Reference Library

The exhibition, with an installation designed by Milanese architecture practice studioutte, takes place at the JIL SANDER showroom in central Milan from April 20 to 24, 2026. Chrome lecterns stand in rows, each one pooled in a warm reading beam, their reflections carried back by a mirrored wall. It is a space designed for the pleasure of looking closely, of moving from one title to the next with nowhere else to be. Upon registration, with 60 slots available per hour, each visitor is invited into the library and given a pair of white gloves. A small ritual that changes how you handle something, how much care you bring to it. The books are there to be picked up, opened, and read. They stay in the exhibition, but the gloves are for each reader to keep: a quiet souvenir of time well spent.

Sixty books. Sixty perspectives. Offered as a collection of open doors. Perhaps one will find you at exactly the right time. That is, after all, how it has always worked.