Uniforms on Chairs by OLDER Studio curated by Valentina Ciuffi

With Uniforms on Chairs, the design duo OLDER Studio playfully explores the split identity of their practice: the impersonal seriality of uniforms in fashion versus the intimate, handcrafted uniqueness of their furniture pieces. In a surprising twist, they dress iconic chairs and rare design objects from Milan’s Nilufar collection in uniforms—transforming them into “furniture in uniform.” Imagined through a surreal lens and captured in a striking editorial style by photographer Louis De Belle, these hybrid objects blur the lines between person and thing. The exhibition, curated by Valentina Ciuffi, finds its perfect stage in The Great Design Disaster, the newly opened, irreverent project space on Via della Moscova by Joy Herro.