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Milan Design Week 2026: live updates from the Wallpaper* team
All the news from Salone Del Mobile and Milan Design Week (20-26 April 2026). Follow our team to Milan to discover the latest furniture launches, installations, collaborations, places to visit and more
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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A collection of Claude Lalanne mirrors just sold for $33.5 million, obliterating auction records
The Sotheby’s sale, drawn from the private collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg, marked the priciest design auction in US history. Experts call it a ‘watershed moment’
By Anna Fixsen Published
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Designer Nao Tamura on her new work taking flight at Milan Design Week
The Japanese, New York-based designer explores the ‘quiet rhythm in space’. She tells us about her latest designs, including works for Porro and Established & Sons, and what's next
By Danielle Demetriou Published
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The female creatives defining Milan Design Week 2026
For Milan Design Week 2026, we look at the work of nine leading female designers, curators and entrepreneurs who are defining creativity during design’s most exciting week of the year
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Fisher & Paykel brings a slice of the New Zealand forest to Salone del Mobile
With ‘Nature – Ritual’, an immersive booth presented as part of EuroCucina, the 93-year-old company proposes that chores can be less of a chore
By Anna Fixsen Published
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Inside RH Milan, a new landmark gallery in a neo-Renaissance palazzo
The American luxury brand now offers an immersive seven-level destination blending heritage and contemporary design – we took a tour
By Cristina Kiran Piotti Published
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Ikea reveals new furniture, teases a meatball lollipop and feeds design fans at Milan Design Week
The Swedish brand blends gastronomy and design in an immersive showcase, ‘Food for Thought’, at Spazio Maiocchi
By Cristina Kiran Piotti Published
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‘I had to build my own hotel to get a room in Milan’: Tom Dixon gets into beds with Vispring
The two British brands showcase the results of their collaboration with a takeover of the Mua Mua Hotel on Milan’s Mulino Estate
By Ifeoluwa Adedeji Published
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Alcova transforms a modernist villa and military hospital for Milan Design Week 2026
A previously unseen Albini armchair, an immersive chapel installation and the fact that these venues are rarely open to the public make them two of the most talked-about stops of the week
By Anna Solomon Published
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Axor introduces Axor Archivio, a ‘timeless’ new bathroom collection by Barber Osgerby
Bespoke Partnership
Blending archival references with contemporary precision, the German brand rethinks the bathroom through a language of quiet, considered design to be presented at Milan Design Week 2026
By Gavin Hastings Published
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Paper logs, paper chairs and eerie sculptural forms have landed at Issey Miyake in Milan
During Milan Design Week 2026, ‘The Paper Log: Shell and Core’, at the Issey Miyake Milan flagship store, explores the potential of paper as a three-dimensional material
By Danielle Demetriou Published
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Design adventures in glass mark 70 years of Gallotti & Radice at Milan Design Week 2026
As Gallotti & Radice turns 70, it reflects on its past, present and future as a glass pioneer, and showcases new work by female designers in Milan
By Laura May Todd Published
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12 designers draw on Uzbek craft for a mesmerising Milan Design Week show
Uzbekistan’s intricate traditional bread stamps, local flora and suzani tapestries inspire contemporary creations by international designers, on show now in Milan
By Marwa El Mubark Published
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Ai Weiwei redefines textile art with Rubelli at Milan Design Week 2026
An immersive installation in Milan weaves together history, activism and experimentation with precious threads; we speak with Ai Weiwei about his first foray into silk
By Cristina Kiran Piotti Published
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Kwangho Lee creates his first woven leather works at Bottega Veneta’s Milan store
‘It’s just like playing,’ says the designer of creating the Milan Design Week installation in situ, a twisting mass of leather cords, swooping around the store’s water feature like vines
By Ali Morris Published
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Bethan Laura Wood’s futuristic chandelier ‘plays with the rules’ for Baccarat
Debuting at Milan Design Week 2026, the designer’s collection for Baccarat, including a chandelier and candleholders, reinterprets a mid-19th-century classic for the contemporary space explorer
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Federica Biasi’s refined tribute for De Padova hugs the floor
Inspired by Japanese floor chairs, Federica Biasi’s quietly elegant ‘Edda’ armchair is among our Milan Design Week 2026 highlights
By Léa Teuscher Published
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Minotti's new table by Hannes Peer is a perfect combination of sculptural expression and precise engineering
The 'Blaine' table is among Minotti’s new launches at Salone del Mobile 2026
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Dive into USM’s bubbly breathing space at Milan Design Week 2026
Developed with experience designer Annabelle Schneider and Snøhetta, the installation invites design week visitors to slow down for a bit
By Adrian Madlener Published
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Lose yourself in Lina Ghotmeh’s pink maze within Milan’s Palazzo Litta courtyard
‘Metamorphosis in Motion’ for MoscaPartners is a labyrinth designed to slow visitors down during a busy Milan Design Week
By Ifeoluwa Adedeji Published
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First Fendi Design Prize goes to furniture inspired by the streets of Rome
A new generation of talent emerges as Fendi celebrates craftsmanship, heritage and the Eternal City through a forward-looking design prize – meet the winner
By Cristina Kiran Piotti Published
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Rethinking the bathroom experience with Villeroy & Boch Group’s multisensory installation in Milan
Bespoke Partnership
Milan Design Week will see the group bring together two of its power brands in an installation exploring the bathroom as a continuously evolving ecosystem
By Gavin Hastings Published
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Inside Bocci’s immersive Milan experiment in light
In Milan, David Alhadeff and Omer Arbel explore how light can shift perception and challenge expectations
By Ali Morris Published
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DesignSingapore Council presents ‘Prototype Island’ at Milan Design Week 2026
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Fifteen works by Singapore-based designers showcase the nation’s evolving approach to solving global challenges through design and technology
By Gavin Hastings Published
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Konstantin Grcic's latest lamp for Flos recreates the glow of the moon
'Nocturne' lamp by Konstantin Grcic for Flos is among our Salone del Mobile 2026 highlights, featured in May Wallpaper*, on sale now
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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What to see at Milan Design Week 2026
Your ultimate guide to the year's biggest design event
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Ambra Medda on her return to Milan: 'I love being part of a city that is changing and evolving at such speed'
After years in London, Ambra Medda returns to Milan with a new space, new ideas and a fresh perspective. For Milan Design Week, she speaks to Wallpaper* on charting a new path in the city and her design week exhibition, ‘Sail Away’
By Laura May Todd Published


