International design fair and trade show Salone del Mobile hosts its 63rd edition, returning to Fiera Milano from April 08 to 13, 2025. Paolo Sorrentino, Robert Wilson and Pierre-Yves Rochon will be the guests of the upcoming edition.
The event will host more than 2,000 exhibitors (38% from abroad), 148 brands, ranging over 169,000 square metres of totally sold out net exhibition space, including over 32,000 square metres given over to the eagerly awaited return of the Euroluce Biennial (more than 300 brands, from 25 countries).
The April 2025 edition of the Salone will feature four annual exhibitions: the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition, Workplace3.0, S.Project for a total of over 1,000 brands, including 73 first timers or returnees. A new focus will be devoted to the all-Italian ability to create timeless objects, which the Salone 2025 is naming: A Luxury Way (Pavilions 13-15). While SaloneSatellite, with 700 designers from 36 countries and 20 international design schools and universities, will once again hedge its bets on talented youngsters under 35. The theme of the 26th edition is New Craftsmanship: a New World, an invitation to re-imagine the universe of handmade products, beyond the vernacular.
Once again, the Euroluce Biennial promises to be the international platform of reference for lighting design, thanks to its high quality exhibition content, its ability to provide a clear picture of the sector's progress, driven by technology, sustainability, and innovation, intelligent systems, AI integration, biophilic design, and greater control by users, enabling them to create atmospheres and tailor-made environments. New for 2025 is the first edition of The Euroluce International Lighting Forum (April 10 and 11, Pavilion 2) with two days of masterclasses, round tables and workshops. Under the heading Light for Life. Light for Spaces, it will feature more than 20 international speakers including lighting designers, architects, artists, set designers, scientists, biologists, anthropologists, astronomers, and psychologists, invited to share visions, insights, research and design practices in a bid to stimulate a deeper understanding of the future of lighting through a multidisciplinary approach. The venue will be the Forest of Space Arena, an exceptional space designed by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, author of the metallic cloud at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (London, 2013) and of the Arbre Blanc residential tower.
The Salone del Mobile Milano will open with Robert Wilson’s Mother, at the Museo Pietà Rondanini, Castello Sforzesco, where on April 6, in an ideal bridge with Milano Art Week, the famous American artist will dialogue with Michelangelo's unfinished last masterpiece to music by Arvo Pärt. At the Salone, visitors will be greeted by a project of strong emotional impact: La dolce attesa, a site-specific installation by Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino (Pavilions 22-24), followed by a chance to examine Villa Héritage in Pavilions 13-15, a visionary interior design project by Pierre-Yves Rochon, the French architect who has designed some of the most exclusive "addresses" in international hospitality, not least the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
Also, at the Salone, for the third year running, the Formafantasma Arena will host Drafting Futures. Conversations about Next Perspectives (Pav. 14): 5 days of talks and round tables curated by Annalisa Rosso, Editorial Director & Cultural Events Advisor of the Salone, featuring, among others, thinkers and architects such as Lesley Lokko, founder of the Africa Futures Institute and curator of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of Biennale di Venezia, Valeria Segovia, Director and Design Director of Gensler in London, the world's largest architecture firm in terms of turnover and number of architects with clients in over 100 countries. While concluding the lecture series, the filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino.
In addition to these, there will be the two-day first edition of The Euroluce International Lighting Forum. Under the headings Light for Life and Light for Spaces, the forum will be held in the new Forest of Space Arena by Sou Fujimoto, hosting 6 masterclasses, 2 round tables, 2 workshops with 20 international speakers. An event that will make Euroluce 2025 a hub of knowledge and innovation for the future of lighting design. The guests will include Stefano Mancuso, pioneer of plant neurobiology, the solar designer Marjan van Aubel, and the Japanese lighting designer Kaoru Mende, who will explore the present and future of lighting design from three different perspectives: innovation, sustainability, and well-being.
Salone del Mobile & Euroluce 2025
April 08 - 13, 2025
Fiera Milano - Rho
Strada Statale del Sempione
Special Projects @ Salone del Mobile
- A Luxury Way-Pavs. 13-15
- Paolo Sorrentino - La dolce attesa
- Pierre-Yves Rochon - Villa Héritage
Special Project outdoor
Robert Wilson: Mother
April 08-May 18, 2025
Museo Pietà Rondanini - Castello Sforzesco
