Milan Design Week 2025: Discover the Latest Trends from Fuorisalone to Salone del Mobile

Milan Design Week 2025: Discover the Latest Trends from Fuorisalone to Salone del Mobile

From April 7 to 13, the Milan Design Week 2025 transformed the city into an open laboratory, where architecture, art, and design engaged in dialogue across historic palaces and industrial spaces.

We explored some of the most remarkable installations from Fuorisalone 2025, featuring visionary concepts, innovative materials, and spectacular set designs. At the Salone del Mobile in Rho Fiera, this year dedicated to Euroluce, we discovered a wide range of products interpreting light as a physical element capable of shaping space.

Here is our selection of must-see projects from Milan Design Week 2025

Louis Vuitton – Objets Nomades at Palazzo Serbelloni

At Milan Design Week 2025, Louis Vuitton once again captivates audiences with a collection that blends art, design, and experimentation. The exhibition at Palazzo Serbelloni explores the Home Collection through five thematic chapters — Objets Nomades, Signature, Play, Decoration, and Art de la Table — each interpreted by internationally renowned designers and architects. The pieces on display stand out for their formal elegance, refined use of color, and meticulous attention to detail.

Among the most iconic creations are the High Tea Trunk, a storage piece with retro flair, and a playful take on design through foosball tables and pinball machines — where precious materials and soft hues elevate the game into a true work of art.

The exhibition path also includes a tribute to Fortunato Depero, featuring textile objects inspired by his archive, and concludes with an immersion into Brazilian culture. Four suspended seats evoke mythological Amazonian creatures, turning materials and colors into a poetic, dreamlike narrative.

This exhibition confirms the brand’s ability to explore new frontiers of living, where each piece is both functional furniture and a unique story waiting to be told.

In the courtyard, a tribute to Charlotte Perriand recreates a living space with minimalist, functional furnishings in chromed steel and textile inserts. These fabrics echo Charlotte’s nature-inspired graphics, with a special focus on alpine environments.

Milan Design Week 2025 Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades 05
Milan Design Week 2025 Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades 01
Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades 02
Milan Design Week 2025 Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades 03
Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades 04
Milan Design Week 2025 Louis Vuitton Fortunato Depero 01

Elle Decor – ALCHEMICA at Palazzo Bovara

Elle Decor presents ALCHEMICA, a theatrical and immersive project exploring the theme of contemporary living, staged within the elegant setting of Palazzo Bovara during Milan Design Week 2025. The rooms unfold like scenes in a play, creating a sensory journey that invites reflection on the evolving identity of domestic spaces.

The experience begins in the vestibule, where modules in vegan leather cover dark, textured walls, leading into a dramatic gallery lit by theatrical lighting and featuring faux fur-covered seating. The transition becomes increasingly dreamlike with a red corridor illuminated by ceiling neon lights and CC-Tapis’s iconic arrow carpet.

At the heart of the exhibition, the symbolic figure of the Philosopher’s Stone guides the narrative, weaving together mythological references and material transformations. Each space represents a stage in the alchemical process: from the Nigredo kitchen, defined by sculptural black stone and onyx volumes, to the ochre-toned bathroom, where glazed lava stone surfaces conceal cutting-edge integrated technology.

The final phase of the transformation is embodied in the suspended, light-filled relaxation area, culminating in an enchanted garden that concludes the immersive experience.

With ALCHEMICA, Elle Decor offers a vision of living that transcends pure functionality — a sensory, almost spiritual narrative where light, material, and symbolism interact in perfect harmony.

Milan Design Week 2025 Elle Decor Alchemica 01
Elle Decor Alchemica 02
Elle Decor Alchemica 05
Elle Decor Alchemica 04
Milan Design Week 2025 Elle Decor Alchemica 06
Milan Design Week 2025 Elle Decor Alchemica 08
Elle Decor Alchemica 07
Elle Decor Alchemica 10
Milan Design Week 2025 Elle Decor Alchemica 09

Marie Claire maison – La casa dell’architetto at GAM

Within the historic halls of the Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Marie Claire Maison presents an intimate and contemporary interpretation of living for Milan Design Week 2025. La casa dell’architetto unfolds across four rooms designed to center the individual and their well-being, through sensory stimulation and reflections on everyday gestures.

The entrance, bathed in light and draped in yellow fabrics, welcomes visitors into a warm and enveloping atmosphere. Next is the Tinder Room, a reimagined bedroom concept: two single beds connected by a symbolic thread of lower fringes express a new way of sharing space, while honoring the quality of individual rest. Green tones and an undergrowth-inspired setting create a calm oasis and a connection with nature.

The bathroom becomes a space of regeneration: mirrored walls and soft pink hues shape an immersive environment where self-care is translated into architecture. The experience concludes in a dedicated relaxation area — a space for pause and introspection, even at the height of the busiest week in Milan’s design calendar.

A home that welcomes and protects, where architecture becomes a tool to enhance the quality of everyday life.

