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Design without borders
From lighting and large-scale art installations to experiments with paper, plastics and fungi, Edward Linacre Studio is entering a new chapter built around creativity, collaboration and sustainable material research.
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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.
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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.’
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A new partnership for timber flooring
A global partnership between Tongue & Groove, Established & Sons and Raw Edges signals a shift in how flooring is designed, produced and positioned within interiors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Milan reflections with DKO
DKO’s Koos de Keijzer and Michael Drescher bring us this personal report from Salone del Mobile 2025 in Milan.
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Pedrali’s new modular lighting collection is a rich marriage of Italian and Japanese design
The esteemed Italian brand has collaborated with Yusuke Kawai to create Kawara, a lighting collection defined by adaptability, elegance and a touch of tradition.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Products already catching eyes at Milan Design Week 2025
These early product standouts — from sculptural forms to reflective surfaces — capture just a sliver of what Milan Design Week 2025 has begun to unveil.
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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.
Ideas
“From the spoon to the skyscraper”
With no expense spared, the collaboration between Hannes Peer and Minotti went through a series of iterations to emulate the imperfect perfectionism embodied within the respective oeuvres.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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.
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IndesignliveAsia Milan Edit highlights latest trends, products and design’s best
Whether you’ve visited this year’s Salone del Mobile or not, we’ve got you covered. Check out our exclusive Milan Edit for the best and latest scoop in design you ought to know.
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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.
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Elisa Ossino’s “techno-archaic” design approach
For Italian designer Elisa Ossino, the future of design is at the convergence of nature and technology. We chat with her at V-ZUG’s Fluxus installation during Salone del Mobile to learn about how this philosophy is permeating many parts of design.
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5 Salone moments with DKO’s Michael Drescher
It’s hard to decide what makes a highlight list from the sheer volume of amazing things on show at Salone del Mobile. With a discerning eye, Michael Drescher, DKO’s head of interiors, shares his top 5 picks with us.
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8 best lighting brands’ latest creations at Euroluce
After a long hiatus, Euroluce returns to Salone del Mobile this year. Aleesha Callahan shares some of the shiny, innovative and exciting new designs, straight from the fairgrounds.
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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.
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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!
Furniture
5 furniture pieces for evolving living spaces
Lapalma celebrates 40 years at Salone del Mobile Milano with a range of new furniture perfect for defining the open hybrid environments of contemporary living spaces in the office or the home.
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Furniture for evolving living spaces
Lapalma celebrates 40 years at Salone del Mobile Milano with a range of new furniture perfect for defining the open hybrid environments of contemporary living spaces in the office or the home.
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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.
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Sensory design overload at Fuorisalone 2022: Cera Stribley’s Milan report
Cera Stribley’s head of interior design, Jessica Coulter, reports back from Milan Design Week and tells us why Fuorisalone put on a better show than Salone del Mobile in 2022.
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7 memorable installations at FuoriSalone 2022
Alongside the plethora of new pieces released during Milan Design Week, the FuoriSalone is an opportunity to experience creative installations designed to spark inspiration.
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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.
Furniture
9 new product launches from Milan Furniture Fair 2022
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.
Events
Are you heading to Milan Furniture Fair 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.
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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.
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More favourites from Salone del Mobile 2021
We’re back again for another showcase of our favourite moments and pieces from Milan Design Week 2021. Read on to discover a selection of some of the globe’s most remarkable designs from the past year.
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Relive the best of Salone del Mobile 2021
Say ciao to Milan Design Week once again. In this multi-part series, Indesignlive.sg places the spotlight on some of the best in design as we unfold the latest product launches of the year.
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Che bello! Relive the best of Milan Design Week 2021
Say ciao to Milan Design Week once again. In this multi-part series, Indesign welcomes some of the best in design to centre stage as we unfold the latest product launches of the last year.
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September looking promising for Salone del Mobile 2021
The Italian Government has released a statement showing confidence in a possible Salone del Mobile 2021 event in September.
People
How BIG-GAME design studio got its name
They might go by the name BIG-GAME, but Elric Petit, Grégoire Jeanmonod, and Augustin Scott de Martinville of BIG-GAME design studio are about as humble as they come.
Articles
OE Quasi Light: Illuminating Mathematical Forms
“Light shapes everything; it determines what we do and how we do it.” The OE Quasi Light by Louis Poulsen finds a harmonious balance between function and design through finding the geometric beauty in mathematical forms.
