Milan
Project
An Italian sea urchin finds Gold Coast hospitality
Bar Ricci by Studio Kennon brings a touch of Milanese restaurant style to the Gold Coast, inspired by the meaning of ‘ricci’ in Italian.
Events
Q&A: Kengo Kuma in Milan
Kengo Kuma, founder of Kengo Kuma & Associates and Pritzker Prize-winning architect, talks us through his collaboration with Jaipur Rugs that culminated with a showing at Milan Design Week 2026.
Project
March on Milan
Rodney Eggleston, Australian architect and founder of March Studio, designed one of Milan Design Week’s standout installations in 2026 as Aesop took over Santa Maria Del Carmine for its ‘Factory of Light.’
Events
3daysofdesign promises a collective recalibration from ‘more’ to ‘meaningful’
After Milan Design Week’s ‘festival of consumption’, 3daysofdesign offers a much-needed reset, an opportunity to ‘make the world a better place’ and perhaps even a soft-launch of the future.
Events
“I’m not trying to design a shape, I’m trying to shape a feeling”: Eugeni Quitllet & Pedrali in Milan
At Salone del Mobile 2026, Catalan designer Eugeni Quitllet launched Libre, a new seating collection with Pedrali that focuses on form, function and ergonomics.
Events
Some special commercial pieces from Salone del Mobile
Milan Design Week means more than lounging in luxury and the latest in bathroom beauty. We pull out a handful of exciting commercial furniture highlights.
Products
The kitchen and bathroom launches at Milan Design Week 2026
From sculptural basins and wellness-led bathrooms to kitchens and professional-grade appliances, these Milan Design Week releases reframed the home’s most functional spaces as places of ritual and care.
Products
Standout furniture launches from Milan Design Week 2026
From indoor-outdoor furniture systems and archival reissues to experimental lighting, circular materials and collectible surfaces, these launches captured Milan Design Week’s broader conversation around comfort, craft, longevity and atmosphere.
Events
On Milan: The good, the bad and the trendy from Salone del Mobile 2026
Salone del Mobile and the wider Milan Design Week again provided plenty of food for thought this year. Here, we reflect on some design ‘trends’ as well as taking a more critical view of the annual gathering.
Events
Milan Design Week 2026: Standout exhibitions and installations
From Aesop’s light-filled installation by Australian architect Rodney Eggleston to Molteni&C’s immersive garden worlds, these are the exhibitions, launches and interventions shaping Milan Design Week so far — with more to come.
Events
Apartments on show during Milan Design Week
From Muuto’s softly lived-in Brera apartment to Artemest’s palazzo-scale grandeur and Studiopepe’s introspective project apartment, these Milan Design Week interiors use the home as a stage for design, feeling and identity.
Events
It’s time for Milan Design Week!
A selection of anticipated highlights to whet the appetite as Milan Design Week 2026 gets ready for kick-off in April.
Articles
From Milan to Melbourne – Dome’s Dazzling Decade
Superb design evokes an instinctive sensory response. Our eyes linger on lines and curves, our bodies lean towards the experience of touch, and our imaginations suggest scents of salty breezes, sun-warmed citrus or rich espresso.
Events
Will you be travelling to Milan Design Week 2026?
Salone del Mobile arrives in April and we’ll have our team over there as usual – get in touch if you’re heading over from Australia, New Zealand or the wider Asia-Pacific.
Events
Italian design icon Roberto Palomba joins the podcast during Australia trip
Italian architect and designer Roberto Palomba has been travelling across Australia in February 2026 for a series of talks, showroom events and product launches.
Events
Casa Kartell is a home within a showroom as Roberto Palomba visits Australia
As Roberto Palomba visits Australia, Space Furniture unveils a 450-square-metre apartment installation that positions Kartell not as a collection of objects, but as a complete way of living.
Project
Rattan Reimagined: Enter Projects Asia for Massimo Dutti
Crafting form and creating function with rattan, Patrick Keane and Enter Projects Asia’s latest project is proving to be a draw card for shoppers at the dynamic fashion house Massimo Dutti.
