The most famous colour experiment of the century — now you can walk on it

Josef Albers spent decades painting the same nested squares to prove one thing: colour behaves — it shifts with light, neighbours and rhythm. The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, steward of his legacy and of Anni Albers — the weaver who in 1949 became the first textile artist with a solo show at the MoMA — has now turned that experiment into ceramics: Homage to the Square by Mutina, glazed stoneware in seven shades with just a dot and a dash, glazes layered like the paintings, unveiled at Milan Design Week 2026.

Through La Mercanti, the century's colour lesson becomes a floor — for offices that prefer their art underfoot and in daily use.