LEXUS PRESENTS SPACE INSTALLATION AT MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026
During Milan Design Week from April 21 to 26, 2026, LEXUS invites visitors to experience a boundary-pushing shift in mobility, presenting the SPACE installation at the heart of the Tortona district. Centered on the LEXUS LS Concept — a six wheel, chauffeur-driven concept vehicle first unveiled at the Japan Mobility Show 2025 — the exhibition aims to prove that mobility is no longer merely a means of reaching a destination, but a transformative experience in itself. Presented alongside the immersive installation, the LEXUS LS Concept rear-seat space also serves as a shared motif for creative reinterpretation, showcased in the collaborative project ‘Discover Together’.
LEXUS participates in Milan Design Week 2026 | all images courtesy of LEXUS
DISCOVER TOGETHER: REIMAGINING THE IDEA OF PERSONAL SPACE
LEXUS has consistently challenged the conventions of traditional luxury, shifting the focus from the product itself to the quality of time spent within it. For Milan Design Week 2026, the brand has evolved its long-standing design competition into ‘Discover Together,’ a collaborative project that moves beyond competition toward a shared exploration of future possibilities.
Under the theme ‘Discover Your Space,’ four global creative teams have used the vehicle’s rear-seat space as a blank canvas to explore the potential of space. Through exclusive insights shared with designboom, the creators reveal how these environments are reinterpreted through the lenses of comfort and limitless imagination, resulting in unique experiences for transportation.
LEXUS presents works created in collaboration with emerging creators
NEW POSSIBILITIES CREATED THROUGH FOUR CREATIVE PERSPECTIVES
The Japanese duo Kyotaro Hayashi and Yumi Kurotani use cinematic storytelling and spatial reality, exploring the interplay of light and texture to expand the perception of space. By incorporating materials that reflect and refract light, they have designed an environment that feels like a microcosm expanding infinitely, far beyond its physical footprint.
‘In a small space, placing a single object can create negative space around it, and sometimes that presence of emptiness makes the space feel larger,’ they explain, hinting at how they played with the illusion of space and its boundaries to create a personal sanctuary that feels boundless.
Japanese duo Kyotaro Hayashi and Yumi Kurotani
Furthering this exploration of boundaries is Italy’s Guardini Ciuffreda Studio. Founded by fashion designer Tiziano Guardini and architect Luigi Ciuffreda, the studio specializes in dissolving the lines between fashion, architecture, and natural systems. Their philosophy is rooted in material intelligence, using organic forms and tactile surfaces to create immersive environments designed to be lived rather than simply observed. For the SPACE installation, they argue that luxury and responsibility are linked by the concept of care.
‘Our interpretation shows that environmental responsibility and luxury can coexist because they share the same root: care – in designing processes, including their end of life, in the selection of materials, and in shaping experiential emotions that are memorable, lasting, and carry a message that feels alive. Every structure is a response to a force, every curve the result of a tension. This logic guided the design of geometries and connections, making the environment fluid, almost metabolic. Couture becomes architecture, light becomes matter, the visitor becomes an integral part of the composition. Space is no longer static, but behaves like a living system, capable of adapting and reacting,’ the studio shares.
Italy’s Guardini Ciuffreda Studio
Shifting from fluid, organic systems to interactive environments, the Amsterdam and Paris-based Random Studio focuses on innovative spaces that invite curiosity and play. By blending physical and digital spatial design, the independent studio transforms traditionally passive states into active dialogues between humans and their surroundings. For Milan Design Week 2026, they present an installation that is highly sensitive to presence, where the environment adjusts in response to the visitor.
‘Rather than presenting technology as spectacle, we integrate it into the spatial logic of the installation. In that sense, the visitor is not simply a passenger. Their presence influences the atmosphere, and the atmosphere responds in return. What emerges is a subtle dialogue between human and environment, where personal space is not predefined, but discovered,’ the studio describes.
Amsterdam and Paris-based Random Studio
Finally, one more vision is presented, grounded in a collaboration between LEXUS in-house designers and master artisans who sustain Japan’s tradition of craftsmanship. The project bridges the work of world-class automobile patternmakers with centuries-old techniques, including Kumiko latticework from the Suzuka Mountains, Inagaki stonework, and Tendo Mokko bentwood. The team sought to express an infinite universe within a confined area, treating traditional crafts as an artistic language rather than mere ornamentation.
‘What appears to be a serene, static material reveals entirely different characters depending on the viewing angle and the passage of time. There are intricate layers that only become visible upon close inspection, and I invite everyone to experience this immersive density and texture firsthand in Milan,’ the team explains.
LEXUS in-house designers
Discover Together 2026 adopts the rear-seat space of the LEXUS LS Concept as its shared motif, utilizing it as a foundational structure for creative reinterpretation. Under the theme ‘Discover your Space,’ the exhibition explores uniquely private environments, isolated from the noise of the outside world and filled with a sense of security and comfort. As the concept of mobility continues to evolve, the interior space is reinterpreted through each creator’s vision to showcase how movement can empower individual lifestyles and reshape the experience of time and space.
Presented alongside these immersive works, the SPACE installation serves as a broader look at the brand’s vision of ‘space’ within a luxury lifestyle. Within this vision, the LEXUS LS Concept is transformed from a chauffeur-driven vehicle into an experience in itself — a personal, moving haven that moves the entire space around the passenger.
Experience the SPACE installation and the works of the Discover Together project at DAYLIGHT HALL in SUPERSTUDIO PIU’, Tortona District, from April 21–26, 2026.
the LEXUS LS Concept, first unveiled at the Japan Mobility Show 2025, is presented as a central piece of the immersive installation ‘SPACE’
the Discover Together 2026 works adopt the LEXUS LS Concept rear-seat space as its shared motif, utilizing it as a foundational structure for creative reinterpretation
the interior space is reinterpreted through each creator’s vision, reshaping the experience of time and space
under the theme ‘Discover your Space,’ the exhibition explores uniquely private environments
the exhibition aims to prove that mobility is no longer merely a means of reaching a destination, but a transformative experience in itself
project info:
installation: SPACE / Discover Together
brand: LEXUS | @discoverlexus
theme: SPACE and Discover your Space
participants: Kyotaro Hayashi and Yumi Kurotani; Guardini Ciuffreda Studio; Random Studio; LEXUS in-house designers
location: Via Tortona 27
dates: April 21-26, 2026
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