Furniture
Ross Gardam unveils Dwell, a refined modular collection
Where style and substance truly dwell, Gardam’s latest modular collection – available through Stylecraft – balances elegance and versatility.
Ideas
A milestone conversation with David Hicks
The Melbourne-based interior designer is celebrating his eponymous practice’s quarter-century. He joins Timothy Alouani-Roby at The Commons during a flying visit to Sydney to discuss this milestone and much more.
Events
Adelaide launches its first dedicated Design Week this August
Adelaide will debut its first city-wide design festival – every*where: Adelaide Design Week – from 20th to 24th August 2025.
Furniture
Cult’s Richard Munao on Stories Indesign
The founder and managing director of iconic Australian furniture brand Cult joins us on the podcast to discuss his journey through the world of commercial design.
Events
Milan reflections with DKO
DKO’s Koos de Keijzer and Michael Drescher bring us this personal report from Salone del Mobile 2025 in Milan.
Events
Reporting from a whirlwind Melbourne Design Week
What a week! With so many events still to come, Jan Henderson gives us a taste of what the 2025 edition has been like so far.
Events
A stroll with Ross Gardam in his Milan exhibition
Ross Gardam’s installation, LUMINESCENT DUALITY, was a Milan 2025 standout. We took a tour of the space with the Australian designer to gain some deeper insights into the pieces on show.
Events
We talk to Arper’s head of sustainability at Milan Design Week
Andrea Mulloni is the head of sustainability at furniture manufacturer, Arper. With a particular emphasis on the evolving Catifa Carta chair, we chatted to him at Arper’s stand during Milan Design Week.
Events
In conversation with Vincent Van Duysen at Milan Design Week
We spoke to the Belgian architect about his work ‘Optô,’ which was on display as part of the exhibition ‘Poetica’ by WonderGlass at Milan Design Week 2025.
Events
Interview with Jaime Hayon from Milan Design Week
International design superstar Jaime Hayon met us at the Wittmann showroom during Milan Design Week 2025 to talk us through his new KOLINAS sofa collection.
Events
Product launches from Milan Design Week 2025
So many product launches – where to begin with Milan? Well, across some of our favourite brands and all kinds of areas, here are some of the highlights we saw this year.
Events
Euroluce Report: Your guide to the lights of Milan 2025
It was the year of Euroluce and all things lighting at Milan Design Week in 2025. Among a high-quality and extremely wide field, here are some of the highlights.
Events
Exhibitions and installations galore from Milan
Milan Design Week amounts to so much more than product launches, so here are a few installation and exhibition highlights that we stumbled across in 2025.
News
Thought for Humans: Milan 2025 Preview
On the eve of Milan Design Week 2025, we take a look at some of the expected highlights across product launches, installations and events.
News
Meet our Milan panellists
Habitus and Indesign are teaming up with iGuzzini for a very special event at Milan Design Week 2025 – and it’s time to reveal the esteemed guests who will be joining us!
Ideas
Stories Indesign with Georgina Wilson
Architect Georgina Wilson joins us in this episode of Stories Indesign podcast.
Events
Shaping spaces in Milan with iGuzzini: Join us for our Salone del Mobile event!
Join us at Milan Design Week 2025 for an exclusive breakfast event in the heart of historic Brera with lighting experts, iGuzzini.
Project
Old and new collides in this theatrical reimagining of a Michelin-starred restaurant in Milan
Italian design icons take centrestage in this ode of Milanese fine dining.
Events
Milan preparations are underway!
Be sure to let us know if you’ll be traveling to Italy as we prepare our extensive coverage and event plan.
Workplace
Highlights from ORGATEC 2024
The reimagined format of ORGATEC for 2024 has reinvigorated the world’s leading trade fair for workplace design, resulting in the most successful edition to date. Read on to discover highlights and new trends from ORGATEC 2024.
Events
Singapore Design Week preview: Putting people at the forefront of design
Singapore Design Week is back and bigger than ever with a people-orientated theme featuring diverse events, workshops, talks and tours.
Events
Sitting down for dinner with Peter Goetz at Gaggenau Sydney
Gaggenau’s Managing Director was recently in Australia, where we had the pleasure of hosting an exclusive dinner at their Sydney showroom.
