Salone del Mobile brings Made in Italy to Art Basel

Salone del Mobile.Milano inaugurates a new phase of its international journey by entering into a three-year partnership with Art Basel Miami Beach and Art Basel Hong Kong, associating itself with Art Basel, the most authoritative platform in the global contemporary art scene. The three-year partnership across its Miami and Hong Kong shows envisions the design of its Collectors Lounge. 

The first Collectors Lounge envisioned by Salone del Mobile.Milano has been inaugurated on December 3rd, the first VIP preview day at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025. Designed by Lissoni & Partners, the Collectors Lounge at Art Basel Miami Beach was curated in partnership with a selection of companies representing Made in Italy: Arper, Artemide, Calligaris, Davide Groppi, Edra, Emu, Ethimo, Exteta, Foscarini, Gallotti&Radice, Gervasoni, Glas Italia, Living Divani, Molteni&C, Natuzzi Italia, Paola Lenti, Poltrona Frau, Porada, Porro and Visionnaire. 

“Our inaugural presence at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025, represents a natural and strategic evolution of the international trajectory that the Salone is tracing to expand opportunities for relations between Italian design and new global audiences with a high cultural involvement,” says Maria Porro, President of the Salone del Mobile.Milano. “Our role, today more than ever, is to anticipate the changes shaping the international market and to create the conditions for Italian companies to engage with new worlds, where art, design and cultural investments all come together. The partnership with Art Basel Miami Beach and Art Basel Hong Kong marks a decisive step in this direction. Bringing Italian design into the heart of its Collectors Lounges means not only amplifying the international visibility of our companies, but enhancing the culture of design as a competitive asset”. 

Also in Miami, at Faena Beach, Maria Porro and Es Devlin were the protagonists of the conversation Portrait of the Artist as a Library. The event at the Faena Theater was an opportunity to explore the creative path that led the British artist and designer to devise the Library of Us, a project created as a natural evolution of the Library of Light.