Events
Salone Del Mobile Shanghai Showed Expansion of Italian Brands In China
The Salone del Mobile.Milano Shanghai presented 127 brands over three days, with a stronger emphasis on innovative design than in previous years.
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Salone del Mobile.Milano Returns To Shanghai In November
China is the best-represented foreign country among visitors to the Salone del Mobile in Milan. The Shanghai edition returns with high visitor numbers anticipated.
Products
Hush Now… BIG GAME’s Quiet Designs For Karimoku New Standard
A ‘quiet’ design, a durable character and a solid working relationship contribute to the ongoing appeal of BIG-GAME’s Castor collection for KNS.
Products
Solid Wood Furniture Makes Its Mark In Milan
Is it being fuelled by a retreat from technology, a focus on crafting, or the will to slow down and pause? Simple, robust, solid wood furniture seems to be making a comeback.
Products
10 Products We Love From Milan Design Week 2019
From a modular lighting system inspired by electric slot car racing to curvaceous sofas composed like the art of stacking stones – here are 10 products we love from Milan Design Week 2019!
Products
Solid Wood Makes Its Mark At The Salone Del Mobile
Is it being fuelled by a retreat from technology, a focus on crafting, or the will to slow down and pause? Simple, robust, solid wood furniture seems to be making a comeback.
Products
Are We Serious About Sustainable Products?
There’s a surprisingly sparse emphasis on sustainable products during the world’s biggest furniture-design week. We’ve been scouring the brand offerings in Milan for beacons of progress. Here are some we’ve found.
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Pieces Of Quiet: BIG-GAME Expands Its Castor Collection For Karimoku New Standard
A ‘quiet’ design, a durable character and a solid working relationship contribute to the ongoing appeal of BIG-GAME’s Castor collection for KNS.
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Indesign Media Is Heading To Salone del Mobile 2019 – Are You?
The 58th edition of the Salone del Mobile.Milano is less than one month away; we are packing our bags and finalising our schedules – will you be there?
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Indesign Media Team Is Heading To Salone Del Mobile 2019 – Are You?
The 58th edition of the Salone del Mobile.Milano is less than one month away; we are packing our bags and finalising our schedules – will you be there?
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Gearing Up For Salone Del Mobile.Milano Shanghai 2018
Salone del Mobile.Milano Shanghai 2018 will showcase the very best from 119 brands for a total immersion of ‘Made in Italy’ lifestyle.
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Walking into colour with Hermès
During Milan Design Week, Hermès presented its colourful Collections for the Home 2018-2019 in an immersive, intimate and dreamlike setting where colour was an element to be inhabited.
Products
Crossing boundaries: The rise and rise of cross-over furniture
It’s been touted as a trend, but we predict it will only continue to increase in popularity, that is – furniture designed for use across multiple typologies. Here’s a round-up of standouts from the Salone.
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The top installations from Salone 2018
Along with chairs, the Salone del Mobile has become synonymous with extravagant installations. Here is the top 6 from this year.
People
5 minutes with Oki Sato in Milan
Oki Sato of Nendo needs no introduction. He has achieved cult status among designers and design-lovers alike, with a prolific output of products that range from cheesecake to robots, furniture items and more.
Products
Foscarini lighting the way
ECAL and Foscarini present an intimate exhibition at Palazzo Litta showcasing nine lighting objects that explore the ways light accompany our movement in a space.
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Designers overheard in Milan
Short and snappy and straight from the streets. This is the quick-fire digest from a gamut of the world’s best designers at the 2018 Salone del Mobile Milan.
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#MilanIndesign2018: Top Chair Picks
Salone del Mobile never has a shortage of chairs. We’ve picked out six that show why there’s still value in reinventing that wheel.
People
5 mins with Daniel Heckscher of Note Design Studio
We talk design strategy and a multidisciplinary approach with Daniel Hecksher of Swedish collective Note Design Studio during the Salone del Mobile Milan.
Ideas
What’s hot at EuroCucina
At EuroCucina, the world’s top kitchen brands reveal their fashionable vision for the future of cooking, dining and hosting in the kitchen.