Events
Cesar’s Dante Chester on AI integration, bespoke design and material exploration
Dante Chester, Managing Director of Cesar, outlines the brand’s commitment to pushing boundaries and the infinite opportunities for customisation with the aid of technology.
Events
We know you don’t believe in ‘trends’ but here are five from Milan anyway
From colour and materiality to textures and even the odd column, here are some offbeat, oblique observations from the great Italian festival of design.
Events
Top ten launches from Milan Design Week 2024
From a modular armchair and statement lighting, to a table crafted from coffee waste and reissued classics, these are the best new products to launch at this year’s Milan Design Week.
Events
Nine products to whet your appetite for Milan’s Salone del Mobile 2024
With Milan 2024 only a few weeks away, we sneak a view of some of the most exciting pieces set to go on show – from lighting design to furniture, here are nine preview products.
Events
Milan 2024: Seven installations and events to look forward to
Salone del Mobile 2024 is only a few weeks away, so we’re highlighting here seven special events, spaces and installations that we’re certainly planning to check out.
Ideas
HENRYTIMI: “An education of the mind towards history”
Milanese artisan Henry Timi celebrates natural materials through strikingly reduced geometric forms, creating a stripped-back vision of interior luxury.
Events
V-ZUG Studio Sydney, a retail gem in an old terrace, opens
Swiss home appliance designer and manufacturer V-ZUG’s first Sydney studio is a unified expression of the brand’s boutique, sustainable and design-led identity.
Events
Anna Lenti on Paola Lenti’s new Australian collections
Paola Lenti recently unveiled its latest indoor and outdoor collections with dedece in Melbourne and in Sydney, where we sat down with Anna Lenti.
Events
Will you be joining us in Milan at this year’s Salone del Mobile?
The team at Indesign is busy preparing the schedule for the year’s biggest international design fair. Let us know if you’ll be there too!
News
Paola Lenti and Francesco Rota – 25 years of collaboration
Paola Lenti, whose work is available in Australia through dedece, is in the top tier of contemporary designers and is celebrating a quarter-century of collaboration.
Products
Mobilia brings Milan’s cc-tapis to Australia
Australia’s Mobilia and Milan-based rug brand cc-tapis announce an exclusive national partnership, blending tradition with contemporary design innovation.
People
Taking poetic license with H+O’s Elisa Ossino and Josephine Akvama Hoffmeyer
H+O’s ceramic practice is a wild exploration of surface and colour, feeding into interior concepts that plunge us deep into the sight, sound and taste of a space.
Events
Vale Rodolfo Dordoni 1954 – 2023
This week we say goodbye to renowned Italian designer Rodolfo Dordoni and reflect on the enormous influence he had on the design industry.
Events
The Wrong Shop at the right place: Sydney’s Edition Gallery by Living Edge hosts artistic design exhibition
Drawing on Milan experience and marking its first showcase in Australia with a collection of works from contemporary designers, The Wrong Shop is putting on an exhibition hosted by Living Edge. The pop-up is open to the public every Thursday, Friday and Saturday between 12pm – 4pm.
Edit
The ultimate commercial furniture and lighting guide, from Milan
We visit the top stands at Rho Fiera to select the best commercial products released in Milan. Add to this Q&As with Jaime Hayon, and a kaleidoscopic capture of colour and texture: all in the Exclusive Milan Edit, courtesy of INDESIGN.
Articles
Back to nature with Pedrali
In this edition of The Edit, Pedrali celebrates its 60th anniversary as a globally acclaimed brand. Join us as we traverse Pedrali’s worlds of reference and the future of natural design showcased at Salone del Mobile 2023.
Ideas
Milan exclusive: Luca Nichetto on the value of being a generalist
Renowned designer Luca Nichetto says when it comes to his craft he is “100 per cent a generalist, because as a generalist you get to be a director of an orchestra”. Aleesha Callahan spoke with Luca during Salone del Mobile.
Events
Lights up! 7 of the brightest new lighting brand updates at Euroluce
We’re reporting from the fairgrounds of Salone del Mobile where the world’s most exciting lighting design showcase, Euroluce, is happening. Aleesha Callahan picks out 7 brands presenting epic new pieces.
