The Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025 cultural events programme
Sou Fujimoto. The Forest of Space. Original Concept Sketch - ©Sou Fujimoto Architect
The Fair will be underscoring its cultural commitment with a packed programme of masterclasses, workshops, talks, round tables and site-specific installations, from 8th to 13th April. Check out the full programme
Notching up its 63rd edition, the Salone is consolidating its role a promoter of the culture of design, highlighting the importance of design as a tool for reading and shaping the world, changing it for the better. To this end, the event will see the involvement of authoritative voices in the sector, who will contribute unprecedented points of view and visions. Furthermore, this year’s content strategy is focused on quality, diversification and multi-platform distribution, reflecting the complexity and richness of stories that characterise the world of design.
Three site-specific installations, at the Salone and in the city
Three site-specific installations will be the stars of the 2025 Salone. The French architect Pierre-Yves Rochon will present his visionary interior design project entitled Villa Héritage in Pavilions 13-15. The project introduces the experience of A Luxury Way, an unprecedented exhibition dedicated to timeless living, because inheritance should not be a constraint but a source of freedom. The Villa Héritage installation affirms the importance of time and experience in an approach to interior design inspired by tradition but revisited in a contemporary key.
Paolo Sorrentino is the author of La dolce attesa, the installation at the entrance to Pavilions 22-24, dedicated to a universal experience: waiting. In the worlds of the Oscar-winning filmmaker, “Waiting is agony. The sweet anticipation of pregnancy is a journey. A stunning and mesmerising one.” A middle ground where everything is still possible, where everything can – or could be sweeter. The project has been developed with input from Margherita Palli, a scenographer with a forty-year career behind her.
The renowned American artist Robert Wilson has devised Mother, with music by Arvo Pärt, at the Rondanini Pietà Museum – Sforzesco Castle in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan | Culture. In the year of Euroluce, Wilson is presenting a “total work” dedicated to Michelangelo’s masterpiece, recognised, along with Leonardo’s Last Supper, as one of the most iconic works of art in Milan.
Sou Fujimoto. The Forest of Space. Original Concept Sketch - ©Sou Fujimoto Architect
The first edition of The Euroluce International Lighting Forum
Euroluce will herald the first edition of The Euroluce International Lighting Forum, directed by Annalisa Rosso, Editorial Director & Cultural Events Advisor of the Salone, with the collaboration of APIL (the Italian Lighting Designers Association). An event aimed at stimulating the exchange of ideas and promoting innovation in the lighting world. A two-day event, (10th and 11th April), split into 6 masterclasses, 2 round tables and 2 workshops, and held in the Forest of Space Arena (Pav. 2), designed by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, one of the most on-trend architects of the last ten years.
The programme of Talks and Round Tables is back
For the third year running, the Formafantasma Arena will provide the venue for Drafting Futures. Conversations about Next Perspectives in Pavilion 14: five days of Talks and Round Tables curated by Annalisa Rosso that will see the involvement of thinkers and designers of the calibre of Lesley Lokko, founder of the African Futures Institute and curator of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, and Valeria Segovia, Principal and Design Director of Gensler in London. For a second year, the Drafting Futures Arena will host the Salone Library project: a selection of books with the focus on light, suggested by the speakers themselves.
The Corraini Mobile Bookshop, for book lovers
Bookshop Corraini Mobile, a cura di Corraini Edizioni, darà anche quest’anno la possibilità di scoprire una selezione internazionale di oltre 110 editori, tra cui molte realtà indipendenti da tutto il mondo.
Design Kiosk, Salone in the city
Following last year’s success, the Design Kiosk will again be set up in Piazza della Scala, from 1st to 13th April - a cultural outpost of the Salone del Mobile in the city, that will feature prominent guests in a series of presentations starting at 6pm. The space was designed by DWA-Design Studio and entrusted to Corraini Edizioni. The full programme of events will shortly be available in the Events section.
