Next Stop, Milan

It's a networking opportunity to die for. Or, in the case of NC State graduate student Michael Rall, to design for. It's the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, also known as Milan Design Week, and it's the most important international design event of the year. The 24-year-old Rall, who's never been off the East Coast, is packing his bags for an all-expenses-paid trip to the design fair April 22-27 courtesy of LG Surfaces.

"I can't wait," he says. "It's going to be great."

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