Salone del Mobile 2025

Salone del Mobile.Milano will be returning to Fiera Milano, Rho from 8 to 13 April 2025, reaffirming its status as the world’s premier platform for furniture, design and interiors. With over 2,000 exhibitors from 37 countries, the 63rd edition promises to be a transformative moment for the industry, shaping the future of design through sustainable innovation, industrial excellence and emotional intelligence. The 2025 edition will be a catalyst for change, drawing inspiration from visionaries such as Pierre-Yves Rochon, Paolo Sorrentino and Robert Wilson. The event will also debut the first-ever International Forum on Light, a five-day exploration of the evolving role of lighting design in contemporary spaces.

This year, Salone del Mobile.Milano will host more than 2,000 exhibitors, with 38% representing international brands, across 169,000 square metres of completely sold-out exhibition space. Following its remarkable success in 2023, Euroluce returns as the Biennial of Light, occupying more than 32,000 square metres with more than 300 lighting brands from 25 countries. At the heart of the event is SaloneSatellite, where 700 emerging designers under 35, as well as 20 international design schools, will showcase the next generation of creativity under the theme of ‘New Craftsmanship: A New World’. The aim of the programme is to activate a bridge between heritage and the future, starting from the idea that craftsmanship can generate new interactions with contemporary design in the name of sustainability and the value of local cultural identities. New to this edition of SaloneSatellite is ‘A Luxury Way’ (Pavilions 13-15), an exhibition celebrating Italy’s ability to craft timeless, high-end design pieces. 

The 2025 edition will also feature an exciting cultural programme, anchored by three site-specific installations that blend architecture, art and film, including: Pierre-Yves Rochon’s ‘Villa Héritage’ (Pavilions 13-15) – a conceptual interior project that reinterprets classical design through a modern lens; Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘La Dolce Attesa’ (Pavilions 22-24) – an evocative filmic experience that plays with the theme of anticipation in design; and Robert Wilson’s ‘Mother’ (Museo Pietà Rondanini – Castello Sforzesco) – a striking artistic dialogue between Wilson’s contemporary vision and Michelangelo’s unfinished masterpiece. With Euroluce taking centre stage, the Euroluce International Lighting Forum, which runs from 10 to 11 April in Pavilion 2, will explore the future of lighting through masterclasses and roundtables featuring architects, lighting designers, biologists, anthropologists and scientists. Titled ‘Light for Life. Light for Spaces’, the forum will be hosted in the immersive ‘Forest of Space Arena’ designed by renowned Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto.

A special place where design meets innovation, heritage meets future, and creativity meets commerce, Salone 2025 is poised to redefine the global design landscape once again.

Photography by Saverio Lombardi Valluri