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The retrospective dedicated to designers Lella and Massimo Vignelli will close at Triennale Milano in Milan on Sunday, 6 September 2026. The announcement, issued by the institution on 2 September, describes the pair as decisive figures in the development of international design and graphic design.
The exhibition is part of Triennale Milano’s summer programme and is being presented at the institution’s Milan venue. It will remain open through its final day, with the museum’s newsletter listing visiting hours for the current exhibitions as 10.30am to 8pm. The supplied exhibition notice does not specify an opening date, curator, ticket price, exhibition designer or the number and type of works on view.
Lella and Massimo Vignelli worked across design and graphics, fields that the announcement identifies as central to their international influence. Beyond that description, the available material does not provide a detailed account of the retrospective’s sections, objects, commissions or archival material, and no individual works are named in the closing notice.
The exhibition is presented within an institution whose programme spans art, design, architecture and culture. Triennale Milano also houses the Museo del Design Italiano, whose permanent collection comprises approximately 400 design objects produced between the 1920s and the 2000s. The museum’s design activity provides a broader institutional setting for a retrospective focused on the Vignellis, although the available information does not state how the exhibition relates to the permanent collection.
The closing date follows a wider September transition at Triennale Milano. Other exhibitions advertised by the institution, including presentations devoted to Francesco Clemente and the design studio Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, are also listed as ending on 6 September. Those exhibitions are separate from the Vignelli retrospective: the Clemente show surveys the painter’s practice from the late 1970s to the present, while ‘Alphabet’ is the first retrospective devoted to Barber Osgerby and covers the studio’s projects from the mid-1990s to 2022.
Visitors therefore have until 6 September to see the Lella and Massimo Vignelli retrospective at Triennale Milano, with the advertised exhibition hours running from 10.30am to 8pm.
