MILAN — The bond between design, style, artwork and music is evolving in surprising methods. This 12 months, Milan Design Week 2025 will run from Monday to April 13 and the calendar is effervescing with occasions and initiatives that may assist form the way forward for the trade, in ways in which could shock you.
Working alongside Salone del Cell.Milano, the design occasion will kick off with a celebration of sunshine to usher in Euroluce, the biennale of sunshine. English set designer Es Devlin will kick off festivities with an set up within the courtyard of Milan’s Pinacoteca and Robert Wilson will stage a music and lightweight spectacular round one in every of Michelangelo’s remaining works, the Rondanini Pietà.
As tons of of 1000’s of worldwide tastemakers from around the globe get able to descend on Milan, WWD has put collectively an insider information for tackling the world’s largest design occasion of the 12 months, with extra to come back.
Ranieri’s Francesco Meda and David Lopez Quincoces Headline Alcova
Ranieri units Milan Design Week 2025 afire with “Below the Volcano,” a multisensory journey that dives deep into the uncooked potential of nature’s untameable phenomenon. Staged within the SNIA Manufacturing facility — a defunct industrial landmark was an intriguing backdrop — the set up embraces the prowess that emerges by imbuing design and music. The rugged nature of algorithmically eroded rocks dreamed up by Italian artist Quayola and an electrifying soundscape by violinist Rodrigo D’Erasmo will come along with the placing architectural influences envisaged by Francesco Meda and David Lopez Quincoces, Ranieri’s artistic administrators.
“Below the Volcano” by Ranieri.
Alberto Strada
Dimorestudio Groups Up With Vintage Japanese Textile-maker Hosoo and Osanna Visconti
Heritage and innovation collide in Dimorestudio’s newest collaboration. Japan’s fabled textile agency Hosoo unveils the “Hemispheres Assortment” throughout Milan Design Week 2025, a momentous exploration of Japanese custom and Italian savoir faire, in collaboration with Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci’s Dimorestudio. Recognized for his or her capacity to resurrect the previous with an edgy but poetic aesthetic, the Dimorestudio design duo has remodeled over 20,000 obi patterns from Hosoo’s historic archives into 33 breathtaking materials that echo fashionable sophistication. Hosoo was based in 1688 in Kyoto, the epicenter of the traditional Nishijin textile custom. Debuting with designer Osanna Visconti, who designed the Magnolia and Bamboo bronze furnishings collections of which half are upholstered with Hemispheres Assortment textiles in her atelier in Milan’s evocative Cinque Vie district, this assortment is all about dialogue — between eras, cultures and the uncooked poetry of craft.
The end result? An infusion of custom, artistry and a contemporary aesthetic language — one which reimagines Japanese heritage via a distinctly international lens.
The Hemispheres Assortment, a brand new textile line by Hosoo in collaboration with Dimorestudio.
Courtesy of Hosoo
Kelly Wearstler’s Collaboration With The Rug Firm
Los Angeles-based inside designer Kelly Wearstler has been busy currently. Final 12 months, she lent her aesthetic to a roster of heritage corporations like French silver and tableware maker Christofle, Genoa-based residence equipment agency Giobagnara and, in 2023, she launched two collections with Belgian design model Serax. This season, she involves Milan with Crescendo, a collaboration with U.Ok.-based The Rug Firm. Inside the assortment are six designs, every in two colorways, mixing geometric precision with the fluidity of natural types.
Expertly hand-knotted by The Rug Firm’s grasp artisans in Nepal, the rugs are woven from a placing mixture of pure supplies — silk, wool, nettle and linen — layered utilizing conventional methods that ship jaw-dropping texture and a sculptural high quality. Daring but refined, Crescendo celebrates the position of craft in fashionable design.
Kelly Wearstler
Courtesy of The Rug Firm
Yves Salomon Editions Expands
After debuting his first furnishings at Milan Design Week 2024 with Chapo Creations, Yves Salomon is again. This time, the French designer will showcase an expanded assortment of 18 items, a full furnishings line known as Yves Salomon Editions.
Playful and poetic, the gathering will take middle stage within the courtyard on Milan’s through Santo Spirito 7, radiating French designer Pierre Marie’s signature eclectic aesthetic via seats, cushions, blankets, stools and even a lamp.
Drawing on the deep-rooted connection between sheepskin and humankind all through historical past, the gathering unfolds throughout two enchanting themes: La Prairie and Le Firmament. La Prairie evokes a dreamy meadow stuffed with geometric blooms and bows, whereas Le Firmament explores the heavens, the celestial Western stars, illustrated with beads and swirling paisley patterns. At its coronary heart of this new assortment are two sculptural shearling seats, upholstered totally in Spanish merino. These items are a nod to fantastical creations all through time, together with the experimental genius of late Italian designer Gaetano Pesce.