Milan Design Week 2025 Marie Claire casa architetto 01
Marie Claire casa architetto 02
Milan Design Week 2025 Marie Claire casa architetto 03

EDRA at Palazzo Durini

The Edra exhibition at Palazzo Durini captivates with its sparkling elegance, reinterpreting the brand’s traditional models through the use of fabrics inspired by the natural world. Stones, gems, and minerals such as amazonite, white quartz, and onyx transform into precious coverings for upholstery, creating a veritable Milky Way of vibrant colors that capture the light. Silver, gold, and light gold give the furniture an intrinsic luminosity, with reflective effects that make them almost luminous sculptures.

The outdoor space also takes center stage, with fabrics that evoke nature, perfectly complementing the greenery of the climbing plants decorating the portico of Palazzo Durini. The contrast between the natural tones of the upholstery and the surrounding environment generates a visual harmony that highlights the organic and sophisticated beauty of the collection.

In summary, the Edra exhibition represents a fusion of aesthetic research and natural elegance, turning furniture into works of art that enchant with their beauty and the quality of the materials used.

Milan Design Week Edra Palazzo Durini 03
Edra Palazzo Durini 04
Milan Design Week Edra Palazzo Durini 05
Milan Design Week Edra Palazzo Durini 06
Edra Palazzo Durini 01
Edra Palazzo Durini 02

STAGING MODERNITY – Cassina, Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber

With Staging Modernity, Cassina celebrates the 60th anniversary of its iconic collections by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand, offering an immersive experience during Milan Design Week 2025 that embraces all forms of art. This tribute invites reflection on the dualism between modernism and contemporary design, and the contrast between artifice and nature. The theatrical performance, conceived by Formafantasma and directed by Fabio Cherstich, takes place in the evocative setting of the Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber, blending music, texts, and reflections by philosopher Emanuele Coccia, architect and curator Andrés Jaque, and artist Feifei Zhou.

At the heart of this exploration are not only the actors but also the Cassina furniture itself. The revolutionary decision to replace wooden frames with tubular metal in the past becomes part of a deeper analysis of living spaces and the dialogue between the industrial and the natural. The result is a fragmented, dynamic scene where the stage space extends between the auditorium and elevated balconies, with actors sharing the stage with animals and the iconic Cassina seating.

Hermès at La Pelota

For Milan Design Week 2025, Hermès presents a bright, minimalist environment curated by Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry. The simple, squared geometries, covered in white plaster-effect fabric, seem to float above the white floor, with vivid lights gently fading into infinity.

In this suspended atmosphere, pieces from the Hermès Home collection stand out as isolated points of color. Special attention is given to artisanal craftsmanship, with a preference for transparency. Among the highlights is the Pivot side table by Tomás Alonso, crafted from curved Japanese cedar, seemingly floating in a circular and translational motion, with a colored glass base that plays with planes and interlocks.

The vases and glasses from the collection, combining the traditional glass-making technique with stitched leather, also stand out for their artisanal precision.

Hermes La Pelota 01
Hermes La Pelota 02
Milan Design Week 2025 Hermes La Pelota 07
Hermes La Pelota 08
Milan Design Week 2025 Hermes La Pelota 09
Milan Design Week 2025 Hermes La Pelota 05
Milan Design Week 2025 Hermes La Pelota 03
Hermes La Pelota 04
Hermes La Pelota 06
Milan Design Week 2025 Hermes La Pelota 06

La prima notte di quiete, Dimorestudio x Loro Piana at Cortile della Seta

La prima notte di quiete is an immersive experience that begins in the foyer of a vintage cinema, where the muffled atmosphere invites silence and creates a respectful detachment from the outside world. The performance unfolds in a darkened space, gradually revealed by a theatrical dance of lights that guide the visitor through rooms designed to awaken the sense of touch.

Loro Piana Interiors textiles are the undisputed protagonists, with luxurious materials such as Altai wool and cashmere fabric, cotton velvet, and mohair defining each setting. The night zone—featuring a bathroom, dressing room, and bedroom—is followed by a reverse journey that explores the living room, dining area, and finally the entrance.

The installation includes standout pieces like the Snooker sofa in cashmere, the Quarona coffee table in walnut burl, and the Valsesia dining table paired with Sciura chairs in undyed cashmere. Attention to detail, from brass inlays to the refined choice of materials, shapes the identity of each element.

La prima notte di quiete is more than a design exhibit—it’s a sensorial journey that must be experienced to be fully understood. Undoubtedly, it stands out as one of the key installations of Milan Design Week 2025.

Milan Design Week 2025 Dimorestudio Loro Piana Interiors la prima notte di quiete 04
Dimorestudio Loro Piana Interiors la prima notte di quiete 05
Dimorestudio Loro Piana Interiors la prima notte di quiete 06
Dimorestudio Loro Piana Interiors la prima notte di quiete 03
Milan Design Week 2025 Dimorestudio Loro Piana Interiors la prima notte di quiete 01
Milan Design Week 2025 Dimorestudio Loro Piana Interiors la prima notte di quiete 02

Bamboo Encounters, Gucci at Chiostri di San Simpliciano

Gucci celebrates bamboo at Milan Design Week 2025, paying homage to its enduring connection with the Maison and its “timeless legacy.” The installation reinterprets this material through the hands of artists and designers, creating a series of works that convey lightness, elegance, and savoir-faire. The installation comes to life through the wind, which gently moves the tails of kites and interacts with the bamboo canes, animating the PASSAVENTO screen and fragmenting the stream of water in the sculpture 1802251226.

