Salone del Mobile 2025 – Milan: Highlights and the Future of Design
April 2025 | Milan, Italy
SaloneSatellite 2025. Pad. 5-7, Fiera Milano, Rho, Salone del Mobile.Milano ©Ludovica Mangini.
From April 8–13, 2025, Salone del Mobile.Milano celebrated its 63rd edition, solidifying its position as the world’s leading design event. With more than 2,000 exhibitors from 37 countries and more than 300,000 attendees, it was a thriving center of sustainability, innovation, and a new understanding of the relationship between design and people. The event promoted critical conversations about the future of living spaces while showcasing innovative trends.
Salone del Mobile 2025 provided an unmatched chance to see the newest developments in furniture, lighting, and interior design, from the busy Rho Fiera pavilions to the mesmerizing displays throughout the city during Fuorisalone. It was a thorough examination of how design is changing to satisfy modern demands, with a focus on environmental responsibility, emotional resonance, and adaptability.
Featured Exhibitions & Installations
Exhibitions and installations addressed major concepts around the fairgrounds. Designers and brands explored experimental materials, sustainability, and the transient nature of design. Sensual experience and the dynamic interactions of environments with people passing through them were clearly highlighted.
Euroluce:
The Biennial of Lighting
The eagerly anticipated return of Euroluce brought attention to how lighting is evolving in design. It concentrated on the ways that light influences architecture and improves wellbeing by using workable and ecological solutions.
The Euroluce International Lighting Forum: A significant debut featuring discussions with leading lighting designers, architects, and scientists.
Euroluce at Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025. | Images courtesy of Salone del Mobile.Milano
S. Project:
Immersion Settings
S. Project emphasized the transition from creating independent items to creating immersive experiences, emphasizing the emotional appeal of well-designed locations and hybridized situations.
S.Project at Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025. | Images courtesy of Salone del Mobile.Milano
Workplace 3.0:
Reimagining Work Environments
More than 120 businesses came together for this exhibition to reimagine modern workplaces, focusing on adaptability and flexibility in response to changing cultural norms and hybrid work arrangements.
Workplace 3.0 at Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025. | Images courtesy of Salone del Mobile.Milano
SaloneSatellite:
A New Artistic
Approach In honour of its 25th anniversary, SaloneSatellite, which features 700 designers and 20 international design schools investigating "New Craftsmanship: A New World," remained an essential platform for developing creative potential of designers under 35.
SaloneSatellite at Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025. | Images courtesy of Salone del Mobile.Milano
Cultural Program Highlights
The experience was further enhanced by Salone del Mobile's cultural program, which provided a venue where design went beyond business to include contemplation. In order to promote a more thorough examination of the role that design plays in society, culture, and daily life, the program included discussions, immersive installations, and cross-disciplinary initiatives.
Artistic Installations
Library of Light at Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025. | Images courtesy of Salone del Mobile.Milano
Library of Light by Es Devlin
Es Devlin, an artist and stage designer, created one of the event's highlight pieces. Her installation Library of Light converted the Pinacoteca di Brera's Cortile d'Onore into a beautiful, luminous monument to the relationship between light and knowledge. The piece, created in response to Euroluce's theme this year, asked visitors to consider how light not only illuminates but also inspires, informs, and even alters our understanding of the world.
Mother by Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson's "Mother," showcased at Euroluce 2025, reimagined Michelangelo's incomplete Pietà Rondanini as a moving, immersive experience. With his trademark expertise in using light, Wilson placed this installation in the "Spanish Hospital" at Castello Sforzesco, proving his conviction that "Without light there is no space."
Robert Wilson. Mother - Museo della Pietà Rondanini Castello Sforzesco - Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025 - Ph. Lucie Jansch
The 30-minute ride envelops visitors in light, darkness, and the evocative music of Arvo Pärt's "Stabat Mater." Wilson's lighting defines the space, accentuating the Pietà's raw beauty and unfinished state. This staged combination of light and dark braids a tale of pain and contemplation, more than mere observation in a deeper, muddled, and in the process spiritual connection with the work. "Mother" is not merely looking at the sculpture; it's also seeing it, recast in Wilson's unique vision of light as a force that is active and expressive.
"La dolce attesa" by Paolo Sorrentino
The Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino's "La dolce attesa" is a moving installation that explores the idea of waiting.
La dolce attesa, Paolo Sorrentino - Ph. Saverio Lombardi Vallauri
"Villa Héritage" by Pierre-Yves Rochon
Pays homage to the hotel industry while showcasing understated elegance.
Pierre-Yves Rochon. Villa Heritage. Bedroom Salone del Mobile.Milano ©PYR
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