MILAN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 24, 2026--
Wu Bin, founder of W.DESIGN, returns to Milan Design Week 2026, invited by INTERNI Editor-in-Chief Gilda Bojardi. He is the first Chinese interior designer invited three consecutive years.
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At Cortile d'Onore, the installation offers a Mental Shanshui space for traversing and contemplation. Responding to theme MATERIAE, it connects body, space, and consciousness through materiality.
The name "AO TING Court" captures the spirit of Eastern spatial design and the essence of mountain-and-water aesthetics.
“Ào” in Eastern aesthetics suggests depth and poetic subtlety, where space unfolds through concealment. “Tíng” is a man-made courtyard, a place where people and nature meet. Together, they form a “mental Shanshui” within a limited space.
Ao Ting Court follows two material strategies: translating Eastern mountain-and-stone imagery and pursuing refined craftsmanship. Using three black materials of distinct textures, the installation frames an Eastern narrative in which materials evolve through weathering over time, while a fluid, accessible spatial sequence reveals a layered experience of shifting views.
Venue: Cortile d’Onore, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Dates: 20 – 30 April 2026
Artist
Wu Bin, the founder of W.DESIGN, has extensive experience in interior, architectural, and product design. He is known for pioneering the " Modern Orientalism " design language. Wu Bin was honored with "Designer of the Year" award at the 24th Andrew Martin International Interior Design Awards, becoming the first designer from mainland China to receive this accolade.
Partners
M77 combines Eastern aesthetics and Western techniques to create customized solutions, including doors, paneling, storage systems, and home automation. The Genslyn sub-brand, managed by Wu Bin, interprets the new luxury living experience, offering a contemporary and refined aesthetic.
Moorgen is a technology group specializing in high-end home automation systems, developing smart solutions that integrate lighting, environmental control, security, and energy management into a single ecosystem.
UMGG, as the world's leading provider of decorative stone system solutions, has four natural stone processing bases covering an area of approximately 930,000 m². It offers integrated services including material selection, design, processing, installation, and after-sales service.
Yardcom is an outdoor lifestyle brand where technological innovation meets design sensibility. Through continuous innovation in sustainable, weather-resistant materials, Yardcom has become a trusted partner for architects and designers in high-profile outdoor projects worldwide.
Wu Bin with Ao Ting
NEW YORK (AP) — A surge for Intel following a blowout profit report is leading technology stocks higher Friday, while oil prices keep swinging in the wait for what’s next with the Iran war.
The S&P 500 added 0.5% and rose above its all-time high set on Wednesday, even though the majority of stocks within the index fell. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 197 points, or 0.4%, as of 11:15 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.1% higher.
Intel led the way and is potentially heading for its best day since 1987. It jumped 23.9% after reporting much stronger results for the first three months of the year than analysts expected. CEO Lip-Bu Tan said the next wave of artificial-intelligence technology is increasing the need for Intel’s chips and products, and the company’s forecast for profit in the spring topped analysts’ estimates.
Such strong profit reports have helped Wall Street rally to records, and the S&P 500 has leaped more than 12% in a little under a month. Hopes have also built in financial markets that the United States and Iran can find a way to avoid a worst-case scenario for the global economy because of their war.
A ceasefire is tenuously in place between the two, but tensions between them are still keeping oil tankers from passing through the Strait of Hormuz to deliver crude from the Persian Gulf to customers worldwide.
Oil prices climbed this week on worries about the strait, but a potentially encouraging signal came Friday after Iran’s top diplomat said he was heading to Pakistan. That's where officials have been trying to get the United States and Iran to convene for a second round of ceasefire negotiations.
The price for a barrel of Brent crude to be delivered in June yo-yoed between roughly $103 and $107 in the morning and most recently was up 0.6% at $105.71. The price for a barrel of Brent oil delivered in July, which is where more of the trading is happening in the market, added 0.2% to $99.59.
On Wall Street, Procter & Gamble rose 3.9% after reporting stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. CEO Shailesh Jejurikar said it saw broad-based growth across regions and products, which include Bounty paper towels and Tide detergent.
That helped offset a drop of 23.7% for Charter Communications, whose profit for the latest quarter came in weaker than analysts expected. It lost 120,000 internet customers during the three months, more than some analysts expected.
Hartford Insurance Group fell 1.6% after reporting profit growth for the latest quarter that fell short of analysts’ expectations.
In the bond market, Treasury yields eased after a report said sentiment among U.S. consumers remains sour. A survey by the University of Michigan found weaker sentiment in April across political party, income, age, and education, though it improved a bit after the ceasefire in the war with Iran was announced earlier in the month.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury dipped to 4.31% from 4.34% late Thursday.
Investors are also betting again on the possibility that the Federal Reserve could resume its cuts to interest rates later this year. The path appeared to clear Friday for President Donald Trump's nominee to chair the Fed, Kevin Warsh, after the U.S. Justice Department ended its probe into the Fed's current chair, Jerome Powell.
Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, has said he would oppose Warsh until the investigation was resolved, effectively blocking his confirmation. Warsh is the choice of Trump, who has been arguing loudly for lower interest rates.
In stock markets abroad, indexes were mixed across Europe and Asia. Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose 1%, and France’s CAC 40 fell 0.7% for two of the world’s bigger moves.
AP Business Writers Chan Ho-him and Matt Ott contributed to this report.
Options trader Matthew Hefter, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, April 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Specialist John Parisi works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Currency traders watch monitors near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), top center, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won, top center left, at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Currency traders work near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), right, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
A board above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange displays the closing number for the Dow Jones industrial average, Thursday, April 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
A person stands in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A currency trader watches monitors near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), top center, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won, top center left, at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
