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Milano Design Week – Fuorisalone 2026

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8 juin , 2026

photos Piero Biasion — Photos Piero Biasion

If the Salone del Mobile is something monstrously gigantic where the big furniture companies propose their new products, what can be said about the Fuorisalone, which has grown to include over 1,300 events/exhibitions in the city? A phenomenon that other metropolises are trying to copy and here in Milan the Design Week fever takes hold of the city to the point that the Municipal Police has to close entire neighborhoods to car traffic and it is for this success that Marketing wanted to sneak in, and so we find everything and more from fashion to cars to schools to champagne…. fortunately, the initial spirit has been maintained even with groups exhibiting, albeit in precarious settings, but with truly interesting and innovative proposals and projects.

I would start with the exhibition at the Cà Granda (an ancient Renaissance hospital from the 15th century designed by Filarete and now home to the State University) which traditionally marks the beginning of the Fuorisalone and at the same time also of the Design Week,highlighting the Mater installation in the central courtyard, conceived and designed by Alessandro Scandurra, with the “staging” of the rubble of the Ukrainian schools created thanks to Holcim Italia, which is responsible for their reconstruction.

UN_Material is the full-size representation (length 25.6 m, max. width 10 m, height 6 m) of the SHE yacht produced by the SanLorenzo shipyard, represented through vertical sections at uniform distances: it is a reflection on the immaterial dimension of Design, on the idea, on the imagination of the project, which here is transformed into a three-dimensional drawing in space, it is the representation of how memory and innovation can coexist. The raised platform symbolically suggests the waterline, the line that separates what emerges from what remains submerged,this installation suggests that its design can transcend matter and transform into perception, as reflected in the graphics of the panels and the Stuarts’ clothes.
In Goodbye Discomfort the AIRism textile fibre takes shape and brings us into contact with it in a space made to brush, touch, cross experience how this material is comfortable to wear, designed by Thirtyone Design + Management by Claudia Campone for Uniqlo. For Artemide Big-Bjarke Ingels Group they created a light in the form of a continuous line that develops into increasingly complex nodes, becoming the metaphor of the progression of the creative process, of the connections between matter and ideas with the result of having created abstract sculptures suspended between Renaissance arches.

De Ponte Studio Architects for Idealverde, under the title Innesti, have created an ephemeral architecture made from reused wooden strips that reflects the idea that nature is an evolving organism and communicates through its vibrant texture like a nest full of life. Infinity is the title of this space designed by Marco Nereo Rotelli with Riccardo Valentini for Veolia and Domyn, the installation is interactive and based on AI where art, science and poetry come together and interact thanks to sensors.

Otto Studio and Studio Azzurro for the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium have created a structure inspired by the iconic shape of the cheese, thus creating an architectural space accessible to the public inside which typical instruments of the cheese production process are activated, producing ever-changing sound iterations.
Texte et Photos by Piero Biasion

Milano Design Week - Fuorisalone 2026

A special address is the space where Rossana Orlandi brings together interesting design proposals, famous and not so famous designers create an interesting path that I will have you begin with one of his works from the past millennium made of intertwined-woven ties. Creativity and ecology are present in the exhibition area as in the seats by Andrea Zambelli who recovers damaged Thonet chairs and transforms them into multi-seat chairs.

Atelier l’inconnu does not stop at creating armchairs and sofas on an anthropomorphic basis but expands them to include other furnishing elements; the classic “Pied de poule” check does not cover the seats but becomes the structure and design in Bouley Gandhi’s seats. Other interpretations of this piece of furniture come from the joint work of Enrico Amedei and Laura Leraghi.

Materials such as marble and stone have new life and an unexpected lightness in the creations of Francesca Bufali for Bufalini Marmi;the biggest trend these days is for the boundaries between art, design, and craftsmanship to become transparent, as in Hana Hillerova’s glass works. The identification between the material of the object and its function are playfully overturned in the Clouds by IAMMI and the shape of the sweet is funnily used with a new identity in seats and lamps by Lee Jun Seo, always with his trembling sign Martin Baas continues to bring the objects that surround us back to life by making them vibrate: from doors to beds to mirrors etc.

MALO, a prestigious brand known for its production of high-end knitwear, with Act of Embrace designed by Antoine Peters creates an installation where the space of the embrace manifests itself as presence, gesture and material. With the theme and aesthetics of recycling, Paul Heijnen offers us his vision of the interior of the house as a set of sculptures: from lamps to chairs, armchairs, tables and vases and still on the theme of creative recycling, Piet Hein Eek & Tweek give new life to drawers by reinventing furniture and walls, the reinvention for Stefania Vasques starts from the raw material which in her case are the spicy essences with which she gives life to new furnishing elements in the Rezina series. Sebastian Renga makes sustainability the basis of his research and his products, of which he presents here a seat with clear, essential forms.

Texte et Photos by Piero Biasion