FOR ONE FLEETING week every April, Salone del Mobile, the Milan furniture fair, turns a historically taciturn northern Italian city into a roiling, barely navigable bacchanal hyping new design ideas and talent. At last week’s 57th edition, women in design made a noticeable splash. Chiara Andreatti, India Mahdavi, Bethann Laura Wood and Cristina Celestino all took star turns; Milan-based Patricia Urquiola’s studio showed new work—often in the sunset colors that seemed ubiquitous—for no fewer than 20 brands. Fun fads like checkerboard patterns (at Hermès and Bottega Veneta Home) settled in among slow-burn movements like...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 27, 2018 14:15 UTC