Lake Como Design Festival is a themed annual event that offers exhibitions, reflections and studies approached through a series of events in the historic centre of the city of Como and around the lake that bears its names. These exhibitions, talks and events take place in historical, unknown, and almost forgotten places in the Como area and in the city itself. The festival mission is to establish an original dialogue between history, architecture, design, and art. Lake Como Design Festival was conceived and promoted by Wonderlake Como, a collection of ideas and people that take up an extra-ordinary point of view on the community and setting of Lake Como. Wonderlake Como carries out publishing projects and organises cultural events with the aim of promoting, in Italy and worldwide, a modern and integrated image of an area that has always had a strong identity.
On the occasion of the sixth edition, the Lake Como Design Festival enriches its program with a series of exhibitions and special events in Como and around its lake. Developed around the theme of lightness, the red thread of this new event that accompanies the visitor on a widespread journey, the exhibitions will be open to visitors from 15 to 22 September 2024. In the historic center of Como the festival will take place between the Palazzo del Broletto and the church of San Pietro in Atrio while on the lakeside, Villa del Grumello and the other locations within the Chilometro della Conoscenza will take center stage. Furthermore, Villa Anna in Cernobbio and Borgovico33 in the city center will present two special projects by the Grieder Contemporary gallery, while various locations scattered across Como will host the site-specific installations created by the artist Valerio Eliogabalo Torrisi.