Welcome to Milan Design Week 2026
Milan, we're back! From 20-26 April our team is taking on the biggest design event of the year
This year, Salone del Mobile will embrace collectible design with Salone Raritas, an initiative that will open the fair to limited-edition design and high-end creative manufacturing, and a new contract focus led by OMA.
Meanwhile, back in the city our kiosk is up and running (20-24 April) to present the new Wallpaper* Travel Guides, and we will be traveling across the city to discover design launches, new openings, installations and exhibitions that take over historical palazzos, courtyards and private apartments, including an array of new locations that have never been seen at Milan Design Week before.
Don't forget to fuel up: for the occasion, we put together a map of the best coffee in Milan according to the industry's leading creatives.
To make it easier for you to navigate, we've pinned a few of our highlights for what to see at Milan Design Week 2026 on this map below.
Meet the editors
Rosa Bertoli was born in Udine, Italy, and now lives in London. At Wallpaper*, she oversees design content as well as special editorial projects.
Olly Mason is the Head of Interiors at Wallpaper*. Over the past decade working for us, she has helped shape the interiors direction of the brand and guide the creation of Wallpaper’s interiors philosophy.
Ali Morris is a UK-based editor, writer and creative consultant specialising in design, interiors and architecture. In her 16 years as a design writer, Ali has travelled the world, crafting articles about creative projects, products, places and people.
With contributions from: Anna Fixsen, Charlotte Gunn, Anna Solomon, Ellie Stathaki
Touch down in Milan!
The team has landed in Milan and the finishing touches are being put on our Wallpaper* kiosk which will sell the relaunched Wallpaper* Travel Guides from Monday-Friday, 10-7pm.
We also have a fun treasure hunt running throughout the week. Starting Monday, if you collect four free asterisk pin badges from different locations around Milan, you can show them at the kiosk to receive a free guide. The locations are:
Pasticceria Cucchi
10 Corso Como
Oslo Made In Heaven
Frab's Magazines
The Wallpaper* kiosk is at Via Tivoli, corner Via Rivoli
A morning at the Travel Guides kiosk
The design crowd gathered for the opening of our Travel Guides kiosk this morning. Here's Design Director, Rosa Bertoli, and long-time contributor Nick Vinson ready to make the first sale.
Writer Charlotte Gunn
The Wallpaper* Kiosk is at Via Tivoli, corner Via Rivoli
An exclusive Alcova preview with the founders
Milan design week is back, and to kick off the week Wallpaper* visited one of the hottest tickets in town, @alcova.milano. A platform for emerging designers, Alcova has since 2018 set up shop in unlikely yet architecturally significant locations in Milan. This year, the exhibition returns to one of it's former locations, Baggio military hospital – a large, former military hospital and complex that has since been largely reclaimed by nature. The military hospital is joined by a second site this year – Villa Pestarini, the rationalist masterpiece by Franco Albini..
Speaking to co-founders Valentina Ciuffi and Joseph Grima, Wallpaper* got an exclusive preview at the location and the projects on show, which all investigate the future possibilities of design – an endeavour largely about ‘making beautiful things but with a good spirit’.
Inside Nike Air_Lab at Dropcity
At Dropcity, Nike has taken over five disused railway tunnels to create Air_Lab: an exploration of air as a design material.
Throughout the space, visitors can explore the Nike Air archives, attend workshops that spotlight air-driven design processes and see how Nike is innovating with new garments for extreme conditions. Read more about Air_Lab
Writer: Charlotte Gunn
Nike Air_Lab, Via Sammartini 72, 20125, Milan
Can you spot our Fiats around the city?
To mark the return of the beloved Wallpaper* Travel Guides, we've partnered with Fiat to dress four Topolino cars up to match the books. If you see them around Milan this week, take a picture and tag us on Instagram @wallpapermag
Writer Charlotte Gunn
Alcova takes over two of Milan’s most extraordinary venues
Design platform Alcova stages its annual showcase across two remarkable sites in Milan. First, Villa Pestarini – the only private residence designed by Franco Albini – is an essential pilgrimage for fans of Italian modernism. Alcova animates it with a series of interventions, including Patricia Urquiola’s installation for Haworth and Cassina and a debut furniture collection by Boccamonte celebrating architect Luisa Castiglioni.