Events
Calling all visitors to this year’s Salone del Mobile
The team across Indesign is filling the calendar with events in preparation for the year’s biggest international design fair, but the most important question – will we see you there? Let us know!
Articles
Sustainability and supply chain issues top the design agenda
An expert panel of local and international designers has confirmed that sustainability and supply chain issues remain high on the agenda. Read more insights from their discussion, hosted by V-ZUG during Milan Furniture Fair.
News
5 commercial products, launched this week in Milan
Halfway through Milan, design-breaking pieces keep on coming. With Habitus editor Aleesha Callahan on the ground, get the first look at these commercial pieces for all your workplace desires.
Events
Hot off the press! 9 new product launches direct from Milan Furniture Fair
The sights and sounds of Salone are in full swing this week for the much-anticipated return of the world’s biggest design fair. Aleesha Callahan reports on the latest releases on the ground.
News
See you in Milan! Furniture fair returns this June
Yes, Salone del Mobile Milan is locked in, taking place 7-12 June 2022. Are you heading to the fair this year? We want to know.
Ideas
David Rockwell, designer of wonders
In this interview David Rockwell discusses turning theatricality into a design tool and discloses how seriously he takes the experience a space can generate.
News
Did you hear? Milan Furniture Fair is happening right now
18 months since we last experienced Milan Furniture Fair, at last, it’s back! Here’s what to expect (and what not to miss) during the reimagined week of design.
Articles
Corian® Heads to Milan for the 2018 Salone del Mobile
Only days away from the annual Salone del Mobile di Milano, we’re getting ready for the biggest years in design innovation.
Products
Flexibility Milano style with the Corian Cabana Club
Inspired by a utopian bridge between cultures maximalist styles and colour, the Corian Cabana Club is a showcase of the versatility of the Corian brand, and a celebration of design explorations.
News
Bravo Tacchini! One of Italy’s Oldest Brands Reinvents Itself at #Salone17
The Italian brand paraded several new collections for us to swoon over and introduced us to some fresh design talent!
Videos
Indesign + Stylecraft Present : The Salone del Mobile 2017 Edit
Check out our official edit of Milan’s 2017 Salone Del Mobile, in collaboration with our friends at Stylecraft.
Articles
Turning Japanese … ‘Wood’-Turning Japanese, That Is!
Japan’s biggest wood furniture manufacturer certainly didn’t disappoint in Milan this year with an exciting line-up of new designs!
Project
Why Less is More for our Social Spaces (… more or less)
The hospitality sector caters to specific needs – from eating and drinking to socialising and relaxing – so by keeping design features pared back and unobtrusive, other sensory aspects such as flavours and aromas can shine through.
Articles
Want To Get ‘Together’ With Arper? We’ve Got You Sorted!
Psssssssst … here are some secrets straight from Europe about a new model of collaboration.
Products
Looking Back on Milan: A Top 10 ‘Must See’
With the 2017 Salone Del Mobile Milan Design Week in our rear view mirror, we take time to chat with Cult about their highlights from the event. Here, we share their top ten products from the fair.
People
5 Minutes with … David Fox!
We catch up with David Fox en route between Milan and Clerkenwell Design Weeks to chat about his world-famous ‘Kruze’ Collection.
News
Movers-and-Shakers: Prodigies of A+D
Our industry is filled with inspiring, innovative and truly ground-breaking creative practitioners. We, simply, wish to congratulate some.
People
Snarkitecture have done Another Killer Popup…and Surprise-Surprise, It’s White.
Snarkitecture, have created yet another designer spectacle, this time for Milanese fashion house, Valextra’s 80th anniversary.
Articles
Isn’t It Time Your Workstation Did Some Work?
Should we have to always rearrange our workstations every time to alleviate bad design? Maybe it’s about time that our products empower the end user!
Ideas
Seven Milan installations that were just more fabulous than the others
In the sensory cluster-barrrage that is the Milan design week, making a lasting impression requires not just beautiful product, but the creation of immersive, surprising and original environments. Indesign Managing Editor Lorenzo Logi shares his favourites from the fair.