Yves Salomon Editions
Queyras Laora
Tara Bernerd’s Disrupting Structure Collaboration With Frette and Silhouette for Medea 1905
With a touch of Deco and a contact of Modernism, British designer Tara Bernerd is gearing as much as make a splash at Milan Design Week with not one however two collaborations. Her up to date posh imaginative and prescient will come to life via a landmark collaboration with storied linens agency Frette and luxurious furnishings agency Medea 1905. Drawing inspiration from a wealthy collision of architectural eras, the capsule assortment with Frette options luxurious cashmere and wool throws and cushions that really feel as versatile as they’re timeless. “I needed to create versatile items that might remodel an area — whether or not a New York residence, a Cotswold cottage, or a seashore home in Bali,” stated Bernerd, who is understood for her interiors initiatives inside luxurious accommodations just like the 4 Seasons Fort Lauderdale and the Hari, Hong Kong.
Tara Bernerd collaboration with Frette.
Kate Martin
Born out of a friendship between Bernerd and Frette chief government officer Filippo Arnaboldi, the mission is a testomony to their shared perception in design’s capacity to form temper and ambiance. “You may change the complete really feel of a room with a throw or a set of cushions,” enthused Bernerd. The gathering “Silhouette” for Medea 1905 grew from her relationship with family-owned Brianza cabinetmakers Luigi and Andrea Tagliabue. Collectively, they’ve crafted a capsule assortment outlined by noble supplies like walnut and oak, vintage brass accents, fluted glass and surfaces of onyx and marble. Each collections will debut at Frette’s Through Manzoni showroom throughout Milan Design Week and will probably be showcased on the Fiera Milano throughout Salone del Cell 2025.
Tara Bernerd x Media 1905
Courtesy of Tara Bernerd
Faye Toogood for Noritake
To mark its a hundred and twentieth anniversary final 12 months, Japanese tableware model Noritake launched Noritake Design Assortment, a collaborative initiative led by its chief artistic director Yuichiro Hori, consisting of a sequence of initiatives with a world roster of up to date designers, beginning with Yabu Pushelberg. At Milan Design Week, the Japanese home will push the envelope even additional. On the Alcova showcase within the city of Varedo, the corporate will unveil its newest assortment with British designer Faye Toogood, who made waves final 12 months along with her Squash assortment for Poltrona Frau.
Including her distinct folk-meets-modernist contact, Toogood will unveil Rose, a limited-edition sequence impressed by archival designs, whereas additionally curating the exhibition house to carry Noritake’s conventional craftsmanship into dialogue with fashionable imaginative and prescient.
Faye Toogood
Courtesy of Toogood
Luca Nichetto and JoAnn Tan for Sweden’s Bolon
JoAnn Tan, the set up artist recognized for her awe-inspiring animal scenes has teamed up with famed Sweden-Venice-based multidisciplinary designer Luca Nichetto. Titled “Exodus” and set in opposition to the backdrop of Tan’s new Milan atelier on Viale Lombardia 56, the 2 are set to unveil a placing show of anthropomorphic creatures for Swedish flooring model Bolon.
Bolon focuses on climate-neutral flooring and rugs and is headquartered in Ulricehamn, Sweden. Below the management of sisters Annica and Marie Eklund, the third-generation household enterprise has remodeled from a conventional weaving mill into a world design model that now boasts purchasers like Armani, Google, 4 Seasons Accommodations and Chanel.
Sisters Marie and Annica Eklund, the third-generation leaders behind the family-owned model, say the approaching collectively of artistic minds “mix daring innovation and craftsmanship to discover the chances of Bolon’s materials, reworking it into one thing unexpectedly extraordinary.”
A show by Luca Nichetto and JoAnn Tan for Sweden’s Bolon.
Pierre Frey Debuts Its Furnishings Assortment in Milan
After showcasing its first furnishings assortment throughout Paris Design Week in January, historic French residence textiles maker Pierre Frey is able to present Milan that it’s severe about rising this newest side of its enterprise. Throughout Milan Design Week, it would launch Marta with American-born designer and sculptor Gregory Beson, who launched his studio observe in 2018 in New York Metropolis.
The furnishings assortment, which explores the interplay between wooden and fabric, is a diverse combine that consists of poufs, chairs and benches, and will probably be unveiled on the Pierre Frey showroom on Through Fatebene Fratelli 3.
Pierre Frey’s collaboration with American-born designer and sculptor Gregory Beson.
Courtesy of Pierre Frey
Davide Dolcini Tribute to Bruno Munari x Amini
Italian artist and graphic designer Bruno Munari is having a second proper now. In 1925, on the age of 18, he got here to Milan to work along with his uncle and have become a proponent of the Futurist motion led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Precisely 100 years later, designer and wooden specialist David Dolcini and Somaglia, Italy-based Amini Carpets will unveil a tribute to his life. Named “A Journey Into Fantasy”, the exhibit explores the work of the up to date aesthete. For Dolcini, whose studio collaborates with corporations like Luceplan, Porada, Bric’s and Panasonic, Munari’s legacy has been a information all through his personal profession. “I’ve realized from his books, his initiatives, and his capacity to mix rigor with freedom. Because of this, my method to the exhibition setup follows his technique, characterised by lightness and a contact of irony,” he stated.
Two rug collections will probably be staged contained in the Amini showroom on Through Borgogna 7, and can illustrate Munari’s playful spirit: Viaggio nella Fantasia (Journey Into Fantasy) and Macchine Inutili (Ineffective Machines).