Ideas
You, the designer, are a desirable audience
Putting design on a global stage, the Salone del Mobile isn’t just for showcasing the newest product. Increasingly it’s about the activities outside the fairgrounds, and as commerce moves in at the juncture of art and design, one crowd of people are clearly being targeted.
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Fiona Lynch’s guide to surviving Milan… Or any trade show
Whether you’re planning to go this year, or hoping to make it next year, one thing is for certain when it comes to trade shows – there is so much to take in. So grab all the advice you can to make sure you have best (and smoothest) experience.
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!
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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
Orb in Space: Foscarini’s Satellight Lamp
Eugeni Quitllet’s new light for Foscarini, unveiled at Euroluce in Milan, captures the poetic lightness of a gravity-free environment.
Events
The #Salone17 Review: What More Should We Expect From Milan?
For anyone who couldn’t make it to Milan’s Salone del Mobile and Design Week this year, Cubes magazine’s Milan in Review panel at Xtra had all the need-to-know insights!
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Potocco Takes its Artisanal Culture to the Next Level
Potocco has taken things up a notch with its 2017 Collection. There were plenty of unexpected forms and materials in the brand’s Salone del Mobile stand.
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You’re Invited: Milan in Review 2017
Couldn’t make it to Milan this year? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered!
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Stellar Works’ East-West Dialogue
Shanghai-based Stellar Works sees itself as the first global furniture design brand from Asia, and has been building its presence steadily since its founding in 2012. In Milan this year, the brand presented a major installation in the Tortona district.
Events
5 of the Best Stands at Euroluce 2017
Now that the dust has settled on another jam-packed Milan Design Week, we take a minute to look back at some of our favourite experiences at Euroluce 2017.
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News Flash: IKEA is Cool
What used to be one of the design world’s most reviled institutions is now earning a reputation as an authentic design house, committed to investing in original talent. And their efforts at the recent Salone del Mobile 2017 were aimed at emphasising this new era for the brand and for design democracy.
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Zaha Hadid Architects for Samsung
In the spirit of the late Zaha Hadid, ZHA have whipped out an extraordinary collaboration with Samsung for Milan Design Week 2017.
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Kartell Presents ContamiNation
Kartell is a nation contaminated by different ideas and styles… It has no limits or boundaries and no barriers stand in the way of creativity, which roams freely inside the brand’s presentation this year.
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Marni’s Playland in Milan
Just for the occasion of Milan 2017 Salone del Mobile, famed fashion-house Marni has transformed its space at Viale Umbria 42 into one big designer-heaven playground: The Marni Playland.
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Chromatography: the Colour World of Scholten & Baijings
Herman Miller, Maharam and Scholten & Baijings present brand new textiles and furniture in a colourful exhibition on the occasion of Salone 2017.
Products
In Milan: Behind the Scenes with Doshi Levien for Kettal
Doshi Levien give us special insights into their new products for Kettal: fresh members for the Cala family, geometric rugs, and subtle duo-tone textiles and ropes that can be used across the Kettal collection.
Furniture
Daydream in Comfort
If we had to dream up a dream way to sit, it could well come in the form of this multifunctional Daydream seat that’s just been unveiled by Joynout studio at Milan Design Week – comfort never look so good!
Furniture
Benjamin Hubert’s Intelligent Knit for Moroso
Among Moroso’s novelties at the Salone del Mobile 2017 are two prototypes for a chair with a complex 3D-knitted mesh construction that shows the efficiencies possible with new production techniques.
Lighting
10 Lighting Finds in Euroluce
We’re bringing you the top 10 lighting finds from this year’s Euroluce at Fiera Salone del Mobile!
Furniture
Barber & Osgerby on Vitra’s New Mariposa Club
We caught up with dynamic duo Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby at Salone and quizzed them about their new Mariposa Club chairs for Vitra.
Events
The Wonder Pavilion
We caught up with Jaime Hayon at Palazzo Serbelloni in Milan, where Caesarstone unveiled his latest wonderland: a fun take on the idea of the pavilion with a Hayon-esque dose of eccentricity.
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Engineered Nature
Humanscale presents the RE:CHARGE Café at Fuorisalone, a nature-inspired oasis that strives to physically and mentally re-energise visitors in a carefully curated and researched space.
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Iron Women
De Castelli’s Tracing Identity presentation in Milan shows seven impeccably crafted metal products by female designers in a bid to dispel any myth that metal is cold and unengaging