Milan Design Weeks
April 2025

Karimoku New Standard (KNS), a brand focused on the use of low-diameter Japanese hardwood trees, will present specially upholstered Castor Lobby Sofas at Capsule Plaza.

Spazio Maiocchi
via Achille Maiocchi 7
20129 Milan

Press Office: BIG-GAME
contact@big-game.ch

Deoron, the digital curation platform with over 100,000 followers on Instagram, debuts at Milan Design Week with Deoron Elevating Objects. This collective exhibition brings its aesthetic vision into the physical world. More than just a magazine, Deoron is also an online shop and directory for design and lifestyle objects. It offers a space where designers and brands can connect with design enthusiasts, allowing them to discover and purchase curated pieces with a refined and discerning selection process.

The Flat - Massimo Carasi
via Paolo Frisi 3
20129 Milan

More info:: www.deoron.com/

Also this year, Elle Decor Italia returns to the setting of Palazzo Bovara with a highly anticipated exhibition. Alchemica is the installation curated by Patricia Urquiola, ready to revolutionize the spaces of the neoclassical building by Carlo Felice Soave and to start a dialogue and a reflection on the future of living.

Palazzo Bovara
Corso Venezia 51
20121 Milan

More info:: live.hearst.it/hearst-global-design-2025-en/

The exhibition curated by Matteo Cibic explores the plant world through experimental languages, the result of research that redefines sculpture as a tool to enhance plants and arboreal details, often in a monumental way, tracing the evolution of Cibic's poetics from 2017 to today.

Fondazione Luigi Rovati
Corso Venezia 52
20122 Milan

More info:: www.fondazioneluigirovati.org/it/museo/appuntamenti-e-mostre/mostre/lakapoliesis

From the first trunks that revolutionized the art of travel, Louis Vuitton has always fostered a deep connection with the world of design. For Design Week, the Maison will present its Home Collections on an entire floor of its new boutique at Via Montenapoleone 2 – designed by Peter Marino Architect – which will also house Louis Vuitton’s first restaurant in Italy (DAV by DaVittorio Louis Vuitton, run by the Cerea family) and its second café, after the one in Taormina. The five pillars of the Home Collections are: Objets Nomades, Signature, Games, Decoration, and Art de la Table. The new Home Collections will also be featured in the Objets Nomades exhibition at Palazzo Serbelloni, blending heritage, excellence, and high craftsmanship.

> Via Montenapoleone 2
> Palazzo Serbelloni, Corso Venezia 16

Palazzo Serbelloni
Corso Venezia 16
20121 Milan

Pet Therapy is a new design brand by Atelier Biagetti, home to giant, docile, lunar cats that become sculptural lamps and seats shaded by soft palm trees with crazy coconuts that double as lights. Each object is a functional sculpture conceived to activate the idea of a home without boundaries, where interior blurs into exterior and playfulness is a serious business that we just can’t do without.

Giardino delle Arti
via Palestro 8
20121 Milan

Park Associati presents Paff Paff - Liminal Spaces for Sensorial Rituals, an installation that explores wool as a symbolic element to create a primordial space. Through the senses, this environment invites visitors to rediscover an intimate and welcoming dimension, offering a moment of rest amidst the daily hustle and bustle. The installation was designed and developed by the design studio Finemateria at the invitation of Park Associati, in collaboration with cc-tapis and QuadroDesign. The initiative is part of the cultural programming of Park Hub, curated by Costanza Nizzi.

The title Paff Paff refers to the onomatopoeic sound of soft footsteps in slippers, a delicate and airy noise evoking the sensation of a body resting on a soft surface. The ritual of putting them on marks the transition from the external environment to an intimate space dedicated to personal care.

Park Associati
via Garofalo 31
20131 Milan

More info:: costanzanizzi@parkassociati.com
parkassociati.com/paff-paff-milano-design-week-2025

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WonderGlass returns to Istituto dei Ciechi with Poetica, an installation featuring new works by Vincent Van Duysen and Ronan Bouroullec, complemented by exquisite wallpaper designs from Calico Wallpaper, and a special contribution by Officine Saffi Lab. This evocative project reimagines glass and paper as vessels for memory and imagination, offering a poetic exploration of materiality and craft.

Poetica explores the delicate balance between the ordinary and the abstract, where objects reveal hidden dimensions through their interaction with their surroundings. Each piece unfolds new layers of meaning, in a storytelling that begins in the mind of the designer, evolves through the hands of the craftsman, and finds its full expression in the eyes of the viewer. A poetic cycle is thus co-created, design, craftmanship and perception, resulting in an ever-evolving narrative that extends beyond the object itself.


Poetica culminates in a celebration of collaboration, not just between materials but between visionaries and makers. WonderGlass, with the collaboration of Calico Wallpaper and Officine Saffi Lab, brings together an installation that explores the space between creation and perception, where the familiar is transformed into the extraordinary, and where the art of making becomes poetry itself.

