Four special projects for the cultural program of the 63rd edition, including the installation of the Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino .
From today until 13 April, the 63rd Salone del Mobile 2025 will take place at Fiera Milano Rho.
There are four Special Projects of the 2025 Cultural Program: two in the city, two in the Salone Pavilions. The first, inaugurated to the public on Sunday 6 April, in an ideal bridge with Art Week, is the installation Robert Wilson. Mother , at the Museo della Pietà Rondanini Castello Sforzesco, a total work dedicated to Michelangelo’s masterpiece, recognized, together with Leonardo’s Last Supper, as the most iconic work of art in Milan.
The latest announced is Library of Light by the British artist Es Devlin , a powerful performative experience set up in the Courtyard of Honor of the Pinacoteca di Brera: a “beacon of knowledge”, with over 2,000 volumes selected and donated by Feltrinelli to celebrate the value of knowledge.
Two installations at the fair, where in Halls 22-24, the visionary gaze of the Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino , supported by the set designer Margherita Palli and the sound fabric of Max Casacci , will pay a tribute to a universal feeling: waiting , the most sincere moment of life, marked by the beating of a mysterious heart.
While it is to Pierre-Yves Rochon , the absolute protagonist of the most exclusive international hotel industry, that Salone wanted to entrust the task of giving shape to an interior idea, which reinterprets luxury in its timeless dimension: Villa Héritage (Pav. 13-15), a tribute to the Venice of Luchino Visconti , to the notes of Gustav Mahler , to the talent of designing rooms that become worlds where heritage is not a constraint but an act of freedom.
2025 is also the year of Euroluce which, with 306 exhibitors , among the best brands in the sector, will return an international focus on the evolution of light in indoor and outdoor domestic spaces, as well as in the urban landscape.
Great anticipation for the first edition of The Euroluce International Lighting Forum , a multi-voice discussion on the major themes of light design: two intense days of masterclasses, round tables and workshops with 20 speakers from all over the world , from solar designer Marjan van Aubel to Stefano Mancuso , plant neurologist, to the great British anthropologist Tim Ingold .
After celebrating its first 25 years in 2024, SaloneSatellite returns with 700 designers from 36 countries and 20 international design schools and universities . Theme of the new edition: NEW CRAFTSMANSHIP: A NEW WORLD // NEW CRAFTSMANSHIP: A NEW WORLD , an invitation to re-imagine the universe of the handmade. A reflection that feeds not only the imagination of talents under 35 but contributes to re-discussing the design perimeters of the entire design industry which at SaloneSatellite has intercepted, over the years, both an inexhaustibleand nursery of young talents and new stimuli to explore and better understand the urgencies and challenges of the new generations of designers.
Salone del Mobile 2025: the four annual events
Four annual events take place at Fiera Milano, Rho: Salone Internazionale del Mobile , International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition , Workplace3.0 and S.Project .
The visiting experience becomes increasingly integrated and transversal, embracing an idea of design that becomes a continuously evolving system, in which furnishings, accessories, fabrics and living solutions intertwine to respond to the new needs of contract , home office and hospitality .
In this edition, a sophisticated vision of living emerges, where comfort blends with personal expression. The shapes soften, evoking nature and the organic, while fine materials such as leather, carved wood, decorated glass and tailored fabrics tell stories of quality and research. Modularity is the protagonist: each element is designed to adapt to the spaces and desires of those who live in the environment, offering infinite compositional possibilities. The integrated lighting, customizable finishes and functional details enhance the idea of ??an intelligent and never conventional design. The result is an aesthetic that balances visual lightness, technological innovation and emotional warmth, transforming the space into an intimate and dynamic story.
Villa Héritage by Pierre-Yves Rochon
In pavilions 13-15, tracing further new visions will be Villa Héritage , an interior project designed by Pierre-Yves Rochon, a French architect who is one of the most exclusive addresses in international hospitality, not least the Waldorf Astoria in New York. An installation that integrates, around a winter garden inspired by ancient Italian greenhouses, works of art, Flemish tapestries, unique or serial pieces (40 exhibiting brands involved) in homage to the ability to create timeless objects of the sector’s manufacturing, to which Salone 2025 has given a name: A Luxury Way , a path that introduces a rereading of the contemporary classic.
The sweet wait by Paolo Sorrentino
At the entrance to Pavilions 22-24, visitors will be welcomed by a project with a strong emotional impact: La Dolce Expectation , a site-specific installation designed by Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino in collaboration with the set designer Margherita Palli on a sound carpet by Max Casacci .
Drafting Futures. Conversations about Next Perspectives
For the third consecutive year, the Formafantasma Arena will host Drafting Futures. Conversations about Next Perspectives (pavilion 14) edited by Annalisa Rosso , Editorial Director & Cultural Events Advisor: 5 days of conversations which will see the participation of thinkers and designers such as the British artist Es Devlin (8 April), Valeria Segovia (9 April), director and design ofrector of Gensler in London, Bjarke Ingels (10 April), Lesley Lokko (11 April) and Paolo Sorrentino (12 April).
The protagonists of the afternoon Round Tables will be international panels of sector experts, invited to share authoritative points of view on challenges and opportunities regarding Business of Design and Business of Hospitality .
Euroluce
The Biennale Euroluce , once again, will be the international reference platform for lighting design, thanks to quality exhibition content, capable of sharing a clear vision of the progress of the sector, driven by technology , sustainability and innovation , intelligent systems, AI integration, biophilic design and greater user control.
Backstage Euroluce, Salone del Mobile Milan_©Monica Spezia
The shapes become sculptural, evocative and often inspired by nature. Light becomes material to be modeled: soft, directional, modulable. Modularity is a key theme, with modular or transformable light bodies.
Ample space is dedicated to the use of noble and recycled materials , in a union between craftsmanship and innovation . Portability, thanks to rechargeable batteries, makes lighting freer and more versatile, suitable for both internal and external spaces. The result is a poetic, sensorial and functional light.
The Euroluce International Lighting Forum
Another novelty in 2025 is the first edition of The Euroluce International Lighting Forum (10-11 April, hall 2): two days of masterclasses, round tables and workshops curated by Annalisa Rosso , in collaboration with APIL . Theme: Light for Life. Light for Spaces , with over 20 speakers including lighting designers, architects, artists, scientists, biologists, anthropologists and psychologists.
The forum will be hosted by the Arena The Forest of Space , designed by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto , creator of the Grand Ring of Expo 2025 Osaka.
Show in the city
From Fiera Milano Rho, Salone embraces the city with a cultural program of international scope.
As well as Robert Wilson. Mother (Museo della Pietà Rondanini, 6 April18 May) and Es Devlin. Library of Light (Pinacoteca di Brera, 721 April), the Salon renews its collaboration with Fondazione Teatro alla Scala . The inauguration at the Theater will be curated by Robert Wilson with the show The Night Before: Chairs, Objects, Opera .
Design Kiosk also returns (113 April, Piazza della Scala), curated by Corraini Edizioni and DWA-Design Studio , with conversations between designers such as Piero Lissoni , Federica Biasi , Aldo Cibic , Olimpia Zagnoli .
Finally, in via Dante , the photographic exhibition Vernissage (until 15 April) by photographer Bill Durgin explores the theme of the 2025 campaign: Thought for Humans.
Eight graphic interventions in the city celebrate design accessible to all, close to design icons such as the subway handrail by Albini and Helg , the shelters by Norman Foster , and the concrete panettone by Enzo Mari .
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