Bamboo—already iconic in the curved handles of the Gucci Bamboo 1947 bag—is reimagined through seven contemporary works. Scaffolding by Laurids Gallée explores the duality between the material’s lightness and strength, while Hybrid Exhalations by Dima Srouji combines bamboo with hand-blown Palestinian glass, creating a delicate yet profound encounter. Engraved by Sisan Lee reflects on the Korean aesthetic of subtraction, while bamboo assemblage no.1 connects the natural essence of bamboo with the industrial era, creating a dialogue between past and present.

Milan Design Week 2025 Gucci Bamboo Encounters 01
Gucci Bamboo Encounters 02
Gucci Bamboo Encounters 03
Gucci Bamboo Encounters 05
Milan Design Week 2025 Gucci Bamboo Encounters 04

Frozen, Tokujin Yoshioka x Grand Seiko at Palazzo Landriani

Frozen is a poetic, multisensory installation that celebrates nature and time—two deeply intertwined elements. Conceived by Tokujin Yoshioka, a Japanese artist known for blending art, design, and the natural world, the work aligns seamlessly with the aesthetic and values of Grand Seiko, a brand synonymous with precision and refinement.

At the heart of the installation is the Acqua Chair, a continuously transforming seat that changes its appearance throughout the day, responding to light, wind, and nature itself. Made entirely of ice, each of the eight chairs becomes a unique sculpture shaped by natural forces—melted by the sun and carved by the breeze—highlighting nature in its most raw and authentic form.

Inside the adjoining room, the meticulous attention to detail inherent in Japanese culture is showcased through a selection of Grand Seiko timepieces, crafted by takumi—master artisans whose work embodies the timeless bond between craftsmanship and the passing of time.

Milan Design Week 2025 Tokujin Yoshioka Gran Seiko Frozen 01
Tokujin Yoshioka Gran Seiko Frozen 02
Tokujin Yoshioka Gran Seiko Frozen 03
Tokujin Yoshioka Gran Seiko Frozen 04

LOEWE Teapot at Palazzo Citterio

For Milan Design Week 2025, Palazzo Citterio hosts a refined passing of the torch between two fashion giants: from Dior to LOEWE. The new protagonist reimagines the tea ceremony as a creative ritual with the project LOEWE Teapot, featuring the work of 25 international artists, designers, and architects.

At the heart of the exhibition is the teapot, transformed through unexpected forms and traditional materials such as porcelain and stoneware. Each piece on display is the result of both formal and conceptual exploration—teapots are shaped, reinterpreted, and decorated to become true functional sculptures.

More than a style exercise, the exhibition is a reflection on ergonomics, craftsmanship, and material experimentation. Everything is displayed on a long, minimalist white table that runs through the main hall, providing a stark, clean stage to highlight each creation to its fullest.

Milan Design Week 2025 Loewe Teapots 01
Loewe Teapots 02
Loewe Teapots 03
Loewe Teapots 04
Loewe Teapots 05

HYPER PORTAL, Michela Picchi x Glo For Art at Palazzo Moscova 18

Color takes center stage in a fluid, dynamic, and ever-changing form in the immersive installation by Michela Picchi for Glo For Art at Milan Design Week 2025. This is an installation that actively engages the audience—the artwork itself is born from the viewer’s interaction. A constantly evolving flow of color transforms at the user’s touch.

The theme of connected worlds, shared by many installations in the Brera Design District, is here interpreted through a portal, whose access creates a bridge to the digital realm. By becoming a co-creator of the work, the viewer establishes a bond with the virtual space, modifying and shaping it to their own desire.

Milan Design Week 2025 Michela Picchi Glo For Art Hyper Portal 01
Milan Design Week 2025 Michela Picchi Glo For Art Hyper Portal 02
Michela Picchi Glo For Art Hyper Portal 03

Light as Matter at the Salone del Mobile, Fiera Milano Rho

Milan Design Week 2025 isn’t just Fuorisalone — it’s also the Salone del Mobile in Rho Fiera, in a year entirely dedicated to light! So, what did it gift us?

Hinpan is the sound-absorbing solution designed by Mandalaki Studio for Luceplan. A soft, cloud-like form that feels light and enveloping, it integrates a diffuser that distributes light evenly — making it perfect both as a spotlight above a dining table and as ambient lighting for an entire room.

Davide Groppi brings a playful, poetic take on lighting. With RACE OF LIGHT, he invites us to return to a (mindful) childhood. It’s a racetrack for toy cars — but also a modular, electrified rail that unlocks creative freedom. The cars are colorful light sources, magnetically fixed and ready at the starting line for their brightest race yet.
Groppi also reimagines MAGIA with a new suspended version: a lamp where light and transparency merge. The light source is hidden behind a convex lens that creates an optical illusion, leaving behind only its luminous trail — a concept meant to intrigue and delight.

At the Foscarini booth, Ferruccio Laviani curates a luminous narrative. Here, Francesca Lanzavecchia creates Tilia, a chandelier that plays with mathematical and physical principles observed in nature, such as the Fibonacci sequence and fractal structures. The result is a poetic yet precise object. The use of satin opaline borosilicate glass diffusers ensures a soft and diffuse light despite their compact form, while the ramified structure subtly nods to organic forms.