At the Baggio Military Hospital, large-scale, site-specific works fill hangars, courtyards and a newly accessible church. The latter hosts an immersive installation by Leo Lague and Versa exploring design and spirituality, and is one to seek out.
The venues do a lot of the heavy lifting – especially the Baggio Military Hospital, whose vast, abandoned scale and slightly haunted atmosphere make it well worth the detour. What Alcova does so well, though, is the other half – staging thoughtful, rather than merely decorative, engagement. Read more about the new locations in Milan
Writer Anna Solomon
Villa Pestarini, Via Mogadiscio 2/4, 20146 Milan
Baggio Military Hospital, Via Giovanni Labus 10, 20147 Milan
Discover the launch of Kelly Wearstler's H&M Home collection
At Palazzo Acerbi for the launch of Kelly Wearstler H&M Home, with a multisensory set design by Studio Boum.
Palazzo Acerbi hasn't been seen before (one of the reasons Kelly Wearstler chose it for the launch), the details are insane throughout- make sure you look up AND down!
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Corso di Porta Romana, 3, 20122 Milano MI, Italy
Yinka Ilori injects joy into Veuve Clicquot’s world
For Milan Design Week, Veuve Clicquot has transposed its vibrant yellow branding into a limited-edition drinks accessories collection, developed with Yinka Ilori. The British-Nigerian designer draws on his heritage to create a world of optimistic motifs – hands cradling the sun, celestial forms, natural symbols. The calabash-inspired Sun Totems are the standout, grounding the collection in something more meaningful than surface-level exuberance (the fruit is traditionally used as a drinking vessel in West Africa), while upcycled materials and 3D knitting techniques give the collection a contemporary edge. Ilori was a smart choice: his instinct for colour maps naturally onto a brand whose identity is built around a joyful shade of yellow.
Writer Anna Solomon
Mediateca Santa Teresa, Via della Moscova 28, 20121 Milan
Come for the brews, stay for the views
Atop the majestic Torre Velasca, find some calm amidst the mayhem of Milan Design Week in Cromo's secret tea house. The structure is inspired by the Vietnamese Rong House which were traditionally built as ceremonial structures. A collaboration with Milan-based designer Bogdan Martoiu, the teahouse is designed from reflective utilitarian materials which mirror its surroundings. Don't leave without a cup of matcha on the roof, taking in views of the city.
Writer Charlotte Gunn
Cromo Tea House, Piazza Velasca, 3/5, 20122 Milan
Discover Kvadrat's tribute to Frans Dijkmeijer
Frans Dijkmeijer- Silent Pioneer by Kvadrat at Triennale is a touching tribute to the late textile designer featuring prototypes and personal collections.
The exhibition also features contemporary artworks that respond to Dijkmeijer’s work and personal passions, including this aural video installation by Francesco Tosini, titled 'to see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower'. Read more about the wonderful world of Frans Dijkmeijer here
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Viale Emilio Alemagna, 6, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
Loro Piana's ode to plaid
Loro Piana presents 'STUDIES CHAPTER I: ON THE PLAID' located on Via Moscova 33. Check out our visual gallery above to see the ode to plaid within interiors.
Writer Olly Mason
Via della Moscova 33, 20121 Milano, Italy
Step inside Dimoregallery's new location
Dimoregallery opens its new location on Via San Vittore al Teatro, just steps from Piazza degli Affari, in the historic and cultural heart of Milan. Over two floors within a building that formerly housed a bank, and still retains its original vault, is now reinterpreted as a device for depth and atmosphere.
