Our Trend Editors 4 Must-See Exhibits at Milan Design Week 2025

Planning to attend Milan Design Week 2025 and eager to make the most of your time at the show?

In the run-up to Milan Design Week 2025 our trend editors, Eve Gardiner-Black and Danika Morris have spotlighted the most innovative and exciting brands and designers exhibiting this year.

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Salone del Mobile 

The 63rd edition of Salone del Mobile, held in the Fiera Milano district in Rho from 16th – 21st will feature the latest novelties, creative visions and innovations from leading companies in the design industry. This year, projects respond to the challenges of sustainability and numerous cultural events.

Fuorisalone 

For Fuorisalone 2025 the theme”Mondi Connessi” (Connected Worlds) is a vision that promotes participatory and generative design. Exhibitors celebrate the art of engagement through design and forms of artificial intelligence.

Cabana – ‘Speak, Memory’

Part of Cabana’s ‘Atlas of Craftsmanship’, ‘Speak, Memory’ showcases the work of seven master artisans, including Emily Bode, Dahyeon Yue and Green River Project. Co-curated by Deborah Needleman and Martina Mondadori, the exhibition features works made with LVMH Métiers d’Art materials. Set in Mondadori’s family home, the exhibition pays tribute to those who preserve the world’s rarest traditions.

Romantic Brutalism: A Journey into Polish Craft and Design

To mark 100 years since Poland’s participation in the 1925 Paris Exposition, the Visteria Foundation presents an exhibition celebrating the nation’s creativity and craftsmanship. Featuring 23 designers, it explores how themes of brutalism, romanticism, decadence, folk art, and art deco are being reinterpreted and reimagined today.

Dezeen x ASUS – ‘Design You Can Feel’

Following on from the success of ‘Design You Can Feel’ exhibition at last year’s London Design Festival, Dezeen has once again partnered with ASUS for their ‘Design You Can Feel’ exhibition, featuring an interactive installation by Studio INI. Exploring themes of materiality, craftsmanship and artificial intelligence (AI), this kinetic and biometric public sculpture reacts to visitors presence.

Faye Toogood x Tacchini – Bread & Butter

Furniture designer and MDW Designer of the Year 2024 Faye Toogood will unveil her latest collaboration with Tacchini at Salon del Mobile. Using bread and butter as a source for inspiration, citing them as ’the building blocks of domestic happiness and health’, this furniture collection explores the new perspectives found in routine and everyday life.

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