Luce5 unveils HYLEtech, a highly refined integrated lighting system derived from research into recycled aluminum. This ultra-thin profile (just 10mm wide) emits light without exposing the light source, showcasing not only exceptional design and technical prowess but also a firm commitment to sustainability.

Lucaplan Hinpan 01
Lucaplan Hinpan 02
Davide Groppi Race of Light
Foscarini Tilia
Luce5 HYLETech

Bye bye Milan Design Week 2025

Milan Design Week 2025 revealed an increasingly emotional, intimate, and conscious way of living. At the heart of it all, not just the object — but the atmosphere it can create. Materials become a space for experimentation, light takes on a physical presence, and color becomes a vehicle for emotion.

In this weaving of aesthetics and storytelling, each installation offers a different way to interpret the present and imagine the future.

As the spotlight dims on this year’s edition, we’re already looking ahead to the next — set to illuminate Milan once again from April 21 to 26, 2026.
Until next year!

In the meantime, why not take a journey through the recent history of Milan Design Week — exploring both Fuorisalone and Salone del Mobile from the 2024, 2023, and 2022 editions?

A kitchen with a peninsula: the perfect balance between spaces and styles

A kitchen with a peninsula: the perfect balance between spaces and styles

A kitchen with a peninsula becomes the focal point of the open-space living area overlooking Val Seriana. With its L-shaped layout, it interacts with the living area through the marble-effect peninsula and with the entrance through double-sided furniture that creates a transition zone.

Kitchen with a peninsula in matte white lacquered MDF with a stoneware countertop

The layout of the kitchen with a peninsula: volumes of varying heights combine functionality with a dynamic aesthetic.

Although designed as an open space, the sequence of volumes with varying heights creates distinct areas, each with its own function. The arrangement of taller columns virtually defines a separate space while still interacting with the adjacent area through shared furnishings.

Entryway unit with an open compartment in gold leaf and an internal hanging section

The most immediate example is the entryway area. A filtering element is created by the kitchen’s double-sided columns: the first serves as a coat rack with shelves, while the second is divided into two compartments. The upper section features an open niche covered in gold leaf, standing out for its ability to reflect light from the large front windows and its refined aesthetic.
This element showcases attention to detail—from the shadow gap that visually separates it from the rest of the unit, to the glass shelves, and the double-depth back panel that houses integrated LED lighting, creating a subtle visual detachment.

Horizontal hanging detail of the entryway unit
Detail of the open compartment covered in gold leaf with a black shadow gap and glass shelf
Entryway unit with open doors in matte white lacquer and an open compartment in gold leaf
Entryway unit closed in matte white lacquer with an open compartment in gold leaf
Entryway area, front view of the double-sided divider unit

On the opposite side, the double-sided use of the columns serves the kitchen with a full-height pantry compartment. The column layout continues on the adjacent side, housing the oven column (traditional and microwave) and a freestanding double-door refrigerator. The black aesthetic line creates both a chromatic and material contrast.
Encasing these elements are doors with internal shelves and a drawer beneath the ovens, which includes an additional internal drawer for extra storage.

Double-sided entryway unit pantry with a closed lacquered door
Pantry entryway unit double sided interior shelves

The kitchen layout continues with base cabinets distributed along two sides of the space, parallel to the wall units. Connecting these elements is the marble-effect stoneware countertop with a matching backsplash.

In the corner, an undermount sink is positioned, flanked on one side by the dishwasher and on the other by a set of three service drawers. The peninsula is equipped with a cooking area featuring an induction cooktop with an integrated hood, beneath which drawers are arranged for accessories. Doors with internal shelves and front pull-out units ensure maximum optimization of this kitchen with a peninsula.

Kitchen with a peninsula, marble-effect stoneware countertop, lacquered doors, and Lacobel wall units
Drawers under the oven column
pull-out-corner-basket-lacquered-doors
front-pull-out-condiment-rack

The peninsula area becomes the key point of connection and interaction with the living space. This is achieved through a service column with a reduced depth, featuring height-adjustable internal shelves accessible from the outer side.
The peninsula is equipped with a snack counter, shaped at the structural base below. It serves both as a workspace and as a spot for quick breakfasts and meals, ensuring functionality and flexibility while maintaining a sleek and elegant aesthetic.

Kitchen with a peninsula, cooktop, and integrated hood

From the stoneware countertop to the lacquered doors: elegant materials

The choice of materials and colors for this kitchen with a peninsula aligns with the overall aesthetic, where modern elegance meets French-inspired details. This is evident in the gold accents, used sparingly for select highlights. Among these are the open compartment in the entryway, the recessed spotlights in the ceiling, and the pendant lights above the peninsula. Another refined touch is the oak parquet flooring, laid in a French herringbone pattern exclusively in the living area.