Writer Olly Mason
Via San Vittore al Teatro
Aesop illuminates with first ever table lamp
Aesop marks its first-ever foray into artificial lighting with the launch of Aposē, a beautifully handcrafted, limited edition table lamp. The piece is presented in an informative and highly atmospheric bespoke installation in Brera, designed by Australian architect and founder of March Studio, Rodney Eggleston. Set in the Santa Maria del Carmine church cloister, the space is made using circular construction methods and building site components. A series of videos tells the story of the product’s making. At the end of the video sequence, experienced in immersive, moody lighting, Aposē is seen alongside two further potential future iterations of the design - a ceiling and a floor light. Aesop’s, Marianne Lardilleux, told me: ‘The ‘Factory of Light’ installation is designed as a manifesto: a tribute to the creative process as much as the result. We wanted to expose the alchemy of artisanal savoir-faire, proving that the beauty of a piece like Aposē lies in the journey of its making. Its making is showcased both tangibly—through projections showing the artisans at work—and poetically, through the architecture, with interplay of light, textures, and scents.’
Writer Ellie Stathaki
Santa Maria del Carmine, Piazza del Carmine, 2, 20121 Milano MI,
Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby at Triennale Milano
‘Our work emerges gradually through studies of folded structures, movement, space, distortion, time and scale,’ reads a quote from Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby at the entrance of their exhibition ‘alphabet’ at Triennale Milano. The display of prototypes shows the breadth of the studio’s output and the precision with which they conceive all of their designs through time.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Triennale Milano, Viale Emilio Alemagna, 6, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
Bang & Olufsen take audio outdoors
As part of a long-term collaboration with Italian natural stone house Antolini, Bang & Olufsen make their first foray into outdoor speakers. Due for release in autumn, the fully customisable speakers are in the final stages of being all-weather tested, ensuring they stay true to the brand's cradle to cradle ethos.
Writer Charlotte Gunn
Piazza Fontana &, Via S. Clemente, 20122 Milano MI, Italy
A killa’ villa
I just touched down from my New York to Milan red eye but HAD to make a beeline for Alcova’s presentation at Villa Pestarini, jet lag be damned! The building was designed in the rationalist style by Franco Albini in 1939, and has never been open to the public until now. The house is a gorgeous exercise in light, transparency and geometry, and the works presented inside pay homage to those principals. Patricia Urquiola’s collab with Haworth and Cassina is an obvious showstopper, but —as a house museum obsessive— I became obsessed with the vintage appliances, putty pink accents and wavy glass cabinets that hint at what it was like to inhabit a masterpiece.
Writer Anna Fixsen
Via Mogadiscio, 2/4, 20146 Milano MI, Italy
Inside a yurt space inspired by Uzbekistan’s Aral Sea
Craft rich and evocative, architect Kulapat Yantrasast’s show 'When Apricots Blossom' took inspiration from Uzbekistan’s Aral Sea. The region’s cultural legacy and its stories are told through a series of bread stamps he curated. The items are crafted by international designers in collaboration with local creatives. A specially constructed yurt space is the culmination of the exhibit and provides space for activities.
Writer Ellie Stathaki
Palazzo Citterio, Via Brera, 12. Milan, Italy
Build your own Eames House with this new kit
The Eameses’ legendary case study house is now a prefab architectural system that you can buy. The exhibition at Triennale Milano features a selection of parts, archival imagery and texts, as well as a few configurations and colour options to inspire you. ‘The actual plan is personal within the structural system’, Ray Eames wrote in a 1949 handwritten note. Read more about the new Eames House kit here.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Viale Emilio Alemagna, 6, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
CC-Tapis gives Fornasetti’s symbolism textile form
CC-Tapis translates the symbolic universe of Fornasetti into handcrafted rugs, a pairing that immediately makes sense – the Italian brand's trompe-l'oeil sensibility translates naturally to the woven format. Each piece merges illusion, irony and storytelling in refined textures; Himalayan wool, merino and silk are selected to enhance optical nuance. One of the most quietly convincing collaborations of the week.
