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...just consider this a dirty sponsor for such a beautiful sport." He promises further protests when Le D?fi leaves France and on its arrival in Auckland in September. Just wait until the racing starts. CYCLING Downhill Race While the Giro d'Italia came to a sprint finish in Milan on Sunday there was one thing the race still couldn't seem to shake: the annual drug scandal. Although not on the same scale as last year, when 200 police raided the cyclists' hotel rooms seizing large quantities of medicines, it doesn't bode well for cycling's showcase, the Tour...
...went to the fair this year in a van, which he loaded with his top picks, drove back to London and installed them in just eight days in the V & A's new contemporary space. He selected 70 of what he considered the most important pieces on display in Milan and assembled them in an exhibition called "Milan in a Van," on display until June...
Glossy design magazines devote plenty of pages to the Milan fair, but this is furniture - better to see it up close. "Judging by the way people are pawing the pieces, people do want to see these things in person," Williams says. A problem, aside from the pawing, is that for every one of the fair's 175,000 visitors there are 175,000 different opinions on what constitutes best of show. Nonetheless, Williams came back with some winners. Universally loved was the tree-branch chandelier designed by Tord Boontje using Swarovski crystal. Williams selected only one of Milan's reissues...
...other drawback of "Milan in a Van" is that much of the fair's excitement is hard to capture. "The fair is not the interesting bit, it's the way various companies take over spaces and create installations of work," says Sarah Gaventa, a design curator at Scarlet Projects in London and a longtime Salone attendee. "It can be quite emotive. And that's what people go for." In an attempt to capture that excitement, "Milan in a Van" includes a documentary video of the fair. "The great thing about this show is that it shows museums can be spontaneous...
...COLLABORATION Seeing the Lights Some of the most fun in Milan comes from seeing which unusual suspects show up. The 107-year-old Austrian crystal-maker Swarovski has been making a splash in the fashion world by collaborating with edgy designers including Julien MacDonald and Alexander McQueen. This year Swarovski tried to make the same impact in Milan by teaming up with young industrial-design talents. The mission? To reinvent the chandelier. The seven resulting works did just that. Hella Jongerius made a chandelier frock. Georg Baldele created a rectangular "Glitter Box." But the favorite of V&A curator Gareth...