Sunday May 26 the bastard store is in the Open House Milano IV Edizione program, closing the Milano Arch Week. Open House Milano is a whole weekend dedicated to public and private buildings with a relevant footprint in architecture, supported by dedicated and volunteer guides.

Come to discover by yourself how we put a bowl for skateboarding upthere in the ex Cinema Istria now bastard store.

Access is for Sunday only, no booking required and with the following schedule: 10am to 6pm.

Visits’ duration will be 45′ in groups of maximum 20 people and with the following starting each hour: 10am / 11am / 12am / 1pm / 2pm / 3pm / 4pm / 5pm / 6pm.

The bastard store is in via Scipio Slataper 19, Milano and reachable with the subway M5 (Istria stop), bus number 42 and trams number 5,7 e 31. Here the map on Google.

Recently we re-converted the bastard store’s foyer into a legit ‘skateshop’. A skatewall consisting of larch wooden racks showcases 140 decks on sale.

These racks have been designed by our friends from the milanese architecture studio binocle and are made out of upcycled wood from our previous flooring, the racks are self-illuminating and can be dismantled and folded on the occasion, restoring the original entrances of the old cinema’s gallery.

Seems like it’s true that a good project never ends as the development is continuous.

p.s we are working on adding all the skate stuff to our online store, currently only a small part is visible online, come visit us in via Slataper 19 in Milano for the full set.

Congratulations to our favourite architecture studio, Binocle, that was recently published (again) by ArchDaily.
The subject of the review is the transformed reuse project for offices in Via Zumbini, Milan.

For further information and more pictures pay a visit to ArchDaily.

On Wednesday January 11^th we had a big party in our headquarters to present the new bastard,  Electric,  Jart,  DVS, Lakai,  Matix and Makia Fall Winter 2012-13 collections and a brand new DealerZine, that represents a big step forward compared to the previous ones! During the party we also inaugurated the new binocle working space… unfortunately we couldn’t document the opening due to a generalized state of dumbness, partially related to an overall abuse of a freaking awesome unfiltered wine ;)

Kudos to Davide / MatteoV / Giuliano for the amazing new catalog, to Sonia & co. for the event organization, to MatteoM / Lukas Goller  for the new products and the high quality collabos they managed despite tight schedules and reorganized resources, to Bruno for the excellent music and to Nuccia / Anna / Max / Muriel for everything else.

Friend and architect Lorenzo Bini has a new firm called binocle and we’re looking forward to collaborate on a few very interesting projects…

The firm binocle is launching today an open contest for illustrating the mega chalk board that will camp in his latest project: Spazio 33, wine-bar cafeteria located inside a beautiful park in Oleggio (NO). If you are a writer, illustrator, cartoonist or you simply think you could do a good job send your illustrations as the project seriously deserves it!

P.S. Do they really want to create an innovative skateable path inside the park too?