Salone del Mobile is almost upon us, returning for 2026 from 21-26 April when the fair will is back to the Rho fairgrounds and at locations across the city for Fuorisalone and Milan Design Week.
For all the practical information about next year's fair, read on. See also the Wallpaper* team's coverage from Salone Del Mobile 2025. Looking to refuel? See our map of the best pizza in Milan.
Salone del Mobile 2026: what's new
Salone del Mobile 2026 will embrace collectible design with Salone Raritas, a new initiative that will open the fair to limited-edition design and high-end creative manufacturing. The new platform is curated by Annalisa Rosso, Editorial Director and Cultural Events Advisor of Salone del Mobile, and designed by Formafantasma. Conceiving Salone Raritas as a lantern, designers Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi imagined a modular space that 'puts light and rhythm at the service of the pieces.’
Also debuting in 2026 is a new contract focus for the fair, led by OMA. Salone Contract 2027 will mark the fair's first foray into the field of contract furniture offering an opportunity to dissect it and create new connection for companies participating in Salone del Mobile.
Since 2022, on its 60th anniversary, the fair editions expanded its scope with a rich programme focused on creativity and innovation and a special attention to sustainability. Collaborators of Salone Del Mobile in recent years have included Formafantasma, architect Sou Fujimoto, and photographer Hélène Binet. Recent highlights have also included immersive installation by creative greats including David Lynch and Robert Wilson.
How to attend Salone del Mobile: tickets, timings and locations
The ‘Bosco di Forestami’ installation greeting visitors to Supersalone 2021
Since 2005, Salone del Mobile has taken place in the Fuksas-designed Rho fairground, about 15km from Milan. Its 753,000 sq m make it the largest fairground in Europe, and its design is defined by the airy structure connecting the pavilions.
How to get to Salone del Mobile
We recommend reaching Salone del Mobile by public transport to avoid the traffic on arrival and departure. M1 (the red metro line) connects the Rho-Fieramilano station with several locations across the city (including Porta Venezia and Duomo). The journey takes about 25 minutes and you're bound to meet other design enthusiasts on board for dynamic conversation.
Salone del Mobile tickets
The fair is open to architects, press design buyers and other professionals. Visitors can register in advance through the Salone del Mobile for an e-ticket. On Friday 10 September, the fair will also be accessible by the general public, with tickets on sale through the Salone del Mobile website. Opening hours are Sunday to Thursday, 10AM to 7PM, Friday 10AM to 4PM.
Fuorisalone: where to go in the city during Milan Design Week
Super Pratone by Gufram, Piazza San Fedele.
Once you've had your full immersion into the furniture world of the fairgrounds, you'll want to take a stroll through the city. Fuorisalone showcases the latest contemporary design throughout the city's central neighbourhoods. This is the most exciting time to be in Milan: historical palazzos open their eclectic interiors to the work of emerging design talent, showrooms showcase the latest launches and everywhere you turn, there is a promise of discovery (and exciting encounters).
Keep an eye on wallpaper.com for our favourite Milan Design Week spots.
Brera
Possibly the most picturesque neighbourhood of Milan, its cobbled streets include small galleries and some of the best showrooms in the city. Start on Via Solferino for furniture showrooms by the likes of Boffi and Salvatori, and the design gallery of Dimorestudio.
Popular venues in the area include La Pelota on Via Palermo (which is regularly the backdrop to immersive displays by Hermès) and Mediateca Santa Teresa on Moscova (which was the home of Wallpaper* Handmade between 2017-18). Also in the area is Spazio Orso (Via dell’Orso 16), where ECAL traditionally presents its students’ and graduates’ work.
Furniture showroom hopping
Living Divani Gallery
Fuorisalone is a great opportunity for a full immersion into the best Italian furniture showrooms (many of which are practically located in a small area within the city centre). Head to via Durini to discover Cassina, B&B Italia, Porro, Technogym, Gallotti & Radice and Natuzzi, then hop onto nearby Corso Monforte to discover Flos, Artemide, Danese, Nemo, De Padova and Living Divani.
Tucked in a courtyard behind the Flos showroom is Danish textile authority Kvadrat, showcasing its latest design collaborations in the space. Also on Corso Monforte is Living Divani Gallery, part showroom and part exhibition space, designed by Piero Lissoni, and the new showroom of outdoor furniture brand Emu.
Molteni & C’s sprawling central Milan home takes over a seven-floor building on Via Manzoni, with interiors conceived by Vincent Van Duysen as if it were the home of an art and design collector – an experience that unfolds over the building's more than 3,000 sq m.
