6AM Glass Furniture Revitalizes Abandoned Milan Pool House

This article highlights Murano glass studio 6AM and their exhibition Over and Over and Over and Over, staged during Milan Design Week.

The show explores repetition as a formal and material strategy in artisanal glassmaking, presented within the atmospheric setting of a defunct 1929 pool house.

From monumental glass columns to intimate lighting fixtures, the installation redefines the historic space through the hands-on craft of Murano glass.

Exhibition concept and venue

At the heart of the display is a meditation on repetition as a driving force in artisanal production.

6AM leverages the rhythm of making—casting, texturing, melting—across a curated sequence of works that shift in light and perception throughout the day.

The setting, Piscina Guido Romano, is a former pool house designed by Luigi Lorenzo Secchi in 1929.

It is renowned for its central light-filled hall and surrounding changing rooms.

The architecture itself becomes part of the exhibit, inviting viewers to contemplate how material experience changes with time and place.

Notable works and material innovations

The show introduces a range of pieces that demonstrate a discipline of repetition—from the monumental to the delicate.

Key works include:

• Two monolithic columns, nearly five metres tall, composed of three-millimetre-thick rolled glass panels mounted on metal structures.
• One column is a vivid blue with silvery reflections from manganese traces, while the other is a black column streaked with white, creating a stark, tactile contrast.
• Paysage walls, a structural system of hand-textured glass plates conceived with local architect Hannes Peer that evokes traditional glass brick walls.
• A standout piece is a limited-edition black Paysage wall, notable for the technical difficulty and cost of producing black Murano glass, realized during a final furnace melt.
• The emptied central hall houses the gleaming, cast-iron-moulded glass cubes that served as seating for Bottega Veneta’s Spring/Summer 2026 show.
• These cubes are installed in ten candy-like colours against a transparent floor-to-ceiling glass wall.
• Sequences of sconce lamps with mixed striped and transparent patterns, amorphous glass stools on a reflective platform, and a glowing exit sign in lattimo glass populate the former changing rooms.
• The milky finish of the exit sign is achieved through screen-printed lattimo technology.

Lighting, texture, and the experience of space

“Over and Over and Over and Over” uses light as a primary material.

The Murano glass surfaces are not static; their translucency, color depth, and gloss respond to natural daylight and synthetic lighting alike.

This invites viewers to witness continual change.

The project shows how repetition in craft can generate evolving textures and tones, turning a single material into a spectrum of experiences.

Venue, date, and context for professionals

Over and Over and Over and Over runs from 19 to 26 April 2026 at Piscina Romano, Via Ampère 24, Milan.

The exhibition is photographed by DSL Studio, capturing the interplay between glass, light, and the historic architecture.

For architecture and engineering practitioners, the show demonstrates how historic venues can be reinterpreted through contemporary craft.

It focuses on materializing repetition through process, scale, and lighting strategy.

Why this matters for architecture and design practice

• Repetition as a design principle can be material and procedural. This is reflected in the three-millimetre glass panels and the multiplicity of forms created by 6AM.
• Collaboration between craftspeople and architects is evident in the Paysage wall’s development with Hannes Peer. This process produces new structural ideas inspired by traditional glass brick systems.
• Lighting strategies transform historic interiors. Contemporary glasswork can reinvigorate and reinterpret spaces with minimal intervention.

 
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