Furniture expo.Milano 2025: A record-breaking edition with over 2.100 exhibitors and unique cultural initiatives

From 8 to 13 April, in the over 169.000 m63 of sold out exhibition space, the XNUMXrd edition of the Salone del Mobile.Milano is ready to welcome more than 2.100 exhibitors, of which – confirming the dynamic nature of the Event – 168 brands at the Salone for the first time and 91 returning, with an increasingly consistent presence from abroad. Same trend for decision makers, buyers, designers, investors arriving at the Fair Milano, Rho from more than 150 countries. A result made possible thanks to the commitment of Salone in designing formats and experiences that fuel creative processes, strategic vision, production and distribution models, in a open dialogue between the design industry and the imagination of the protagonists of a top-notch cultural program, aimed at stimulating an increasingly broad, multidisciplinary, strategic vision connected to the future.

With numbers that consolidate its success, in the sign of a constant path of evolution, the 63rd edition of the Salone del Mobile.Milano It announces itself, once again, as the leading international event in the sector for its historical DNA, number of operators, overall turnover and quality of the industrial manufacturing proposal which, thanks to the spotlight of the Salon, connects with the World with an unparalleled offering in terms of aesthetics, functional and technological innovation, research on materials, and an aptitude for transforming sustainability challenges into a competitive advantage. Four Special Projects of the 2025 Cultural Programme: two in the city, two in the Pavilions of the Salone.

The first to inaugurate to the public, the 6 April, in an ideal bridge with Art Week, will be the installation Robert Wilson Mother, at the Pietà Rondanini Museum – Sforza Castle, a “total work” dedicated to Michelangelo's masterpiece, recognized, together with Leonardo's Last Supper, as the most iconic work of art of MilanoThe latest announced is Library of Light by British artist Es Devlin, a powerful performance experience set up in the Cortile d'Onore of the Pinacoteca di Brera: a “beacon of knowledge”, with over 2.000 volumes selected and donated by Feltrinelli to celebrate the value of knowledge. Two installations at the fair, where in Halls 22-24, the visionary gaze of Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino, Flanked by set designer Margherita Palli and the sound texture of Max Casacci, will pay tribute to a universal sentiment: the wait, the most sincere moment of life, marked by the beating of a mysterious heart.

While it is at Pierre-Yves Rochon, the absolute protagonist of the most exclusive international hotels, which Salone wanted to entrust task of giving shape to an interior idea, which reinterprets luxury in its timeless dimension: Villa Heritage (Pav. 13-15), a tribute to Luchino Visconti's Venice, to the notes of Gustav Mahler, to the talent of designing rooms that become worlds where heritage is not a constraint but an act of freedom. After the success of the edition The City of Lights (2023), 2025 is also the year of Euroluce – 306 exhibitors, among the best brands in the sector, 45% of which are from abroad. The Biennale will once again provide an international focus on the evolution of light in indoor and outdoor domestic spaces., as well as in the urban landscape.

Great anticipation for the first edition of The Euroluce International Lighting Forum, a multi-voiced comparison on the major themes of lighting design: 2 intense days of masterclasses, round tables and workshops with 20 speakers from all over the world, from solar designer Marjan van Aubel to Stefano Mancuso, plant neurologist, to the great British anthropologist Tim Ingold. After celebrating its first 2024 years in 25, SaloneSatellite returns stronger than ever with 700 designers from 36 countries and 20 international design schools and universities.

Theme of the new edition “NEW CRAFTSMANSHIP: A NEW WORLD”, an invitation to reimagine the universe of the handmade. A reflection that not only fuels the imagination of talents under 35 but also contributes to rethinking the design perimeters of the entire design industry, which at SaloneSatellite has intercepted, over the years, both an inexhaustible pool of young talents and new stimuli to better explore and understand the urgencies and challenges of the new generations of designers. Finally, great attention is paid to sustainability. Thanks to a measurable path, Since 2023 Salone has been ISO 20121 certified for sustainable event management, in parallel with the constant commitment to encouraging exhibiting companies to design and create installations following increasingly challenging Green Guidelines according to the principles that the Event sets out in its Sustainability Policy.