Writer Anna Solomon
Piazza Santo Stefano 10, 20122 Milan
‘La Casa Magica’ is Nilufar’s twisted vision of home
‘La Casa Magica’, presented at Nilufar’s Via della Spiga gallery, is curated by Alcova co-founder Valentina Ciuffi with creative direction by her studio, Studio Vedèt, and set design by Space Caviar. In a separate part of the complex which houses the gallery, ‘Le Pied-à-Terre Cosmopolite’ unfolds: the space is immediately recognisable as domestic, yet becomes fantastical: a bed frame twists in chrome, a mirror fractures – as though splattered – across the wall. Familiar objects become strange, producing an atmosphere that does indeed have a touch of magic about it.
Writer Anna Solomon
Ciuffi is one of Milan’s busiest curators this week, with projects across Alcova, Delvis Unlimited and Nilufar Gallery, where ‘La Casa Magica’ can be found. The showcase brings together an international roster of designers to explore the home as a symbolic and ritual space. Moving beyond function, it considers domestic interiors as sites of belief, storytelling and protection, where objects act as contemporary talismans rooted in cultural archetypes. A particular highlight is the spellbinding Murano glass ‘Boswellia’ lamp by Christian Pellizzari.
Writer Ali Morris
Via della Spiga 32, 20121 Milan
Interni Venosta inhabits a postwar Borsani apartment
One of the best things about Milan Design Week is the unprecedented access to some of the city’s most incredible spaces. Interni Venosta has opened an apartment designed by Osvaldo Borsani between 1947 and 1948, never before seen by the public.
A sculptural room divider and bas-relief fireplace anchor the space, and Interni Venosta responds with brass and steel vases, lacquered wood and burl, and champagne-toned seating.
What's impressive is how the collection avoids blending in too submissively or asserting itself too loudly: where Borsani worked in warmth and craft, Interni Venosta introduces just enough cool contrast.
Writer Anna Solomon
Via Bigli 21, 20121 Milan
Head to the Wallpaper* Kiosk
Don't forget to stop by the Wallpaper* kiosk at Via Rivoli, corner Via Tivoli to pick up one of our relaunched travel guides to Milan, London, New York and Paris. Buy all four guides and get a free bag.
The Wallpaper* Kiosk is at Via Tivoli, corner Via Rivoli
A near-spiritual experience at Palazzo Isimbardi
Walking into 16th century Palazzo Isimbardi for Rimadesio’s ‘Becoming’ installation is a near-spiritual experience. For the company's 70th anniversary, Swiss audio-visual artist collective, Encore studio, has created an oversized light box that represents the sound and light of memories.
Using 100 layers of standard office grade electro chromic films, the artists took lighting installations out of their usual dark boxes and placed them under the blue Milanese sky.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Palazzo Isimbardi, Corso Monforte 35
Step into the design world of Lella and Massimo Vignelli
Lella and Massimo Vignelli, inseparable in life and work, were among the leading figures of twentieth-century design and graphic communication. Active from the 1950s onward, they worked for more than half a century, developing a rigorous and immediately recognisable visual language applied across graphic design, product design, furniture, and communication.
Writer Olly Mason
Triennale Milano, Viale Emilio Alemagna, 6, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
A family of furniture
Unifor and Herzog and de Meuron worked on a family of office furniture - looking elegant and clad in cork leather. Set in the Herzog and de Meuron designed Fondazione Feltrinelli building where the Unifor showroom is. There's even a ping pong table.
Writer Ellie Stathaki
Viale Pasubio, 5, 20154 Milano MI, Italy
Theatrics meets furniture
Last night Salone del Mobile invited us to Teatro La Scala: we had dinner on stage, among sets and lighting equipment, and the atmosphere was magical. In her welcome speech, Salone del Mobile President Maria Porro (who had a theatre background before moving to furniture) invited us to look up, to the rigging loft: ‘it’s a fantastic work of architecture, design, craftsmanship and respect for tradition.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
V. Filodrammatici, 2, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
A waterfall in Milan
Swiss architecture and design studio atelier oï created a waterfall for Geberit, to demonstrate how water flow can connect design and function. The installation represents the bathroom company's approach to water from a technical and innovation perspective, to create precise function behind an aesthetically convincing form. For the installation, 300 stainless-steel springs are stretched across the space, from which water droplets glide on defined paths, creating tension between precision and freedom.
