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Pleasure Garden unfolds as a journey through four forms of pleasure: awakening, reflection, fragrance, and ascent.

 

Each installation carries its own emotional state, while remaining part of a shared language. Banaca becomes the skin of the garden. Light takes on organic form. Baby’s breath settles across the space like a quiet atmosphere.

 

This is not a garden of objects, but of sensation.

Guests are invited not only to observe, but to participate. To reveal something, to leave a trace, to move through the work.

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At the threshold, a Nebula Grande chandelier in deep ultramarine appears suspended like a nocturnal bloom, somewhere between flower and constellation.

 

It draws the eye inward, setting the tone for a space shaped by light, material, and quiet transformation.

Fabric moves outward from the window in soft, fluid gestures, spilling into the entrance as if the garden itself were expanding beyond its limits. A Laminaria form anchors the composition, grounding it while remaining otherworldly.

 

Together, these elements mark the passage into Pleasure Garden.

A shift from the outside into something more immersive, more sensory, more suspended.

 

At its core, Pleasure Garden is also a meeting point of Filipino craftsmanship across disciplines.

Santa Ana Gin brings a distinctly Filipino expression to the global stage, drawing from native botanicals and a deep-rooted culture of craft, refinement, and detail. Its presence within Milan Design Week reflects a broader shift, where Filipino creativity is no longer peripheral, but central to contemporary design and cultural conversation.

 

In dialogue with Mirei Monticelli’s work, the project moves between material and liquid, structure and atmosphere. Both practices share a sensitivity to process, texture, and transformation.

This is not about representation as a statement.

 

It is about presence, and the quiet confidence of craft.

 

First Bloom

Pleasure of Awakening

Pomelo Mimosa

A moment of opening.

Soft, anticipatory, just beginning.

 

Garden of Glances

Pleasure of Being Seen

Pomelo Spritz

Reflection as experience.

To look, and to be looked at.

 

Spring Breeze

Pleasure of What Passes Through

Florale G&T

Fragrance, air, and fleeting presence.

Something felt, then gone.

 

The Ascent

Pleasure of Rising Toward Delight

Florale 75

Elevation, celebration, release.

A moment lifted above the everyday.

 

Throughout the space, small sculptural candleholders introduce a more intimate layer of light.

Made from a composite of cement, abaca fibers, and sand, they carry a tactile balance between raw mineral texture and soft natural material. Their tones are inspired by a pomelo sunrise, warm, diffused, and quietly luminous.

 

Placed across the bar, they create points of glow that shift the atmosphere at a smaller scale.

Less about spectacle, more about proximity.

 

They extend the language of the garden into something closer, more grounded, more personal.

 

Pleasure Garden MDW2026

Mirei Monticelli × Santa Ana Gin