Craft Punk: A Series of Design Performances at Spazio Fendi During Salone Del Mobile

For the first time, Design Miami/ is curating an event outside its own territories in a unique partnership with FENDI.

Taking place during Salone del Mobile, "Craft Punk" will expand on the Design Performance programme that is a highlight of Design Miami/.

"Craft Punk" will transform the 750m2 Spazio FENDI into an active environment for social interaction, unruly intellectual inquiry and action- based design processes by inviting emerging designers to work within traditional, or hand-made, craft methods.

The designers can use discarded materials from the FENDI production process, such as Selleria leather, branded fabrics, plastic decorative elements, and metal hardware.

Demonstrating the creation process live and onsite, they will reinvent the way a process or material is typically employed.

In a true collaboration between the worlds of design and fashion, the designers will also have the opportunity to draw on the expertise of artisans from FENDI's Selleria line, many of whom have more than 40 years experience working with leather and other signature FENDI materials.

The Design Performances will bring together music, video, live demonstrations, and conversation, in celebration of the importance of originality, creativity and freedom of expression in design.