Rosa Bertoli
Opificio 31, Via Tortona 31, 20144 Milan, Italy
Polish Modernism 16 floors up
Back at Torre Velasca, the Visteria Foundation and curators Federica Sala and Anna Maga stage 'Polish Modernism: a struggle for beauty', an overview of the ways modernism has developed throughout Polish Design history and connecting old and contemporary works to demonstrate the continuous inspiration of the movement for the country’s creatives.
Rosa Bertoli
Torre Velasca, Piazza Velasca, 3/5, 20122 Milano MI, Italy
Energy raising with Belmond x LaDoubleJ
We took a welcome break atop the ‘star quarters’ of LaDoubleJ, where the terrace is transformed into a Tuscan garden to celebrate the brand’s upcoming collaboration with hoteliers Belmond. Villa San Michele, a Belmond Hotel, Florence, is set to reopen next week following a refurbishment and has partnered with the Italian label on a first-of-its-kind project, creating custom-designed LaDoubleJ spaces alongside a curated programme of ‘energy-raising’ wellness experiences, from breathwork and yoga to sound healing.
During the sunset event, guests sipped lavender and butterfly pea tea Tom Collins while a healer moved through the space performing smudging — a ritual that involves burning sage or palo santo to cleanse the space and those within it.
Writer Ali Morris
Via Vigevano 18, Milan 20144
Toogood goes to town with tone and texture at Tacchhini
At Tacchini, British designer Faye Toogood plundered the brand’s material archives to create a series of nine spaces, each defined by a distinct tonal palette – from deep, restorative greens to calming stone. In true Toogood fashion, the installation also goes to town with texture – an installation that has to be touched, as much as it is seen, inviting visitors to engage with the surfaces, finishes and tactility.
Writer Ali Morris
Largo Treves 5, 20121 Milan
Aperitivo and Finnish flowers with Marimekko
In a canny design week move, Finnish brand Marimekko has taken over the garden courtyard and restaurant at the Hosteria Grand Hotel, renaming it for the week ‘Osteria Fiori di Marimekko’. Here guests can enjoy a welcome aperitivo served in the brand’s ceramics by staff dressed in its newest floral designs, ‘Kukasta Kukkaan’ by Erja Hirvi. This is brand immersion at its finest.
Writer Ali Morris
Via Ascanio Sforza 75, 20141 Milan
Range Rover transports us to the River Tay in Scotland
Range Rover is back in Milan this year with an equally ambitious installation, setting out the staggering level of detail behind the brand’s bespoke offering. Here, the marque has partnered with spatial designer Robert Storey of Storey Studio — whose previous collaborators include Loro Piana and Hermès — to create a multi-sensory, sequenced experience.
It begins with a film directed by Paris-based Argentinian filmmaker Felipe Sanguinetti, and continues with illustrations by four artists, translated into intricate embroidery by the brand’s in-house team. The experience culminates in the reveal of the ‘Pearl of Tay’, a one-of-a-kind Range Rover Bespoke commission inspired by the freshwater pearl of Scotland’s River Tay.
Conceived as a landscape, the space is flanked by mirrored vitrines housing 14 objects curated by Wallpaper*’s own Hugo Macdonald of Bard.
Writer Ali Morris
Galleria Meravigli, Via Meravigli 5, 20123 Milan
Off to the races
The 64th edition of the Salone del Mobile furniture fair just kicked off at Fiera Milano Rho on the outskirts of the city. Apart from the huge offering of international exhibitors, this year has tons in store, including the biannual kitchen exhibition, Eurocucina, and for the first time, a collectible design showcase, Salone Raritas. I’m just about to dive in — please send a spritz in case of emergency!
Writer Anna Fixsen
Fiera Milano Rho
New designs inspired by nature at Palazzo Molteni
Palazzo Molteni features all of the company’s new designs by Christophe Delcourt, Gam Fratesi, Cristian Mohaded , Vincent van Duysen, Studio Klass and Naoto Fukasawa. This year’s collection is defined by textured materials and colours referencing nature.
