Barilla’s ARTISIA brings 3D printed pasta to Milan Design Week with Edible Reveries

ARTISIA, Barilla’s 3D printed pasta brand, will present Edible Reveries at via Melzo 34 in Milan’s Porta Venezia Design District from April 21 to 26, staging its first solo exhibition at Milan Design Week in collaboration with multidisciplinary studio Studio Yellowdot. All 3D printing for the installation is handled by LAMÁQUINA, a Barcelona-based company specializing in large-scale robotic additive manufacturing.

The exhibition places the design and production process at its center, tracing how algorithmic modeling and manual craftsmanship combine to generate new geometries in food form. Studio Yellowdot has developed Tattile, a site-specific furniture collection 3D printed in wood-composite filament, comprising a daybed, a rocking chair, and a chaise lounge with resting plates — each piece modeled after oversized pasta forms. The name references the Italian word for “tactile,” and the shapes incorporate contoured surfaces that echo the imprint of a fingertip pressing into dough. A video projection inside the space traces the full process from digital modeling to physical extrusion — framed by the brand as “from byte to bite” — while a curated soundscape runs throughout.

Tasting workshops and the Spaghetto 3D

Each afternoon from Tuesday through Saturday (4–7 pm) and Sunday mornings (10 am–1 pm), ARTISIA’s chefs will host free tasting workshops bookable via artisia.com. The workshops feature Spaghetto 3D—a single 6.2-meter filament of pasta interlaced into a complex sculptural structure—presented in gourmet recipes. Pasta tastings will be paired with non-alcoholic aperitifs from Cantina Pizzolato, a certified organic winery based in Treviso that produces dealcoholized cocktail-style drinks.

Studio Yellowdot also developed a new pasta shape for the exhibition—a finger-food piece designed around the gesture of picking up pasta with the fingertips—alongside the sculptural Tattile pasta collection, an infinity-shaped shell form with subtle indentations intended to be filled and customized.

Italian pasta meets large-format 3D printing

ARTISIA produces pasta collections by first digitally modeling each form, then hand-kneading semolina and water, and finally 3D printing the result. The brand describes itself as the first and only commercially available 3D printed pasta in the world. Its existing catalog draws from natural and geometric references—sea urchins, amphora forms, mushrooms, and seasonal shapes—and has supplied Michelin-starred chefs and custom event collections.

“With this exhibition, we honor a heritage shaped by generations of conviviality, while simultaneously reimagining pasta as a catalyst for new rituals and new forms of sharing,” said Valentina Parravicini, Marketing and Business Development Lead at ARTISIA. “Through a cross-disciplinary dialogue, design and engineering intersect with Italian culinary tradition and a bold spirit of experimentation.”

“With ARTISIA, we are rethinking tradition and how pasta is experienced. For us, 3D printed pasta isn’t just food but a gesture,” said Bodin Hon and Dilara Kan Hon, founders of Studio Yellowdot. “What starts in code becomes tangible, engaging sight, texture, and taste.”

Studio Yellowdot, founded by Dilara Kan Hon and Bodin Hon after they met at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, operates between Hong Kong and Istanbul. The studio has exhibited at Triennale di Milano and Odunpazarı Modern Museum and holds awards including the ADI Compasso d’Oro International Award, Red Dot Design Award, and iF Product Design Award.

LAMÁQUINA is present at Milan Design Week across three separate venues. In addition to handling all fabrication for Edible Reveries, the company is showing ceramic architectural façade panels developed with IOUS Studio at SaloneSatellite (Pavilion 7, Booth D17–E18) and a line of stone-waste lamps created with Santiago Carot and B&Y S.r.l. at Fabbrica Sassetti (Via Sassetti 31) as part of its No Space for Waste program.

Edible Reveries runs April 21–25 from 10 am to 7 pm, and April 26 from 10 am to 2 pm. A press preview is scheduled for April 20 from 11 am to 7 pm. The venue is via Melzo 34, Milan.