After two really tough years due to the pandemic, during which supersalone was organised, the Salone del Mobile Milano returns with one goal: to demonstrate that it is both possible and crucial to start holding great international events live again, embedding sustainability and environmental awareness into furniture production. The 60th edition will be held at Fiera Milano Rho from 7th to 12th June, celebrating this important milestone through the key values embedded in the event: quality, innovation, beauty and, now more than ever, sustainability.

"The Salone del Mobile has always been a catalyst for creativity, positivity and energy. We have always been a place of dialogue and construction, in Milan and at the Shanghai and Moscow editions. Now, we are as shocked as everyone else by the war in Ukraine and believe even more in the importance of being a crossroads of cultures and styles open to the world," said Maria Porro, president of the Salone del Mobile Milano during the press confront held at the Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber, completely renovated and recently opened after 22 years of inactivity. "This is why we have made sure that the work of the exhibitors takes centre stage again. The event acts as a blank canvas for all its protagonists, companies, brands and designers, allowing them to project their own identities, promote their own content and tell their own stories. A point of reference for the entire design community. We cannot stand still, in fact we have a duty to move even faster in the direction of design, production and distribution solutions that are as sustainable as possible, what we need today is an ethical approach to design.”

The main element concerns the Salone Satellite, the event dedicated to emerging companies founded in 1998 by Marva Griffin. This year’s theme is Designing For Our Future Selves / Progettare per i Nostri Domani, inviting us to reflect on “inclusive” design, fostering autonomy, comfort, movement, usability, interaction and safety for all.

Environmental and social wellbeing also inform the theme of Design with Nature, the installation designed by the architect Mario Cucinella and located in Pavilion 15 with S.Project: 1,400 m2, narrating a virtuous ecosystem that will ideally represent the future of home living.

The Salone will again venture beyond the confines of the fairground and into the city: as of June 7, a monumental site-specific film installation will feature in Palazzo Reale’s Sala delle Cariatidi, based on the 11 values that have always been embedded in the Salone’s DNA. 11 films d’auteur by 11 leading Italian filmmakers will be screened, with Francesca Archibugi and Pappi Corsicato among them.

Salone del Mobile Milano
June 7 to 12, 2022
Fiera Milano Rho

Image: the manifest of the Salone del Mobile Milano 2022 by Emiliano Ponzi