Artisan workshops in Milan

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• Handmade gifts in Milan: when to give the object and when to give the experience

  In Milan, buying an object is the easiest thing in the world, and that is precisely why gifts fall flat. Two ways out: a handmade piece and an experience to be had. They are not the same thing, and you do not choose them the same way.

• What to Do in Milan When It Rains: The Day You Don't Waste

  Milan gets around 920 millimetres of rain a year across 82 days: sooner or later it's your turn. The city is built for interiors, and the wet brings out the house museums, the frescoed churches and the workbenches nobody opens when the sun is out.

• The Milan of Workshops: Brera, Isola, the Navigli, Porta Romana and Lambrate, District by District

  In central Milan you still walk down streets named after goldsmiths, swordsmiths and armourers. The names stayed; the workshops mostly did not. Five districts that manual work passed through, lost, and partly found again.

• A Company Event in a Milan Craft Workshop: the Guide for Whoever Has to Organise It

  The brief always arrives the same way: this year, something other than the usual meeting room. But a workshop is not a room: capacity is counted in working stations, and the craft is chosen from the objective. An operational guide for HR and office managers in Milan.

• Creative team building in Milan: why working with your hands beats the escape room and the obligatory aperitivo

  An escape room selects; an aperitivo just rebuilds the office's usual sub-groups. A workbench does neither: what the studies say, how a two-hour session runs, and what people take back to work.

• A Different Weekend in Milan: Two Days Between Design and Things Made by Hand

  Milan is nearly always visited the same way, and nearly always disappoints for that reason. Yet this is the city where the Compasso d'Oro was born in 1954: a two-day itinerary alternating the design you look at with the design you make by hand.

• For Makers

  Running workshops in English in Milan for expats and students

  In Milan, a large part of the English-speaking audience is not on holiday: they live, study or work here. They are free in the evenings like the locals and, if they enjoy it, can come back.

• For Makers

  Running workshops in Milan: how to start while it's still early

  Format, space, timing, VAT number, profile and first date: the route to running workshops in Milan, in a city where nobody on Handsome is ahead of you yet.