Often dismissed as dated or utilitarian, laminates don’t always get the love they deserve. But at Milan Design Week 2025, Formica Group gave them a well-deserved spotlight. The brand staged a compelling case for laminate’s place in design history with Formica (r)Evolution. Housed at FENIX Scenario, the exhibition took visitors on a layered journey – […]
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Dutch studio DRIFT has long captivated audiences with its kinetic installations, capturing fleeting moments from nature and translating them into immersive, sensory experiences within built environments. At Milan Design Week 2025, artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta did it once again with Drift Us, a robotic installation created in collaboration with Audi that evokes the […]
To create or to make is to forge progress – to reject that is just poor taste. And in spite of market turbulence caused by global uncertainty, Milan Design Week 2025 continuously proves that good design thrives in spaces of inclusion. This year’s Salone Del Mobile boasted 302,548 international attendees who came to witness showcases […]
While rugs have their place, typically underfoot, who’s to say they can’t rise up to meet us in entirely new ways? That’s the thinking behind DUNE, a sculptural collaboration between German design studio BUDDE and Cologne-based Nando Studio. Debuting at Milan Design Week at Galleria Rossana Orlandi, DUNE reimagines the traditional rug as a fully […]
Once a maker of leather-covered pipes, now a coveted global fashion house, Longchamp has never once lost its mastery of craft. In its latest chapter, the French brand has teamed up with celebrated designer Pierre Renart to make its first foray into furniture, where supple leather and sculpted wood come together as one. The collection […]
Milan Design Week is upon us. Among a seemingly endless list of new and re-editioned products launching during the massive, city-wide event – the largest of its kind by far – is a slew of fresh concepts borne out of seemingly unexpected partnerships. Prestigious fashion houses cross-pollinate with edgy outdoor furniture brands and multivalent artists […]
Every so often, a designer emerges whose work feels destined for the history books. In 2025, that name is Tim Vranken. The Belgian furniture designer has spent years perfecting his craft, creating pieces that balance raw materiality with sculptural elegance. His recent solo exhibition, Moving Fragments, at Objects With Narratives serves as a culmination of […]
If it’s summer where you are and you need some icy relief, discover the Zen collection by Draga & Aurel, a multidisciplinary studio founded by Draga Obradovic and Aurel K. Basedow. When we last caught up with the designers, they had just launched the Flare series, which brought the concept of light refractions into furniture. […]
Leave it to Studiopepe to turn something as ubiquitous and commonplace as silos containers into a source of inspiration for a collection that is so elegant, you’re surprised to learn of its origins. Unveiled earlier this year at Milan Design Week, the Silos Collection is a collaboration between Studiopepe, a Milan-based multidisciplinary agency founded by […]
HABITUS is an experimental project by Foscarini created with artist and designer Andrea Anastasio, along with Arun Jothi and Natalie Frost of Amal, who specialize in embroidery made by hand for the world of haute couture. The trio played with absolute creative freedom through the lens of art and design, allowing the world of lighting […]
Founded by Jisu Yun and Richard Bone, Paris-based Studio Booboon, launched their inaugural exhibition at this year’s Milan Design Week. Playful Reappropriation, a self-curated exhibition located in an art space and former printing factory called Gallery Assab One, explores the concept of reappropriation. The show included furniture and lighting, both produced and manufactured in their […]
Launched as part of the exciting “Ukraine Design Brands” joint exhibition that took place during Milan Design Week 2024, NOOM’s HELLO collection is playful furniture that remains sophisticated. Located in the exhibition that was supported by the Embassy of Ukraine in Italy, the latest seating collection, designed by Denys Sokolov, features a chair, a low […]
Equal parts surface decoration and protective skin, the art of tile-making dates back as far as civilization itself, distilled through nearly every culture since man’s early twilight with many nations lavished upon its development. Fornace Brioni adds to the annals of earthenware with Grounded, an exhibition showcasing their new wall and floor coverings, designed by […]
The Me and You lighting collection is an extraordinary tale of creation from calamity. The story begins in Melbourne, Australia, where, during an installation, Flack Studio was faced with an irreparably broken vintage wall sconce. They quickly called on their neighbor, Volker Haug, to design a fitting for the back plate that was already in […]
Antechamber, foyer, or vestibule – semantics aside, architecture’s iconic liminal space is experiencing a bit of a renaissance as evidenced by the plethora of fresh objects debuting with every passing fair. Makers like Kiki Goti, whose showcase Selene debuted to great acclaim at Alcova for Milan Design Week 2024, demonstrate design’s potential to shift perceptions of […]
Forty-three years after La Grande Muraglia, a collaborative furniture collection from architect and designer Mario Bellini and B&B Italia founder Piero Ambrogio Busnelli was realized by marble and stone specialists, NEUTRA, it’s been reimagined. La Grande Muraglia Outdoor, making an appearance during Milan Design Week 2024, is NEUTRA’s first foray into outdoor furniture. This collection of majestic […]
Sparking Change is a unique, educational installation presented by Roca and designed by Mario Cucinella Architects that was put on display at Fuorisalone during Milan Design Week 2024. Bringing the physical and digital worlds together at the Università degli Studi are 1,200 colorful, 3D-printed modular ceramic blocks stacked into a semi-circular backdrop measuring 4.5 meters […]
After resting a bit from our whirlwind visit to Milan Design Week 2024, we’ve picked 11 of our favorite designers to watch, installations that made us think, and pieces we’d love to own from the hundreds of exhibitions, installations, pop-ups, and galleries spread across the city. These are some of the week’s most standout sources […]
Debuted at Milan Design Week 2024, the Designated Side Table collection designed by Milan-based, Taiwanese designer YuoNing Chien, of 808: Studio, has a conspicuous feature that is clever and playful, like an inside joke that you’ve just been clued into. The series is formed entirely of geometric shapes, with cut-outs in the tabletop that are […]
It may come as a surprise, but the human experiences of taste, hearing, smell, touch, and sight, share the computing capacity of technologies like the pocket calculator, hard disk, USB Key, and computer network, respectively. Google Hardware Design Studio, in collaboration with arts and research lab Chromasonic, explores the bandwidth of those sensory perceptions with […]
Milan Design Week 2024 visitors who stopped by the 100R exhibition had the chance to see how aluminum scrap can be turned into coveted design objects that are ready for mass production. Norwegian aluminum and renewable energy company Hydro is changing the game when it comes to the endlessly recyclable material with Hydro CIRCAL 100R, […]
The Japanese concept of ‘nagori,’ defined as the essence of fleeting moments, is at the core of the NAGORI collection first introduced at Milan Design Week 2024. An embrace of this concept drives Studio KO, who designed the series of planters for pottery manufacturer Domani, with a curiosity for how time is perceived – linear […]
