 | | Photo: Delfino Sisto Legnani | | | Making room for innovation | | | Salone del Mobile is back as the star of the design calendar for its 62nd edition: the leading international event for the design industry will once again be held from 16th to 21st April at Milan’s Rho Fiera fairgrounds during Milan Design Week 2024. Organisers expect the fair to welcome around 2,000 exhibitors, in line with last year, and over 300,000 visitors from around the globe. With updated fairgrounds, a special focus on young designers at the anniversary edition of SaloneSatellite, EuroCucina — the biennial kitchen and bathroom exhibition – and a recently announced installation by legendary filmmaker David Lynch, this year's fair promises to shake things up with more innovation than ever.
What remains constant: the Salone's role as a laboratory of experimentation and cross-pollination, a place to meet face-to-face and create new business opportunities. Prototypes are presented and tested: bedrooms, living and dining areas, entrance corridors and outdoor spaces or tables and chairs set the scene for an inquisitional narrative that may start with a single item, but ultimately is about the big questions that shape our way of living and affect the world around us, and the people in it. We can't wait to hunt for answers with you next month. Read more
Claire Brodka – Managing Editor | | | Milan 2024: our fair and city guides are live! | | | Make the most of Milano with our curated fair and city guides – put together by our expert team of architects and designers to make sure you know exactly what to see and where to go. Find out more | |  | | Infographic by Davide Mottes | | | Salone del Mobile.Milano 2024: what’s new | | | This April edition is full of novelties: the new exhibition itineraries in partnership with Lombardini22, the biennial EuroCucina with FTK, Technology For the Kitchen and the International Bathroom Exhibition are back. The centerpieces will be three large installations, exhibitions, talks and tasting experiences related to the worlds of food & design. Find out more | |  | | FIOCCO: a modular sofa that invites you to relax and to sink into the softness Cosy and soft like a snowflake, the Fiocco sofa is simple and created with just a few elements designed to offer maximum comfort both in indoor and covered outdoor spaces. You'll find Fiocco and the new Flou collection at the Salone del Mobile.Milano Hall 11 A15 B12. Find out more | |  | | Photo: Lombardini22 | | | What to expect at the International Bathroom Exhibition 2024 | | In order to exhibit innovation, you must, first of all, be innovative. This also applies to the project for the new layout of the International Bathroom Exhibition at the 62nd edition of the Salone del Mobile.Milano, which will feature 180 exhibitors, 25% of them from other countries, arranged over 18,000 m2 in Pavilions 6-10.
To make visits more intuitive and easier to navigate, Lombardini22, a multidisciplinary studio that has been applying neuroscience to support the architectural design process since 2013, has reimagined the biennial event dedicated to bathrooms in a more 'urban', ring-shaped form. Read more | |  | | How do we reimagine personal space? The Lepal armchair is more than just a comfortable spot to lounge; it is a call to rethink rest as a quiet force of energy and inspiration. Meet Arper at Salone del Mobile to discover more. About Lepal | |  | | Photo: Lombardini22 | | | David Lynch’s dreamlike rooms at the Salone del Mobile.Milano | | | Interiors by David Lynch. A Thinking Room is the title of the installation designed by the renowned filmmaker of the subconscious David Lynch for the April edition of the Salone del Mobile.Milano. Inside Pavilions 5 and 7, two identical mirrored 'thinking rooms' have been conceived as symbolic doors to be entered in order to become immersed in the exhibition. Alessandro Ronchi interviewed the curator, Antonio Monda, for a heads-up on all the details and a glimpse behind the scenes. Read more | |  | | Pedrali solutions for fluid living spaces Italian company Pedrali will be at Salone del Mobile to present its latest collections. Experience open-air spaces as true extensions of living spaces with Pedrali new collections, bringing indoor comfort to the open air.
Come and discover #PedraliColoursofLightness : Hall 14 – Stand A23 B24. Find out more | |  | | Photo: Andrea Mariani | | Salone 2024: all the innovations you need to know about | | | Exhibition layouts based on the human-at-the-center philosophy. The Biennial EuroCucina and the International Bathroom Exhibition are back again. Three large installations plus exhibitions, talks and tasting experiences related to the world of Food & Design. And then a special event celebrating for the 25th anniversary of the SaloneSatellite, with its talents under 35, and much, much more. Read on | | | | | | | | |