Istituto Ciechi di Milano
via Vivaio 7
20122 Milan

More info:: info@wonderglass.com

In a virtuous dialogue between renewal, transformation and design, Prima Assicurazioni, the tech company that has revolutionized the Italian insurance industry through technology and digital, chooses to dress Porta Venezia Design District as Main Partner for the 2025 edition of Milan Design Week, collaborating with the visionary creative studio Toiletpaper, founded by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. The artistic intervention will reinterpret urban spaces starting from the famous Bastioni di Porta Venezia through the recognizable and impactful visual language of Toiletpaper'S iconic snakes to represent the tale of a fast and dynamic reality that “changes skin” but remains consistent with itself. Just like Milan's urban spaces and like PRIMA itself, which in ten years of activity has been able to rapidly impose itself in a traditional market such as the insurance one, with more than 4 million active customers, without ever losing the innovative charge that has always characterized its technological DNA. Moreover, in an age in which experimentation and contamination become sap for new visions, technology is not only the engine of the future, but also that one thing destined to permeate all people's activities, an element, indeed, that knows no “boundaries”.

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Lime, the world’s leading shared electric vehicle company, is thrilled to announce its collaboration with Raffles Milano, an international design institute, to launch a limited-edition collection of bikes and e-scooters.
These unique vehicles will be available throughout Milan Design Week 2025, within the vibrant Porta Venezia Design District. This partnership aligns perfectly with this year’s theme, Connected Worlds, celebrating participatory and generative design. Through Lime and Raffles Milano, design and urban sustainability move forward together, merging innovation, smart mobility, and creativity into a unified experience. The collaboration comes to life through the 72 Hours Project, a unique educational initiative by Raffles Milano, where students take on an intensive three-day design challenge. The objective is to transform Lime’s vehicles into iconic design pieces that integrate into Milan’s urban landscape, balancing functionality with aesthetics to present a fresh vision of sustainable mobility. Milan, a global design capital, becomes the ideal stage for a mobility experience that transcends mere transportation: it becomes a statement of style, enhancing and engaging with the city itself. For this occasion, Raffles Milano students will reinterpret Lime’s bikes and scooters with an approach that harmonizes aesthetics and practicality, turning them into true design elements that converse with the urban environment. The result will be a limited edition of approximately 100 vehicles, celebrating the city’s rhythm, energy, and creative spirit while offering a new way to experience sustainable mobility.

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Meet Digital Culture Center, the first International Center for Digital Art and Culture in Italy, established in Milan with the support of Fondazione Cariplo and founded by Maria Grazia Mattei, will once again this year, for the third consecutive time, be the headquarters of Porta Venezia Design District for Milan Design Week 2025.

On this occasion, the public will be able to visit the exhibition Realia by Sabrina Ratté: this is the first Italian solo exhibition of the Québécois visual artist who explores the convergence between technology and biology, questioning the new relationship between nature and the digital environment. Through an immersive exhibition path, which fits perfectly into the Meet the Nature program that addresses the theme of nature in a critical and innovative way, beyond the simple discussion on recycling and sustainability, the artist investigates the interaction between materiality, virtuality, and spirituality, proposing speculative scenarios in which the natural world evolves in symbiosis with the residues of technological civilization. A journey made possible thanks also to the support of Haiki+, a leading company in the environmental sector dedicated to recycling, recovery, and treatment of industrial waste by applying the principles of circular economy.

Milan

More info:: team@meetcenter.it

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, Artemest, the destination offering unrivalled access to the world of Italian craftsmanship and design, announces the third edition of L’Appartamento by Artemest. Set during Milan Design Week 2025, the milestone exhibition celebrates the timeless allure of Italian craftsmanship and design through the lens of globally renowned design talents at Palazzo Donizetti, a 19th-century architectural masterpiece located in Via Gaetano Donizetti 48.

Inside, internationally acclaimed interior design studios, 1508 London, Champalimaud Design, Meyer Davis, Nebras Aljoaib, Romanek Design Studio and Simone Haag, will each transform a distinct room, showcasing an extraordinary selection of furniture, lighting, home décor and art by over 180 Artemest’s artisans, brands, and artists. Together, they will craft spaces that exemplify the beauty, uniqueness, and creativity of Italian craftsmanship and design.

Palazzo Donizetti
via Gaetano Donizetti 48
20122 Milan

More info:: press@artemest.com
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Driven by curiosity, Škoda Auto transforms exploration into an immersive experience, brought to life through the creativity of Italian artist Marcantonio. In the courtyard of PAC, Milan’s Pavilion of Contemporary Art, sculptures, and technology merge to transform the space into a dreamlike landscape. A fantastic road trip unfolds through suspended paths, symbolic creatures, and poetic landscapes, where animal and nature-inspired statues metaphorically embody the essence of the new all-electric Elroq. These dynamic installations, enhanced by exciting technology, bring the car’s characteristics to life through emotion and discovery. More than an exhibition, it’s an exploration—, a space that invites you to look beyond and embrace a new way of experiencing mobility.

PAC - Padiglione Arte Contemporanea
via Palestro 14
20122 Milan

More info:: bemore.design