Design-hunting is never more fun or hectic than when I’m running around Milan’s Design Week. This year is the 50th anniversary of the event known as I Saloni, which started out in 1961 with 328 exhibitors and has now grown to encompass 2,500 design companies whose booths stretch across massive new fairgrounds, off-site shows in the Tortona and Lambrate neighborhoods, and events in galleries and stores around the city. It is one magnificent designfest, and it starts as soon as you’re off the plane. The first thing I spied on my way to the Temporary Museum for New Design in Tortona were these airborne Mini Coopers, which certainly set the tone for the week. Photo: Wendy Goodman