Don’t miss Armani Casa (Corso Venezia 14) Visionnaire (Piazza Cavour 3), Poliform (Piazza Cavour 2), and Baxter (Largo Augusto 1), the latter presenting its refined collections through the immersive ‘Baxter Cinema’.
Poltrona Frau’s showroom is among the most scenic in the city, located in a frescoed building (Via Manzoni 30) forming the backdrop for the Italian company’s latest collections.
Cassina showroom in Milan, featuring ‘Soriana’ by Afra & Tobia Scarpa.
Once you’ve had your fix of Italian furniture, head to nearby Villa Necchi for a taste of old Milan, or venture into Quadrilatero della Moda (the city’s fashion district), home to showrooms that include Henge (Via della Spiga 34) and Giorgetti’s 4-floor palazzo (Via della Spiga 31), featuring a new showroom concept titled The Place and demonstrating the company’s collections in a sophisticated setting.
Among the most recent openings is Cappellini, whose new showroom (via Borgogna 8) will become the inventive brand's new home in Milan and showcase its latest collections as well as contemporary classics.
Alcova
Agglomerati by Australian furniture maker Fred Ganim at Alcova.
Alcova 2026 will take over the Baggio Military Hospital as well as Franco Albini's Rationalist Villa Pestarini.
Curators Joseph Grima and Valentina Ciuffi launched group show Alcova in 2019. Every year since, the project has taken over a dilapidated building somewhere in (our outside) Milan, and with very little intervention the pair staged an exhibition that takes people out of their comfort zone and into unexpected territories. The raw spaces serve as backdrop to the exhibitions allow visitors to discover design with a novel approach, and the exhibitions feature an array of independent talent, not to be missed.
Milan Design galleries to know
Bethan Laura Wood at Nilufar Depot.
The design galleries in Milan come alive during Fuorisalone with specially commissioned projects, objects and installations not to be missed.
Start with design destination Nilufar (Via della Spiga, 32), Nina Yashar’s gallery presenting the most exciting names in collectible design (from the classics, like Gio Ponti and BBPR to Martino Gamper and India Mahdavi). The gallery’s second outpost, Nilufar Depot, opened in 2015 in an industrial space just outside of the city’s centre (Via Lancetti 34) that used to hold Yashar’s archives and has now been transformed into an exciting exhibition space.
‘Frosted Split Desk’ and ‘Frosted Ombré Glass Chair’ by Germans Ermics at Rossana Orlandi
Rossana Orlandi’s gallery (Via Matteo Bandello, 14) is a life-sized cabinet of curiosities that will offer a sense of discovery to any design journey, with a mix of emerging talent and independent brands showcased across its spaces. Galleria Luisa Delle Piane (Via Giuseppe Giusti, 24) presents imaginative furniture and objects by the likes of Andrea Branzi, Maddalena Casadei and Franco Albini e Franca Helg.
Other spaces to look out for include Brera gallery Dilmos, whose space is located inside a Vico Magistretti-designed building (Via San Marco, 1).
Newcomer Oxilia Gallery (via Nino Oxilia 9) was founded in 2022 by Alessandro Mensi and long-term Wallpaper* collaborator Frederik De Wachter.
Milanese cultural institutions
The beauty of design in Milan is that it's often combined with art, architecture and Milanese cultural institutions. Some of the most important cultural locations in the city are, more often than not, part of Fuorisalone's programming. These include the Triennale (Viale Emilio Alemagna 6) with its recently inaugurated design museum.
Elsewhere is Dropcity: set within the arches of the city’s Stazione Centrale, the Andrea Caputo-designed centre for design and architecture research comes to life during Milan Design Week, when over 10 studios (from ceramics and textiles to woodworking, model making, and 3D production) will be open to the public.
Other key locations include the ADI Design Museum (Piazza Compasso d'Oro 1, a new space celebrating the history of the Compasso D'Oro design prize).
Michael Anastassiades’ solo exhibition ‘Cheerfully Optimistic About the Future’ at ICA Milano, installation view
Among the art venues (whose exhibition programme usually ties in with the design crowd descending on Milan) are Pirelli HangarBicocca (Via Chiese 2), and Fondazione Prada (Largo Isacco 2), with its ever-growing OMA-designed complex, while not far is Milan’s ICA (Via Orobia 26), which this year plays host to artist Dozie Kanu’s spatial response to the work of the late artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz, evoking the work of Jean Cocteau.