Square Acacia X trivet from Crate and Barrel, $13 from crateandbarrel.com

Delightfully simple, yet wonderfully functional, the rainbow-hued trivet offers an attractive way to protect tabletops from hot pots. $20 from areaware.com.

Brass trivet by Oji Masanori, $90 from muhshome.com

Little Big trivet by byAMT, $20 from areaware.com.

A look at the SaloneSatellite exhibition.

MID-CENTURY MODERN TRIVET $45 – $100 Designed by Fredrick Arndt in eco-friendly American black walnut, this trivet is right up our ally. We love the variation in the wood grain pattern and the sleek and structured design. It's a perfect bit of modernity for the table.

White marble triangle trivet by Fort Standard, $88 from store.dwell.com.

Fin trivet by Souda, $60 from americandesignclub.com.

Creative workshops allow youngsters a chance to explore art and gives Nike a way to market product. Nike allows visitors to the locations to customize products in a way not otherwise possible. By offering a different set of materials than what's available to the greater public, visitors feel they have ownership in the retail experience, as seen here in Milan.

Nike Stadium space offers a series of programming set in tandem with the sporting calendar as shown in the Milan location. Merging the idea of creating products and viewing sport, all with bolts of color, plays out well in this location.

Industrial design studio Fort Standard has created this sleek Marble Trivet out of cut stone in a simple geometric shape. Described by designers Gregory Buntain and Ian Collings as imbued with a “warm-contemporary aesthetic,” the White Marble Trivet adds sophistication to a dining room, kitchen, or living room space.

Brooklyn-based industrial design studio Fort Standard has created this sleek Marble Trivet out of cut stone in three simple geometric shapes. Described by designers Gregory Buntain and Ian Collings as imbued with a “warm-contemporary aesthetic,” the White Marble Trivet is a sophisticated gift.

Sado Trivet: Manufactured by Apartment Japan “We sourced these through a colleague in Japan. They’re handmade and come from an island off Japan’s west coast. They’re so simple and beautifully made, with that small loop you can use to hang on the wall, you can’t improve on them.”

What’s your best seller? Our Nesting trivet set ($150) that can also be used as a fruit bowl. The response seems to come from the dual function, the story of collaborating with Arrowhead, and the beauty of the design.

Spiral trivet set by Good Thing, $100 from americandesignclub.com.

Brooklyn-based industrial design studio Fort Standard has created this sleek Marble Trivet out of cut stone in a simple geometric shape. Described by designers Gregory Buntain and Ian Collings as imbued with a “warm-contemporary aesthetic,” the White Marble Trivet adds sophistication to a kitchen or dining room.

A look inside the @fondazioneachillecastiglioni, which is filled with prototypes, models, humble objects Castiglione collected, and more ephemera that you can imagine. The Foundation began a digitization project in the early 2000s and still discovers new work in the hundreds of files.

Iskos-Berlin’s Birth of Marilyn is a lampshade meant to evoke a skirt lifted by the wind. The duo behind the brand strives to develop products using rationalized production processes to generate a minimal waste of materials and other resources. The lampshades are made from two layers of mostly recycled PET felt.

Lighting, made from minimal materials including half pipe and woodstock make for a simple and effective table lamp.

Canal, Moraine and Gravel textiles by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Kvadrat were on display at Milan Furniture Week.

This is the installation The Ark at the Milan Triennale in 1986.

Dwell will host a weeklong exhibition of work from the catalog of American designer Stephen Burks. See it in Arcade Casati (enter at Via San Gregori 43 or Via F. Casati 32).

The metaphors uniting the different facets of the Cenni di Cambiamento housing development in Milan are community and sustainability, so it only follows the mixed-use project would also be a showcase of timber-frame construction.

Milanese architect Mario Bellini at home. Photo by Davide Pizzigoni.

SQ Trivet by David Okum for Field, $90 at Field Online Using simple manufacturing processes (bended steel with a ceramic coating), Okum's American-made trivet brings minimalism to the countertop. Watch the fabrication in action at Field.

Winning the International Highrise Award award, these forested towers, designed by Stefano Boeri, were cited as a powerful example of the symbiosis possible between architecture and nature—representative of a great possibility for new developments in high-density areas.

The Urban Stories exhibition at Palazzo Litta included work by Daniel Libeskind, Alvin Huang, and Venini, in addition to Italian-Danish duo GamFratesi's pieces for Gubi.

"The Construction of a Collection and a Collection of Constructions" series by Nathalie Du Pasquier for Disegno. See it at Corso di Porta Nuova 46/b.

"Street Print" by Anne Fabricius Møller. See it at the "Mindcraft" exhibition of emerging Danish design at Ventura Lambrate, Via Ventura 14.

Terrazzo Project by Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard and Philippe-Albert Lefebvre arranged the pair's innovative TP panels into a house of cards formation. The panels are made of resin cement and stone aggregates cast onto corrugated aluminium sheets, which make them 50% lighter than traditional slabs (as well as stain proof, UV stable and suitable for both indoor and outdoor use).

Materials Village presentation on material innovation. See it at Triennale Di Milano, Viale Alemagna 6.

Cheburashka table set by Luca Nichetto. See it at the "Walk the Line" exhibition, Rossana Orlandi, Via Matteo Bandello 14-16.