Complementing these elements, the kitchen stands out for its neutral tones and brightness. The tall unit and base doors are made of matte white lacquered MDF, while the horizontally oriented wall units feature a white Lacobel finish, echoing the glossy surface of the stoneware countertop. The under-cabinet LED lighting not only enhances functionality during food preparation but also accentuates the kitchen’s horizontal design.
The Calacatta Macchia Vecchia marble-effect stoneware from Ariostea lends grace to the countertop, particularly in the peninsula area. Here, the slim 12mm thickness emphasizes a deliberate lightness, in harmony with the apartment’s overall design.

Thin stoneware kitchen countertop
Kitchen with a peninsula, marble-effect stoneware snack counter in Macchia Vecchia
White kitchen with a peninsula and stoneware countertop

This kitchen with a peninsula is not just a functional element within the home but becomes the focal point of a dialogue between spaces, materials, and design details. Thanks to its configuration, it successfully balances practicality and aesthetics, seamlessly integrating into the living area while maintaining its own identity.

The choice of materials, finishes, and attention to detail give it a refined and contemporary character, striking the perfect balance between elegance and functionality.
Other examples of kitchens with a peninsula: one where shades of gray meet wood, another seamlessly integrated into a tavern-style setting with a bold and youthful character, and one nestled among the gray tones of an attic with charming antique accents.

A bronze color kitchen: elegance for an exclusive space

A bronze color kitchen: elegance for an exclusive space

A bronze color kitchen stands out for the elegance of its lacquered surfaces, paired with marble-effect countertops and tech-inspired LED lighting.
A story of materials and light reflections, where the main protagonist is an island kitchen with bold chromatic contrasts.

Bronze Color Kitchen with Metallic Lacquer Finish

The Island Layout and Functional Elements

Parallel volumes define the kitchen layout of this penthouse in Val Seriana, designed by Studio Architetto Mario Cassinelli.
The first block follows the perimeter wall, developing as a low unit with a spacious worktop. At its center, an undermount single-basin stainless steel sink aligns perfectly with the window overlooking the valley. To allow easy window opening, a professional-style pull-down faucet in chrome steel with a black spout has been installed.
This first block features a combination of drawers in varying heights and cabinets with internal shelves, ensuring a functional and well-organized space.

Pop-Style Lighted Sign Lamp
Kitchen Sink with Pull-Down Faucet
Base Cabinets Under the Window with Equipped Drawers

On the opposite side, the full-height column wall extends, with the first cabinets housing a built-in Liebherr refrigerator featuring a large storage capacity.Next to it, column ovens and pantry cabinets with internal shelves provide additional functionality. The lower doors beneath the oven column serve as a decorative boiserie, cleverly concealing a section of the wall with a different depth.

Bronze Color Kitchen with Metallic Lacquer Finish and Lasa Marble-Effect Stoneware Countertop
Shimmering Metallic Lacquer Finish for Furniture

Positioned in parallel at the center of these two volumetric blocks, the kitchen island takes center stage, enhanced by a Sahara Noir marble-effect snack counter. This element harmonizes with the adjacent dining table through its material choice.
At the heart of the island, an induction cooktop with an integrated extractor sits atop practical storage drawers arranged in two blocks, along with a cabinet featuring internal shelves.

Sahara Noir Marble-Effect Snack Counter and Lasa White Marble Countertop

The space is completed by a glass-enclosed wine cellar, featuring bronze-painted metal shelves set against a glossy white background.
This element seamlessly connects with the living area of this stylish loft, echoing the kitchen’s signature color palette and material choices.

Drop Ceiling with Light Cuts and Wine Cellar Entrance

The Aesthetic Identity of the Kitchen: Between Bronze-Colored Cabinets and Tech Lighting

What defines this bronze color kitchen with a contemporary design is undoubtedly its metallic effect, which stands out from a standard lacquer finish due to its ability to reflect light.
Thanks to the presence of metallic powder in the lacquer composition, the surfaces gain an elegant shimmering effect. Depending on the viewing angle, the color shifts from a deep, almost black hue to golden reflections that deliberately echo the warm veining of the Sahara Noir marble-effect snack counter.

The choice of a Lasa-effect stoneware countertop also plays a key role in shaping the kitchen’s aesthetic. Delicate gray veins elegantly stretch across a white background, while on the island, the thin-profile countertop continues seamlessly down the side, embracing the central volume and visually enclosing the space.

Shimmering Metallic Lacquer Finish for Furniture with Handle Details
Bronze Color Kitchen with Marble-Effect Island Countertop

What gives this bronze color kitchen a tech-inspired touch is undoubtedly the lighting design.
LED elements intersect across the ceiling, creating dynamic, visually striking segments. Near the back wall and the drop ceiling edge facing the living area, these lights extend vertically, appearing to embrace and illuminate the entire space.

Breaking this interplay of luminous lines is the colorful Martini sign on the back wall- a bold pop-style accent that adds energy and personality.

Sahara Noir Marble-Effect Snack Counter
Pop-Style Martini Lighted Sign Lamp

The bronze color kitchen brings both elegance and modernity to interior spaces. Its shimmering surface reveals endless chromatic nuances, giving the kitchen a dynamic and ever-changing personality. It pairs perfectly with marble-effect countertops, complementing their tones, as seen in this project by Studio Architetto Mario Cassinelli.

