For Milan Design Week 2026 , Fratelli Rossetti has turned the historic windows of its boutique at Corso Magenta 17 into an unexpected but entirely coherent encounter between footwear and sculpture.
On display from April 21 to 26 is Atlantico , a collection of vases and centerpieces designed by Andrea Ghisoni and promoted by Milan based art curator Riccardo Benedini , placed in direct dialogue with a selection of Fratelli Rossetti shoes. Carved from a Single Block Every piece in the Atlantico collection begins
with a single block of marble and a process of pure subtraction. Material is removed until only the essential form remains, monolithic, unadorned, and monomaterial.
The result is a series of objects that carry an inherent uniqueness: because no two blocks of marble are identical, no two pieces in the collection can be exactly replicated, making the natural variation of the stone itself a defining feature rather than an imperfection.
Marble varieties used across the collection include Verde Alpi and Nero Marquinia , each bringing its own tonal depth to the finished form. A Shared Language of Craft The dialogue between Atlantico and Fratelli Rossetti footwear is not incidental, it is the entire point.
What unites a carved marble vase and a handcrafted shoe is not category, but vocabulary: a shared commitment to material honesty, attention to detail, and the kind of slow, considered making that defines both disciplines…
