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.
A selection of anticipated highlights to whet the appetite as Milan Design Week 2026 gets ready for kick-off in April.
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.
Italian architect and designer Roberto Palomba has been travelling across Australia in February 2026 for a series of talks, showroom events and product launches.
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.
Seven years in the making, the new Surry Hills Village is here with doors open and crowds gathering.
In this comment piece, COX Principal David Holm reflects on Carlo Ratti’s curatorship in which climate, colonisation and gender equity took centre stage at the Venice Biennale.
DKO’s Koos de Keijzer and Michael Drescher bring us this personal report from Salone del Mobile 2025 in Milan.
The 19th International Architecture Biennale has been on in Venice and Grimshaw’s latest installation explores the civic role of digital infrastructure in our cities.
Australian curator, writer and educator Kate Goodwin has been in attendance at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and reports back on some of the highlights.