Salone, Milano and beyond. The 2025 Salone del Mobile.Milano tour kicks off in Copenhagen
Copenhagen, panoramic view of the city
The event returns to Denmark for the second year to promote the next edition. Among the novelties, the first ever Euroluce International Lighting Forum
“Salone, Milano and beyond”, the international tour of the Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025 kicks off from Northern Europe. At the invitation of the Italian Embassy in Copenhagen, the event is returning to the capital of Denmark for the second year to share with the Nordic countries the very first information about the 2025 edition, from 8th to 13th April at Rho, Fiera Milano.
Copenhagen, with the Climate Plan 2035, is among the most advanced cities in terms of sustainability, a key challenge for the Salone and the world of design. This commitment is further confirmed for Euroluce 2025, which on 10 and 11 April will host the first edition of The Euroluce International Lighting Forum, a project directed by Annalisa Rosso, editorial director and cultural events advisor of the Salone del Mobile.Milano, in collaboration with APIL. This is a two-day event to reimagine light, with a new interdisciplinary approach, hosted in the arena designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto.
The stage in Copenhagen was accompanied by a thematic in-depth analysis, moderated by Erik Rimmer, editor-in-chief of Bo Bedre, with the special participation of Danish designer Zsuzsanna Horvath (SaloneSatellite 2018-2022-2024) and Dutch lighting designer Rogier van der Heide.
Headlined Light for Life, Light for Spaces, The Euroluce International Lighting Forum will present masterclasses, round tables and workshops featuring twenty international speakers on stage. They will include lighting designers, artists, set designers, botanists, scientists, biologists and anthropologists, invited to share visions, insights, research and design practices that cut across complementary disciplines in a bid to stimulate a deeper understanding of the future of lighting.
Among its protagonists are the Dutch duo Drift, with their experiments in poetry, science and nature; Stefano Mancuso, “plant neurobiologist”, director of the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology in Florence, a leading botanist and essayist; the “solar designer” Marjan van Aubel; the Japanese lighting designer Kaoru Mende, a master of light and shade; A.J. Weissbard, the American lighting designer and artist who works worldwide in theater, opera and dance. And, again: Rogier van der Heide, who has illuminated some of the most iconic collective spaces, from the Olympic Stadium in Beijing, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the largest steel structure ever built worldwide, to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the first national museum in the world completely lit by LEDs.
The April edition of the Salone – already sold out – will present notable innovations also in the cultural program: four large site-specific installations entrusted to as many great interpreters of contemporary design, a new cycle of Talks and Round Tables to share visions and new business opportunities. The first names to be announced include Robert Wilson with an extraordinarily powerful project: “Mother”, devoted to the Pietà Rondanini, Michelangelo’s last masterpiece at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. The display will be accompanied by the “Stabat Mater” by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, performed live by the Estonian ensemble Vox Clamantis. Wilson will also present a Master Class on the first day of The Euroluce International Lighting Forum (10 April, 12.00 noon).
Carlo Urbinati, President of Assoluce of FederlegnoArredo, explains: “The interaction between light, architecture and wellbeing in an integrated and multidisciplinary design approach, in which light not only makes things appear but creates atmospheres and depth and becomes an interpreter of spaces. These are the principles that, as Assoluce of FederlegnoArredo, led us to organize a dedicated international forum, the Euroluce International Lighting Forum, during the week of the Salone. I would therefore like to thank the Salone del Mobile.Milano for sharing the idea with the association, showing yet again that our trade fair is not just the leading event internationally but is uniquely the home of entrepreneurs committed to designing the future of the industry they represent. The presence of lighting companies at the Salone del Mobile.Milano is therefore strategic, and the Euroluce International Lighting Forum will be an opportunity for us to exchange ideas with designers, architects and lighting designers – fundamental interlocutors for building the future of the industry.”
Marco Sabetta, General Manager of the Salone del Mobile, concludes: “The Salone del Mobile.Milano has always been a driver of growth for the whole sector internationally, a global platform that opens Milan to the world and welcomes it as the global capital of design. For the 2025 edition, we have chosen themes and content capable of inspiring new visions and opportunities. Imagination, a pillar of change, has guided us again this year: we are reinvesting the successes of 2024 in a cultural program of excellence. The first edition of The Euroluce International Lighting Forum is just one of these initiatives, aimed at stimulating the Salone public. Thanks to record exhibitor attendance and the strengthening of international relations, the 2025 edition is already sold out, confirming the global attractiveness of the event and our role as a catalyst for established and emerging markets.”
After visiting Copenhagen, the next leg on the journey of the Salone del Mobile.Milano’s roadshow will take us to New York, Toronto, Paris.
