroll through to see photos from the Muller Van Severen world we created at Milan Design Week 2026, captured by Marcello Raguso.
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