The top floor hosts the Molteni Gallery, dedicated to temporary art exhibition. This week, the space features an exhibition of sculptures by Michele De Lucchi. Titled ‘The Architect’s Relief’, the exhibition is dedicated to sculptures made of wood sewn with metal wire and they are made by the architect as a way to escape from the scale and constrictions of the structural work. The sculptures are accompanied by drawings and sketches.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Via Alessandro Manzoni, 9, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
Inside a secret garden
At Garden Senato, Molteni worked with Elisa Ossino to create a hidden garden in the heart of the city. Titled ‘Responsive Nature’, the installation comprises six gardens that frame the companies outdoor design collections, interacting with foliage, flowers, water and architecture.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Via Senato, 14, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
‘Gucci Memoria’ sees Demna reimagine the house’s 105-year history as a series of tapestries
Gucci creative director Demna marks his first Milan Design Week with a playful presentation at Chiostri di San Simpliciano, seeing the Georgian designer reimagine the Italian house’s 105-year history through a series of Renaissance-inspired tapestries (he even makes a cameo in the final tableau, clad in a leather jacket and baseball cap). Also in the 15th-century cloisters are a series of Gucci-branded vending machines – drinks dispensed have names like ‘Fashion Icon’ and ‘Drama Queen’ – while a bucolic garden of wildflowers recalls the house’s signature Flora motif.
‘Gucci’s history in the 105 years since it was founded is filled with ups and downs. It has such a colourful past with lot of stories to tell,’ Demna tells Wallpaper*. ‘This being my first Fuorisalone, I wanted to tell the entire story of the house from the beginning, so we made these tapestries that take inspiration from the style of Botticelli to tell Gucci’s story. You see all the different eras of Gucci represented in these scenes, either literally or symbolically. The good times, the bad times, the drama; and the scenes are super elaborate, there are lots of symbolic details that tie back to Gucci’s codes.’
Writer Jack Moss
Gucci Memoria’ is open to the public from 21 to 26 April 2026 at the Chiostri di San Simpliciano, Piazza Paolo VI, 6, Milan. Registration is available on Gucci.com
At Rossana Orlandi, 70 makers rethink the door
RoCollectible, Galleria Rossana Orlandi’s annual showcase, takes the door – threshold, boundary, passage, barrier, however you see it – as its conceptual starting point. Over 70 designers, artists and architects respond, curated by Rossana Orlandi and her daughter, Nicoletta Brugnoni.
It’s a richer premise than it first appears, and the breadth of contributors prevents repetition. Highlights include Roberto Sironi’s ‘Future Memories’, produced with Japanese carpentry workshop Sansui, using reclaimed timber from traditional kominka houses. Other interpretations, such as Atelier L’Inconnu’s sculptural rattan works, are more oblique – but Orlandi’s strength is allowing work to breathe without over-explanation.
Writer Anna Solomon
Via Matteo Bandello 14, 20123 Milan
A rugged adventure in ceramic with Hannes Peer
‘Terrain’, designed by architect Hannes Peer in conversation with Officine Saffi Lab, presents as a large-scale ceramic high relief. Aggregated tiles of varying shapes and glazes – soft blues, reds, and sand – form a meticulous yet uneven surface, with the reverse revealing a more fragmented, exposed composition. A must if you find yourself in Zona Sarpi.
Writer: Gabriel Annouka
Fondazione Officine Saffi, Via Giovanni Battista Niccolini 35a, Milan
Design meets technology at Istituto Marangoni Milano Design
At Istituto Marangoni Milano Design, ‘Design Awakens’ explores objects that perceive, spaces that respond, and systems that adapt to human presence. Across the Via Cerva hub, installations in collaboration with brands such as Alessi, Poltrona Frau, Cappellini and Jaipur Rugs result in a vision of design that shifts from static objects to evolving relationships between people, technology, and space.
Writer: Rosie Cave
Via Cerva 24, 20122 Milano
The Wallpaper* Milan Treasure Hunt
Across four of our favourite Milan locations – all referenced in our new Travel Guides – we have placed unique Wallpaper* pin badges. Move from one stop to the next, collect each badge, and complete the set.