The metallic lacquer finish has become increasingly popular in recent years, adding character and sophistication to interiors. For more projects featuring metallic lacquer finishes, explore this apartment’s kitchen in bronze and champagne or this multifunctional kitchen in anthracite gray.

Design Week 2023: New trends in the record edition

Design Week 2023: New trends in the record edition

Milan Design Week 2023: the year of records! Confirming expectations, this edition finally returned in April with a boom in visitors and not only industry insiders.

2023 Colour Trends in Interior Design

Retracing the time course of the colours in trend in recent years, we start with the colour brass which accompanied the design world in the years 2019 and 2020, with a slight trailing off also in the first half of 2021.

Now completely disappeared, its decline has instead sanctioned the introduction of greens in all its shades. Starting with light shades such as sage, it then turned to the dark, intense tones also found in the Verde Alpi and Guatemala marbles. Already appearing in the first post-covid editions, it reached its peak in the 2021-2022 two-year period often combined with pastel pink. It also reappears in Design Week 2023, albeit in a different form. In fact, it can be found in veined marbles and open-pore wood and lacquer shades, combined with charged tones of red and terracotta but also with neutral tones of beige and powder grey.

Fuorisalone 2023 sage green
Design Week 2023 powder grey
Design Week 2023 blue Klein terracotta

Whether warm or cool, they certainly play a key role in the contemporary design scene. Terracotta tones, the great protagonists of the previous edition, are not slow to reappear in monochrome interiors or combined with intense blues.

The latter, which timidly appeared in the form of Klein blue in 2022, find their greatest expression in the current edition. Combining with the increasingly popular powder or ice grey and veering towards their darker hues, they create elegant contrasts by softening their shapes. Giving a foretaste of this is, as always, the fashion world, which in the autumn-winter 2023/2024 fashion shows in London and New York proposes interesting combinations of silver grey with darker tones of blue and burgundy.

Design Week 2023 cream terracotta
Salon green marble stained wood

The materials protagonists of Design Week 2023

Continuing the theme of the trends of this Design Week 2023, one cannot ignore the chapter on materials. The common denominator is certainly the desire to dare and experiment, underlined already by the choice of colours.

Fuorisalone desk petineuse metallic lacquered leather insert
Salon metallic copper scratched natural wood
Fuorisalone metal sample palettes
Salon kitchen metallic effect burnished brass

Metals certainly dominate the scene, experimenting with satin finishes, vibrations and chemical treatments. Lacquers also look in this direction with metallic effects ranging from delicate uniform shades to more pronounced finishes.

Design Week 2023 Elle Decor Art Light kitchen glass mirror
Salon glasswork geometries 02
Salon glazing geometries 01
Design Week 2023 transparent corrugated glass
Design Week 2023 green corrugated glass
Design Week 2023 black corrugated glass
Design Week 2023 orange corrugated glass
Salon corrugated glass 01
Corrugated Glass Salon 02

In keeping with the theme of reflections, mirrors and coloured glass are combined with these. The latter deserve a short parenthesis. During this Design Week 2023 in the Rho Fiera spaces, there was a veritable invasion of glass. Already in previous editions, they had been recognised for their caned and wavy shapes, with workmanship aimed at geometric rigour. In this edition, the attention paid to this material emerges even more, through corrugated glass that seems to recall rippled waves and sinuous movements.

Design Week 2023 transparent corrugated glass detail
Fuorisalone ash stained aqua green red
Fuorisalone ash stained aqua green
Salon pink veined marble wood metal
Velvet green veined marble salon

The desire for grit and character can also be found in the choice of woods, which dare iridescent colours such as red, blue and green treated and lacquered in both closed-pore and, above all, open-pore finishes. Marbles are also of the same type, as veined and coloured as possible. Among them all, however, is the neutrality of Travertine, which with its elegant porosity and reference to tradition embraces furnishings of all kinds.

Design Week 2023 bedside table travertine metallic lacquered dark wood
Fuorisalone armchairs travertine structure
Salone tessuti intrecciati 01
Salon woven fabrics 02
Salon woven fabrics 05
Salon woven fabrics 06
Furniture Exhibition Metallised fabric

The last chapter relates to the textile world, where the bouclet in trend in 2022 has given way to cottons and stripes with stronger contrasts, almost simulating the jeans effect. Great attention is also paid to weaves and textures, first and foremost straw. It is found both as a characterising element of chairs and armchairs, but also interpreted as a decorative element, layered with glass or mirrors.

All these trends espouse the philosophy of contrast, the guiding principle of this Design Week 2023, whether it is material through strong choices of materials that are, however, chromatically uniform, or tonal contrasts, even daring bold colours as opposed to neutrality.

Design Week 2023 straw laminated panels glass
Fuorisalone Loewe weaves
Fuorisalone Armani home weaves straw fabrics

The theme of light at Design Week 2023

Great attention in this Design Week 2023 is certainly reserved for light, not only in the spaces of the Salone in Rho, through Euroluce, but also in the many installations in the off-site area.

Among the various installations of note, The Art of Light curated by Elle Decor certainly stands out. The historic rooms of Palazzo Bovara, which has been home to the renowned trade publication for years, are metaphorically translated into the highlights of the home. The focus is precisely on the change in their perception depending on the type of light and time of day.
Thus the living area goes from being a bright room with diffuse natural lighting, conveying energy and freshness, to a comfortable environment with artificial lighting.
The latter certainly provide a more theatrical light, calibrating its intensity in relation to darkness. Indeed, the latter becomes a co-star in the design of a home.

