This year’s Salone del Mobile Milano brought together a range of installations, debuts, and collaborations from across the worlds of design, fashion, and architecture. We present a selection of these projects.
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Brioni and Lalique
Brioni and Lalique have partnered to produce Dualité, Crystal Edition Perfume: a signature scent in a beautifully sculpted flacon. Launched at this year’s Salone del Mobile Milano, this crystalline objet d’art contains a luxurious modern perfume blend concocted by the master perfumer Michel Almairac. Combining amber warmth with fresh notes of green apple and powdery florals of violet and iris butter, the scent embodies the duality of earth and air. In Milan, the two maisons debuted a limited edition of eighteen signed bottles in alabaster cases.
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Dior
Renowned designer Sam Baron joined forces with Dior for this year’s design week to present a collection of glass vases. Continuing Dior Maison’s Ode à la nature collection, the vessels are handcrafted with Italian mouth-blown glass techniques, and each measures nearly one meter tall. Available in a limited edition of eight, each vase pays homage to natural forms, such as branches, flowers, and foliage, while also echoing the silhouette of the original Miss Dior perfume bottle.
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Gucci
As part of Fuorisalone, Gucci presented a creative tribute to the role of bamboo in the fashion house’s history. In the mid-1940s, this reed-like material cropped up in the handles of Gucci’s handbags. Today, its legacy continues in the brand’s designs and took the spotlight in the exhibition Bamboo Encounters, set against the city’s sixteenth-century Chiostri di San Simpliciano. Curated by 2050+ and its founder, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, the exhibition showcased the work of several artists and collectives, from Palestinian artist Dima Srouji’s found bamboo baskets with hand-blown glass additions to Kite Club’s contemporary kites.
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Issey Miyake
For the latest installment in Issey Miyake’s ongoing APOC (A Piece of Cloth) project, the brand’s designer Yoshiyuki Miyamae has teamed up with Swiss design firm atelier oï to explore the ethos of APOC in the realm of lighting. The presentation brought together prototypes for a portable lighting series entitled O Series—codeveloped with Japan’s Ambientec, and evoking the welcoming gesture of floral arrangements—alongside A Series, a collection of lampshades made using seamless knit fabric transformed by modular wire forms.
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Loewe
The Spanish fashion house Loewe came to Milan with an ambitious exhibition of teapots—original commissions from twenty-five artists, designers, and architects. Displayed at the Palazzo Citterio were visionary rethinkings of the humble teapot by a host of creators—Chen Min, David Chipperfield, Tommaso Corvi-Mora, Simone Fattal, Shozo Michikawa, Rosemarie Trockel, Edmund de Waal, and Rose Wylie, among many others—working in both standard materials, such as ceramic and porcelain, as well as more experimental ones. The collection of unique pots was accompanied by a special collection of homewares from Loewe, such as tea cozies, tea candles, coasters, a tea caddy, and, of course, a signature tea blend (Fiori e Sapori) created in partnership with Postcard Teas.
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Loro Piana
Loro Piana and Dimoremilano joined forces to present La Prima Notte di Quiete, an immersive installation exploring the boundary between reality and cinematic fiction through the spaces of an elegant house. Hosted inside Loro Piana’s Cortile della Seta courtyard in the maison’s Milan headquarters, the experience unfolded like a film. Visitors stepped through the curtains of a vintage cinema foyer and were then transported to a fully furnished Loro Piana house. Each room was accentuated with furniture designed by Dimorestudio for Loro Piana Interiors, new and classic pieces from Dimoremilano upholstered with Loro Piana Interiors fabrics, and items from the brand’s The Art of Good Living collection. New furniture pieces conceived by Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran included the Quarona poufs and coffee tables, the Valsesia oval table, the Varallo round bed, and the velvet Trivero armchairs.
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Louis Vuitton
The year 2025 marks the launch of the Louis Vuitton Home Collection, with new design endeavors such as furniture, lighting, textiles, tableware, games, and more. At Palazzo Serbelloni, the house celebrated the collection with highlights such as Objets Nomades designs from Estúdio Campana and Patricia Urquiola. Louis Vuitton paid homage to two visionaries—Italian graphic artist Fortunato Depero and French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand—through new textile and tableware forms.
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Miu Miu
The Miu Miu Literary Club set up camp at the Circolo Filologico Milanese for its second iteration. Titled A Woman’s Education, this year’s event took up questions of girlhood, love, and sex education. Over two days the club explored the lives and works of two literary luminaries: Simone de Beauvoir, working in postwar France, and Fumiko Enchi, of Shōwa-era Japan. In addition to close readings of these authors’ groundbreaking texts, A Woman’s Education included voices of contemporary female authors in conversation. Moderated by writer and curator Lou Stoppard, the panel included international novelists Lauren Elkin, Veronica Raimo, and Geetanjali Shree.
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Prada
Curated by design and research studio Formafantasma, this year’s Prada Frames symposium, In Transit, focused on ideas rather than products. Held aboard the Arlecchino train—originally designed by Gio Ponti and Giulio Minoletti in the 1950s and recently restored by Fondazione FS Italiane—the symposium offered a prismatic gaze on infrastructure as a dynamic and multifaceted system that enables, restricts, and shapes movement, whether of people, goods, data, or power.
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Saint Laurent
The trailblazing designer and architect Charlotte Perriand was celebrated in Saint Laurent’s showcase at Salone del Mobile Milano. Taking as their source a series of prototypes and sketches by Perriand from 1943–67, Saint Laurent has faithfully reproduced and reissued a banquette (a unique piece made for the Japanese ambassador to Paris in 1966), the Rio de Janeiro Bookcase (another custom creation by Perriand, this one for Jacques Martin, her husband), the Table Mille-Feuilles (a piece that was unrealizable during the designer’s lifetime, but of which she kept a model on her desk for many years), and an armchair Perriand created for her husband’s personal use (the original was lost, and only a drawing remained). The project also honors the house’s founder, Yves Saint Laurent, a great admirer and collector of Perriand’s work.
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Technogym
Technogym celebrated the history of wellness design with the exhibition The Art of Wellness. The show opened with a retrospective of the tools that have inspired today’s wellness and sports products, such as the vaulting horse and the exercise bike. Visitors were invited to tour Technogym’s forty years of innovation, from biomechanics to artificial intelligence to the introduction of a new vision, Healthness.
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Tiffany & Co.
On April 14, Tiffany & Co. unveiled its highly anticipated new location on Via Montenapoleone. Featuring arched windows by Venini, the celebrated Murano glassmaker, as well as displays along the facade inspired by Michelangelo Pistoletto, the new store brings artistic dialogue to Milan’s Palazzo Taverna. The twelve-hundred-square-meter interior, designed by Peter Marino, continues its commitment to marrying art and jewelry with artworks by Pablo Picasso, Urs Fischer, Daniel Arsham, and Julian Schnabel, among others. This is now the house’s largest location in Europe, and will provide space to all its iconic collections, as well as a dedicated gallery space for its Elsa Peretti designs.