Once you have them all, return to the Wallpaper* Kiosk, at Via Tivoli, corner Via Rivoli, to receive a free copy of one of our brand new travel guides.
The locations:
(1) Frab's bookshop (@frabs_magazines)- Via Giuseppe Sirtori, 11, 20129 Milano MI, Italy
(2) Cucchi x Marni (@pasticceria.cucchi) - Corso Genova, 1, Milan, Italy 20123
(3)10 Corso Como (@10corsocomo) - 20154 Milano MI, Italy
(4) Oslo Made in Heaven (@oslo_madeinheaven) - Via Filippo Corridoni, 1, 20122 Milano MI, Italy
(5) Wallpaper* Kiosk - Via Rivoli, corner Via Tivoli
Alcova's synergy between architecture and design
There is synergy between architecture and design at Alcova. Objects of Common Interest’s installation offers a fun spatial moment (the design studio founders Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis have strong architecture roots). ARP founder and Wallpaper* Architects' Directory alumna Argyro Pouliovali creates a family of tables using Thassos marble to striking effect. The Architectural Association school from London presents a never seen before show of objects in its exhibition, 'Coalescence'.
Writer Ellie Stathaki
Lavanderia Space L3, Centro Ospedaliero Militare, Milan
studioutte & De Troupe's installation is a nod to a private club
Camera Fissa is a project by studioutte and De Troupe, presented at the studioutte headquarters in Milan. For this exhibition, studioutte used the codes of a private club to create
full decor within a textile environment developed with Dedar. The title, 'Camera Fissa', references the cinematic term for a fixed camera: a pace experienced from a single, centred viewpoint, framed by curtains. Defined by a controlled decorative monumentality, the interior appears still yet dynamic, while architecture, light, and surfaces shift through inhabitation.
Writer Olly Mason
Via Volturno, 45, 20124 Milano MI, Italy
Five studios, five cities, one palazzo
Artemest returns to Palazzo Donizetti for the fourth edition of L’Appartamento, this year themed around Italian grandeur. Five international studios – Sasha Adler Design, March and White Design, Rockwell Group, Charlap Hyman & Herrero and Urijowan Interiors – each reinterpret a cultural capital: Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples and Palermo.
The framework brings clarity to a showcase that could otherwise feel unwieldy, while the diverse studios produce genuinely distinct atmospheres.
Writer Anna Solomon
Palazzo Donizetti, Via Gaetano Donizetti 48, 20122 Milan
High Baroque meets high street at Kelly Wearstler x H&M
After our design director attended the press preview yesterday, I couldn’t resist also popping in to see Kelly Wearstler’s furniture collaboration with H&M Home, which launches across 28 markets this week, presented within Palazzo Acerbi, a 17th-century Baroque palace long closed to the public. Chairs, tables, lamps and tabletop pieces sit beneath soaring frescoed ceilings – a juxtaposition that is both incongruous and inspired.
The modular constraint imposed on each piece is interesting, given Wearstler’s typically exuberant style, though anyone familiar with her Proper hotels will recognise her distinctive touch. H&M knows how to scale; Wearstler knows how to make a room feel alive, and here, the two click.
Writer Anna Solomon
Palazzo Acerbi, Corso di Porta Romana 3, Milan
6:AM fills a swimming pool with glass, sound and repetition
6:AM presents ‘Over and Over and Over and Over’ at Piscina Romano, a 1929 public swimming pool and one of Milan’s most striking venues. Repetition is the guiding principle: lamps form luminous sequences, glass modules build walls and singular objects scale into architectural systems.
New works include ‘Batch’ – blown glass cubes first created for Bottega Veneta’s S/S 2026 runway – alongside limited editions developed with Hannes Peer. A standout is Invernomuto’s sound installation ‘Triton’, which transforms data from a living ecosystem of amphibians in northern Italy into a sonic composition.
