Crates of Select Aperitivo and champagne are currently being carted throughout Milan and stocked in showrooms. The carbonated calling card can only mean one thing: Milan Design Week is near. This year, design week coincides with the 63rd edition ofSalone del Mobile, the year of Euroluce, which will bring 2,100 exhibitors to the city. One week out from spritz season and the inbox and calendar are filling up with invites and appointments. Already a theme appears to be emerging: theater. Salones special guest this year is Robert Wilson, renowned American director, playwright, and artist who will be creating an installation titledRobert Wilson. Motherfor the fair. Elsewhere, Formafantasma will mount a theatrical performance,Staging Modernity, at Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber for Cassina. Some designers will even be sleeping in the showroom among their worksbut more on that later.Amid the flurry of upcoming activations,AN Interiorrounded up these enlightening and engaging events. In addition to the weeks staples like the fair and Alcova, these perhaps lesser-known destinations will provide not just the spectacle surrounding Salone, but also thought-provoking and moving ruminations on design.The Theater of Things features a bench by Laurids Galle, vases by Espace Aygo, and a carpet by Stefania Ruggiero (Piercarlo Quiecchia/DSL Studio)The Theater of ThingsDelvis (Un)LimitedVia Fatebenefratelli 9, 20121 MilanDesign is only as good as it is livable, and this new exhibition hosted atDelvis (Un)Limitedgallery puts this to the test. For the duration of design week, designers will be living at the galleryyes, eating, sleeping, and partying in the spaceall visible through the shop window. Each night, one of the seven designers, whose work will help shape the home/gallery, will spend the night, and each morning, a critic or journalist will wake them for coffee and engage in discussion about the experience. The participating designers include Objects of Common Interest, Linde Freya Tangelder, Espace Aygo, Rich Aybar, Laurids Galle, Stefania Ruggiero, and Niki Danai. The exhibition is curated by Valentina Ciuffi and Joseph Grima and designed by Space Caviar. A render showcases Rockwells installation and the lifelike tree it features (Courtesy Rockwell Group)Casa CorkVia Solferino 31, 20121 MilanIn partnership with nonprofit Cork Collective and cork producer Corticeira Amorim,Rockwell Grouphas designed an installation that showcases the prowess of cork, both from a sustainability standpoint and its interior applications. The material will be used to craft the interiors, furnishings, lighting, and a lifelike replica tree. Students from Parsons School of Design in New York and Politecnico di Milano will also be presenting cork prototypes at the atelier.Vocla is a new platform from Alcova (P. Sorgetti)VOCLAEx-Macello di Viale MoliseViale Molise 68, 20137 MilanAlcovamakes it return to the citybut only for night owls. VOCLA is a new platform for design by night. Catering to design experimentation as well as social gathering, VOCLA brings together a design exhibit and a bar and restaurant pop-up to create places of encounter. Henge designed the custom lounge bar with dining by Yapa. This program will be held in the exchange of the former slaughterhouse of Viale Molise, a listed Liberty building. Designers include Weronika Woliskas textile-inflatable collaboration, made by astronauts studios hydroforming research, and more. Get those Resys in now to dine within design.The exhibition features objects from prisons around the world (Piercarlo Quiecchia/DSL Studio)Prison Times Spatial Dynamics of Penal EnvironmentsVia Giovanni Battista Sammartini 60, 20125 MilanAcross five ofDropcitys tunnels, the exhibitionPrison Times Spatial Dynamics of Penal Environmentsdelves into the spatial and temporal realities of prison environments. Objects from prisons around the world will be displayed clinically and taxonomically to create a show that merges design, market data, and penal objects. The 14 pyramid and 141 piece by Bocci (Kate Williams)The Numbers Between The NumbersVia Giuseppe Rovani 20, 20123 MilanIn celebration ofBoccis 20th anniversary, this exhibition explores the work and process of its founderOmer Arbel. The artist and architect presents archival concepts, fragments of works, and completed pieces. The exhibitions creative direction is led by David Alhadeff, founder ofThe Future Perfect. The showcase will culminate in a reimagining of 14, Boccis first-ever piece, as well as show the recently debuted 141.Hydro will present R100 with post-consumer recycled aluminum (Courtesy Hydro)Capsule PlazaSpazio Maiocchi: Via Achille Maiocchi 7, 20129 MilanSatellite Venue 1: Via Achille Maiocchi 23, 20129 MilanSatellite Venue 2: Piazza Risorgimento 8, 20129 MilanThe third edition of Capsule Plaza features the theme Expanded Living, an exploration of the design of lifestyles and domesticity. Featured exhibitors include HEM, Stone Island, Harry Nuriev, Sabine Marcellis,Hydro, and many more. This year, the exhibition will include the activations Spazio Maiocchi, the same venue Capsule was held last year, as well as two satellite venues. The Marghe chair for Flou in 1993 (Courtesy Flou)More or less 60 chairs in 60 yearsFondazione studio museo Vico MagistrettiVia Vincenzo Bellini 1, 20122 MilanoIn 1980, architect and designer Vico Magistretti organized an exhibit titled,Twenty Years, Twenty Chairs. When he reached 21 chairs he staged another exhibit,Twenty One Years, Twenty One Chairs. Now,Fondazione studio museo Vico Magistretticontinues the traditionmore or less. The exhibition follows a timeline of original drawings and photographic reproductions of 66 chairs with a dozen or so available to the public to sit and lounge.Rooms Studio presents Re-Assembled Floor Lamp (Lile Revishvili)Sub-currents (At work)Studio Frey BarthVia Kramer 32, 20129 MilanTbilisi- and ParisbasedRooms Studiopresents an exhibition of new furniture, lighting, and ceramic works that reflect the shifting political and social landscape in Georgia. Hosted byStudio Frey Barth, this presentation is both poetic and quietly political as it captures the unique moment in Georgian history. Featured among the new work, Re-assembled Floor Lamps is a set of utilitarian lighting the aesthetic of captures urban protest sites.Bitossi Ceramichealso contributes vessels that bridge ancient tradition and contemporary design languages.