an 18th-century carousel reborn in milan

At Milan Design Week 2026 , Laila Gohar presents her collaboration with ARKET through a public installation at Giardino delle Arti, where a reworked fairground carousel becomes the central device for introducing her first ready-to-wear collection.

The installation takes the form of an antique carousel adapted from a rare late-18th-century model, its horses replaced by oversized fruits and vegetables. The shift is immediate and legible. Familiar objects are enlarged, displaced, and set into motion, turning a childhood structure into something closer to a staged environment for adults.

Gohar’s work has long operated in this territory, using food as both material and image. Here, that language expands into space. The carousel rotates slowly, creating a continuous loop of repetition and variation, where scale and material alter perception without obscuring the source.…