All the highlights from Salone Del Mobile 2025

A pilgrimage for design devotees, Salone del Mobile is the world’s most anticipated furniture fair that sees designers, architects, artists, and editors flock to Milan every year for some of the most trend-setting innovations. Held between April 8 and 13 this year, the Rho Fiera fairgrounds saw a melting pot of sensorial installations, disruptive and experimental collaborations that in some way, defined the future of design. With major artist-led brands debuting new collections and fashion houses jumping into homeware, the event offered a smorgasbord of creativity and inspiration for many, including some who might not necessarily be from the architectural world.

Below, catch some of our favourite highlights from design’s busiest week.

Loewe’s Teapot

The brand presented ‘Loewe Teapots’, a quirky and compelling showcase of 25 unique takes on the everyday vessel by 25 international artists. It also marked the final curation by former creative director Jonathan Anderson for the Spanish design house. Some teapots stretched wide, others stood tall and slender; some were raw and unglazed, while others were wrapped in leather, paint, and colour. Our favourite? A frosty, swirl-like clay teapot by Japanese ceramist Takayuki Sakiyama.

6:AM Glassworks

Ideas at Salone this year swung from the bizarre to the brilliantly bold, like Milan-based design studio 6:AM, which turned the basement of the historic Piscina Cozzi pool house into an offbeat gallery of Murano glass. We saw lamps, sconces, and quirky objects tucked inside raw concrete shower stalls, abandoned since the 1970s and hidden beneath a still-functioning public pool made in the 1930s by architect Luigi Lorenzo Secchi. Each stall held a different glass creation — some wobbly prototypes, others wild, sculptural experiments, making the whole space feel like a surreal treasure hunt of light and form.

Loro Piana X Dimoremilano

Dimorestudio’s presentations at Salone del Mobile are always a highlight, and this year was no different. Titled La Prima Notte di Quiete, the immersive installation blurred the lines between reality and cinematic illusion, all set within the moody, mysterious rooms of a grand 1970s fictional house. The installation presented new furniture pieces by Dimoremilano, along with the classic designs reimagined in Loro Piana fabrics.

You enter through heavy velvet curtains, and suddenly, the lights go out. A phone rings; no one answers. The bed’s unmade. The tub’s overflowing. And the sound of rain plays on loop like a haunted lullaby. The residual vignettes follow up as one progresses forward through the space.

Miu Miu’s Literary Club

If you thought literature can’t be sexy, you haven’t met the Miu Miu girls. At the second edition of the Miu Miu Literary Club in Milan, the fashion girls weren't there for gloss or gossip, but to dive deep into conversations around sexuality, desire, and the politics of girlhood. Curated under the direction of Miuccia Prada herself, this year’s theme explored the complex, intimate, and often misunderstood landscape of girlhood, love, and sex education.

“With their novels The Inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir and The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi, both authors challenge stereotypes that are still very present in our culture today,” said Mrs. Prada.

Béton Brut X Salvino Marsura

Salone pulls in visitors from over 160 countries, so it’s no surprise that the designs on display felt like a true global amalgam. London-based design gallery Béton Brut, originally known for stocking rare vintage furniture, has since expanded into commissioning contemporary work. They’ve now taken on their first artist’s estate: Italian sculptor and furniture maker Salvino Marsura, known for his work in signature organic Brutalism style.

In Milan, Béton Brut Gallery showcased his pieces from the 1960s and ’70s in two separate shows—three of his monumental sculptures were even set up in the garden at Alcova’s Villa Borsani, while smaller works were presented in other locations.

Aesop

At Salone del Mobile 2025, Aesop took on the role of official Sensory Patron with “The Second Skin” — a quietly powerful installation housed in Milan’s Chiesa del Carmine. Blurring the lines between architecture, scent, and ritual, it explored the parallels between human skin and design thresholds. A 16-metre cedarwood table by Sebastian Cox infused the space with the aroma of Aesop’s new Eleos collection, while elevated hand basins turned washing into a shared, meditative act. In a tucked-away room, guests received massages surrounded by rare Italian design furniture, in partnership with Morentz. A contemporary dance film with Nayoung Kim added a poetic layer to the experience. The sensory journey extended into Aesop’s Milan boutiques, encouraging deeper engagement with touch, movement, and scent. The response? Quiet awe — and plenty of Instagram love.

From The Second Skin exhibit.

Hermès

Hermès returned to Salone del Mobile 2025 with quiet confidence, turning La Pelota into a vast white cube that let the details do all the talking. Suspended geometric volumes floated like clouds, each housing new objects from the maison’s latest home collection. There was Tomás Alonso’s Pivot d’Hermès table — all subtle tension and balance — and Nigel Peake’s Contrepoint porcelain, where hand-drawn lines danced across fine china. The space, designed by Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry, stripped away the noise, spotlighting raw materials, technique, and emotion. Every object felt like a whisper, not a shout — and that, of course, is very Hermès.

Hérmes in "quest for the object" at La Pelota.