At Villa Necchi Campiglio, it is the Occhio brand that analyses the future of light through a convivial space of discussion rather than mere exhibition. Enclosing the essence of the new proposals is an immersive installation in which the products come alive through elegant movements and dances. The theatricality of light reappears in this Design Week 2023 in the subways of the Stazione Centrale and in the nearby via Sammartini, where Dimore Gallery stages settings on the borderline between cinema, art and design.

Fuorisalone Elle Decor Art Light entrance hallway
Fuorisalone Elle Decor Art Light hall
Fuorisalone Elle Decor Art Light sofa room
Salon bookcase black glass lighting transparencies
Fuorisalone ventura central subway
Fuorisalone ventura centrale subway 02
Design Week 2023 Louis Vuitton 01
Fuorisalone Brera District light installation
Salone Mobile Euroluce BIG

The universe of fragrances

A recurring and unusual theme during this Design Week 2023 is the focus on olfaction as a design element. Analysed both as an added value of an environment and as a characterising element, it contributes to creating a perceptive memory. Analysing this theme is Mooi through its digital perfumery.

Algorithmic Perfumery mixes tailor-made fragrances thanks to a creative and experimental test integrating artificial intelligence. It is no coincidence that the installation focuses its main rooms around this machine. Placed in the centre of the entrance, it welcomes the visitor by immediately making itself known as the protagonist of the scene. It is then found on the outside, in a sort of contemporary square, where its presence can be likened to that of a bar with seating and conviviality points arranged around it. Elements that underline the importance of the experience.

At Alcova, whose location during Design Week 2023 will be moved to the former slaughterhouse of Porta Vittoria, the brand Les Eaux Primordiales, to launch its latest essence, proposes a sensorial installation composed of two towers inspired by the industrial buildings of Northern France. In the first tower, in a sort of conceptual and physical decomposition, the individual essences are presented in their purity, usable by the visitor through glass ampoules. The interactive component represents the crucial moment of the installation, also allowing the creation of movement and fluidity in the space.

Profumeria algoritmica Moooi
Acque primordiali di Alcova

Design and Haute Couture

As in past editions, contaminations from the world of fashion dominate the design scene during this Design Week 2023.

The partnership between Dior and Philippe Starck continues in the spaces of Palazzo Citterio, re-proposing the Medaillon Chair in a colourful guise. Fluid and elegant movements take the form of a path on the borderline between triumphal march and design catwalk.

Fuorisalone Dior Medaillon Chair Philippe Starck 02
Fuorisalone Dior Medaillon Chair Philippe Starck 01
Missoni

Like every year, Missoni gives energy and lightheartedness by creating a dreamlike world in which fabrics embrace doughnut and panettone seats. An environment in which to become a child again, breathing an air of freshness and brightness.

Fuorisalone Missoni 01
Fuorisalone Missoni 02
Bottega Veneta

Bottega Veneta entrusts Gaetano Pesce with the presentation and design of two new Limited Edition bags. Through a contemporary cave with resin walls and rock carvings in green tones, he combines the mountains of Este and the American prairies.

Fuorisalone Bottega Veneta Gaetano Pesce 02
Fuorisalone Bottega Veneta Gaetano Pesce 01
Furla

Furla interprets its home line through delicate neutral tones, combined with more decisive touches of colour such as green, midnight blue and bronze. Here then, at Design Week 2023, it proposes sophisticated combinations of fabrics, leathers, metallic effect lacquers, velvets, metals and the ever-present marble. A glimpse of the oriental world can be found in the choice of materials and shapes, such as the proposal of round tables instead of the traditional western-style rectangular ones.

Fuorisalone Furla home 01
Design Week 2023 Furla home powder grey midnight blue
Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton returns to Palazzo Serbelloni with Objects Nomades, a metaphorical journey among iconic furnishings set in a timeless context. In this example too, light becomes a design element in which furniture in neutral tones is inserted, as if to further soften its forms.

Fuorisalone Louis Vuitton 01
Louis Vuitton Fuorisalone 02
Loewe

Loewe instead interprets the design-fashion binomial through a parallelism between the new bags and the Loewe Chairs proposals. In the evocative inner courtyard of Palazzo Isimbardi, craftsmanship is translated into weaves and refined techniques among iridescent colours and provocative proposals.

Fuorisalone Bottega Veneta 01
Fuorisalone Bottega Veneta 02
Armani Casa

Texturality can also be read in the interior proposals of Armani Casa, which for the first time opens the doors of the historic Palazzo Orsini to the public. Between straw, onyx and jacquard fabric, one recognises the timeless elegance and mastery of Armani, in an interpretation that unites the outdoor and indoor lines in the sign of essentiality. The combination of diametrically opposed materials, such as straw and onyx, results in an absolutely recognisable stylistic interpretation. Special attention is paid to the Italian tradition and its craftsmanship, hence the choice of materials for most of the interior proposals.