Writer Anna Solomon
Piscina Romano, Via Giuseppe Zanoia 2, 20131 Milan
60 books, 60 perspectives’: Jil Sander opens a ‘Reference Library’
For his first Milan Design Week at the house, Jil Sander creative director Simone Bellotti drafted Studioutte to create a ‘Reference Library’ in the brand’s Milanese headquarters. In the low-lit, hushed space – a recording of a voice shushing recalled tetchy librarians – 60 books sat on specially lit plinths, with guests handed white gloves on entry to peruse the various volumes. Each of the books had been selected by notable figures selected by Jil Sander and Apartamento (the magazine collaborated on the installation), from musician Lykke Li to Sofia Coppola, as well as figures from the world of design. ‘I chose for this library – improvised and temporary, as a gift to the city of Milan for just a few days,’ says Bellotti.
Writer Jack Moss
Reference Library runs until April 24, 2026 at Via Luca Beltrami 5, Milan
Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance’s lamps for Dior are inspired by haute couture silhouettes
Set amid an intricate scene constructed from woven bamboo comprising flowers, wheat, insects and bees, Dior chose Milan Design Week to present a new collection of lamps created by the French interior designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance. Spanning various sizes, the table lamps – some of which are portable – are constructed from either hand-blown Murano glass or Madame bamboo (the latter made by craftspeople in Kyoto, Japan) and are designed to evoke the house’s cannage quilting or haute couture silhouettes. Namely, the contours of the Corolle skirt, part of Christian Dior’s 1947 nipped-waist Bar suit, the contours of which would revolutionise mid-century fashion.
Writer Jack Moss
Palazzo Landriani, Via Borgonuovo, 25, 20121 Milan
Inside the new permanent Milan gallery The Line
New permanent Milan gallery The Line launches its activities with a show during design week. The exhibition brings together seven international architects and designers such as Marcio Kogan, AAU Anastas, Kengo Kuma and Bernard Khoury. The theme is 'survival' and the pieces on display, made in natural stone by Casone and atmospherically illuminated by PSLab, each have the same starting point - an identical block of African black stone.
Writer Ellie Stathaki
Via San Giovanni alla Paglia 6, Milan
Checkmate
An oversized chessboard brings Harry Nuriev's bold take to Milan. The immersive installation, titled 'Transformism', was created with perfumer Clive Christian (Nurriev's Crosby Studios also designed the brand's London flagship). The piece, which draws on the Clive Christian perfume bottle, is set on a terrace at Museo Bagatti Valsecchi.
Writer Ellie Stathaki
On the terrace at Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Via Gesù, 5, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
Rugs on the rooftop
On the rooftop of Convey, Ege Carpets presents its new collection ‘Common Ground’. Curated by creative director Gabriella Khalil, these new designs showcase Khalil’s bold style, with four new earth-toned designs (titled Ribbon, Imprint, Swell and Maze). Writer: Rosie Cave
Via San Senatore 10, 20122 Milan
Convey by Simple Flair returns for 2026
Following its debut last year, group show Convey took over a historic building at Via San Senatore 10 in Milan. Designed by Ottavio Cabiati and Luigi Brambilla in 1958, the six-floor space played host to a mix of international designers and brands curated by Milan-based creative studio Simple Flair.
Big enough to feel like a destination, but not so sprawling to overwhelm, we particularly enjoyed ‘Something Blue’ by London brand Completed Works, Joshi/Greene’s rail system and Chiara Lionello’s ceramic and aluminium vases.
Writer Ali Morris
Via San Senatore 10 Milan, Italy
Where Swiss design comes with coffee
Promoted by Pro Helvetia, Shared Matter brings together projects by emerging Swiss designers, spanning realised works and ongoing research. Thoughtful curation, striking type, and complimentary coffee at Spaziovento.
Writer: Gabriel Annouka
SPAZIOVENTO Via Pinamonte da Vimercate 4, 20121 Milano
A shop of luxury ‘essentials’
Magniberg and NM3 stage a residential installation that doubles as a shop of exclusive essentials – its title, ‘What Money Can Buy’ is the clearest statement of intent. It's a match made in heaven. Writer: Rosa Bertoli
Kvadrat Residential showroom, corso Monforte 15 (through the courtyard)