Fuorisalone Armani Casa 01
Fuorisalone Armani Casa 02
Hermes

Closing the circle is the always masterful interpretation of Hermès‘ home proposals, in the well-established La Pelota location. Cement and iron are dematerialised from the building context to which they belong to become synonymous with lightness and elegance in a stylistic oxymoron. The Maison’s theatrical interpretation succeeds in transposing elements that are by nature raw and robust into light, somewhat ephemeral stylistic traits.

Settimana del design 2023 Hermes 01
Settimana del design 2023 Hermes 02

Bye bye Milan Design Week, see you in April 2024

This edition, too, concludes amid historic districts and new proposals. From the world of fashion to the influence of artificial intelligence, craftsmanship and labour.

Contaminations play a leading role in giving life to an eclectic panorama in continuous movement. Undoubtedly the great protagonists of Design Week 2023 were the palaces and historical residences that with their extraordinary opening attracted not only professionals but also families and the curious, who thus had the opportunity to get to know the world of design.

It is no coincidence that this edition was certainly one of the most complete and high-performing, as witnessed by the large numbers and huge queues to access the exhibition spaces. An edition marked by grit and personality that dares strong colour and material contrasts, but does not renounce elegance and uniformity. Let’s close the curtain with a reminder for next year!

Corner kitchen with peninsula: shades of grey and wood

Corner kitchen with peninsula: shades of grey and wood

A corner kitchen with peninsula takes centre stage in an open-space obtained from the renovation of a flat. Different shades of grey marry the wood of the snack top and wall units, which is also echoed in the detail of the shelves compartment communicating with the living area.

corner kitchen with peninsula animation small opening

Conformation of a corner kitchen with peninsula: between snack top and double-sided use

Before the renovation, the kitchen followed a corner shape within a confined room.
A separate room with side access, adjacent to the main door.
By knocking down two of the partition walls, it was possible to create an open space with the advantage of generating a brighter and visually larger room.

By following the existing electrical and plumbing arrangements and making only a few changes to the systems, the new kitchen has thus taken shape, expanding its development to embrace the living area.
Starting from the original corner shape, it then added a peninsula part that houses a hob and snack corner for a functional and youthful kitchen.

Corner kitchen with peninsula open drawers snack top
Corner kitchen with peninsula closed drawers snack top
Corner kitchen with peninsula shades of grey oak wood open compartment

Column ovens, built-in refrigerator and pantry column are located along the side wall, from which the peninsula with double-sided access then develops.
Adjacent to the ovens is the lower base unit, which also embraces the adjacent wall with a window and ends in the entrance storage wall. Next to it are the built-in dishwasher and the doors with fitted sink and pull-out corner.
The narrow 30 cm wide door on the other side is nothing more than a front pull-out for storing spices and condiments.
The upper wall unit with lighting underneath acts as a visual closing element providing additional storage space.
Completing the oven column is a storage drawer and door with a push-open top.

The larder unit with its large depth is accessible from the living area, making it more practical and functional.
The peninsula is structured in the same way with double access, with drawers of different heights on the kitchen side and doors with small glass shelves on the living area side.
The open compartment facing the living area is instead arranged centrally.

internal composition of under-oven drawers
removable inner composition front spices
interior composition door shelves
extractable internal composition front spice detail
Corner kitchen with peninsula oak grey tones
double-sided opening peninsula pantry 01
double-sided opening peninsula pantry 02

Materials, finishes and colours: between shades of grey and light wood

Elegance and freshness are expressed through a colour palette of neutral tones of grey, anthracite for the kitchen top and ice for doors and shells, combined with oak-effect inserts to convey a sense of naturalness.
Different shades emphasise the volumetric development of this corner kitchen with peninsula through a series of combinations and joints.

The top in Lapitec Anthracite with Lithos finish gives a uniform yet textured appearance, which is matched by the undermount sink in Stilgranit Blanco
Also in dark anthracite tones is the essential structure of the snack top.
The latter features an oak-effect laminate top with a warm and cosy feel, which is also used for the wall unit with drop-down opening and the open compartment in the peninsula.

A refined detail is the overlapping of the snack top with respect to the worktop, which creates a visual detachment and also acts as a supporting element for the top itself.
Completing the colour choice are the appliances and accessories. The ovens and gas hob in black ceramic glass echo the Falmec island hood and mixer tap.
Different materials united by the same total black aesthetic line.

Added to these is a delicate hanging lamp positioned above the snack top that provides functional lighting while respecting its minimalist aesthetic impact.
Minimalist visual lines with 45° shaped door and drawer grooves complete the whole.

Corner kitchen with peninsula in shades of grey lacquered doors oak wood top anthracite
materials and colours Lapitec top anthracite grey undermount sink
materials and colours Lapitec anthracite grey top
materials and colours open compartment wood oak effect 02
materials and colours open compartment wood oak effect 02
materials and colours gas glass ceramic hob black
materials and colours glass-ceramic ovens black

A corner kitchen with peninsula is recognisable by its elegant and youthful aesthetics through refined attention to detail. Functionality and openness become the keywords for a renovation that turns the aesthetics of the house upside down.  See more kitchens in light grey: a contemporary-style basement and a contemporary attic with glimpses of the past.