Review 2025

DFROST x MILAN DESIGN WEEK

MILAN DESIGN
WEEK 2025

Salone del Mobile & Fuorisalone 2025 once again made Milan the creative heart of international design. With the theme »Connected Worlds«, this year’s event showcased how design can connect nature, technology, culture, and innovation. Focused on sustainability, immersive experiences, and human-centered design, it highlighted how design now tells stories, creates atmospheres, and sparks social change.

Hermès

Hermès presents minimalist design against a striking white backdrop, with floating white boxes featuring cutouts and niches where its vibrant homeware collection is staged. Curated by Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry, the installation uses colorful lighting to highlight the tactile beauty of Hermès’s craftsmanship. This pared-back setting shifts focus from traditional craft to the objects themselves, showcasing the power of simplicity in design.

ElleDecor
Alchemica

Elle Decor Alchemica at Palazzo Bovara, curated by Patricia Urquiola, reimagines the home as an evolving living space, featuring Andreu World’s new Brezal collection alongside Liceo Outdoor and Reverse Wood, exploring the metamorphosis of materials like glass, metal, and textiles to merge innovation, sustainability, and beauty.

Asus
Design You Can Feel

ASUS’s »Design You Can Feel« exhibition blends tactile design, sustainability and innovation. Studio INI’s Willful Wonder transforms Ceraluminum™ into an immersive structure that reacts to and remembers touch. This kinetic, biomimetic sculpture moves with visitors, uniting technology, aesthetics and nature-inspired materials. The debut of the Ceraluminum™ Zenbook completes the journey: design that feels, performs and lasts.

Louis Vuitton
Objet Nomades

Louis Vuitton’s home collection masterfully blends the brand’s rich heritage with contemporary design, featuring collaborations with renowned designers like Patrick Jouin and Patricia Urquiola. Highlights include reimagined iconic pieces, modern textiles and playful yet sophisticated gaming elements, like Estúdio Campana’s surreal table football.

Loewe
Teapots

Loewe’s Teapots collection transforms the everyday teapot into a sculptural statement. Featuring 25 international artists, the exhibition explores global tea traditions through bold reinterpretations in porcelain, clay, and metal—blending craft, innovation, and contemporary design.

Saint Laurent
Charlotte Perriand

Saint Laurent paid tribute to design legend Charlotte Perriand, exhibiting four of her iconic pieces—previously prototypes—now crafted as exclusive limited editions. Under Anthony Vaccarello’s direction, the exhibition merged modernist heritage with
contemporary sophistication. Blending history with contemporary craftsmanship.

Occhio
Dreamagination

Occhio’s Dreamagination at Villa Necchi Campiglio blends vibrant colors, innovative surfaces, and sophisticated finishes, showcasing the Mito series in high-gloss chrome, the opulent Luna series in a red monochrome setting, and the groundbreaking Coro and Coro Moon luminaires in gleaming gold.

Iqos x Seletti
Sensorium Piazza

IQOS x SELETTI introduced Curious X: Sensorium Piazza, an immersive, digital-meets-physical playground. Through multisensory art and interactive elements, the installation celebrated curiosity, design boldness, and IQOS’s smoke-free future in a playful yet visionary way. It offers a unique experience that challenges the status quo.

AMEX
Digital Garden

American Express presents Digital Garden, an immersive installation blending digital and natural worlds. Created by visual artist Debora Hirsch, it explores technology’s relationship with nature. The exhibit also features work by Manuel Riva, a student from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. The installation highlights American Express’s commitment to art, culture, and unique experiences.

Gucci
Bamboo Encounters

The Gucci »Bamboo Encounters« seamlessly fuses the brand’s legacy with contemporary design, exploring bamboo through collaborations with renowned designers. Highlights include Anton Alvarez’s organic sculpture 1802251226, which captures the essence of bamboo’s growth and the flow of water, and Liesbeth Abbenes and Maurice Scheltens’ Thank You Bamboo Kite.

Universita degli
Studi di Milano

Università Statale underscores the power of design as both creative force and catalyst for change. Showcasing 40 installations from global studios—including standout works by Zaha Hadid Architects, Piero Lissoni, and MAD Architects—the exhibition merges artistic vision with real-world relevance.

ElleDecor
Appartemento Spagnolo

The Appartamento Spagnolo transforms Palazzo Castiglioni into a vibrant dialogue between Art Nouveau elegance and contemporary Spanish design. The spaces blend historic beauty with bold materials, colors, and nature-inspired storytelling—proving that innovation thrives in respectful conversation with the past.

Walter Knoll
Threads of Creation

»Threads of Creation« weaves a spatial narrative at Walter Knoll’s showcase. Braided cords, bands, and fringes cascade through the space, intertwining with walls and furniture—connecting materials, ideas, and craftsmanship. Sculptural and tactile, these textile threads transform the Molamisa modular sofa into the centerpiece of an immersive landscape that invites discovery and dialogue.

Lynk & Co

Lynk & Co opened its Milan showroom to various designers and design studios under the theme Mondi Connessi. Through this collaboration, an impressive exhibition was created that united technology, environmental awareness, and community. Lynk & Co made a strong statement for circular retail design, pushing the sustainable future of commerce forward. Future-proof retail design emerges where material intelligence, sustainability, and storytelling come together – an approach that not only convinces aesthetically but also visibly demonstrates true responsibility in the space.

Seletti
Hotel Voyeur

Seletti’s Hotel Voyeur marks a bold evolution in the brand’s exploration of the intersection between art and design. Developed in collaboration with American artist Tracey Snelling, the project transforms architectural storytelling into a participatory visual experience. Blurring the lines between installation, cinema, and object, it invites viewers to engage with themes of voyeurism, urban life, and the human condition.

101010
by Layer

Layer’s »101010« exhibition takes a look at the future, celebrating the studio’s ten-year journey while presenting prototypes aimed at solving global challenges. From rainwater harvesting towers to adaptive clothing for extreme weather, the show masterfully combines function with form, pushing the boundaries of sustainable design.

IKEA
Do Something.
Change Everything

IKEA’s exhibition celebrates Democratic Design through a sensory and emotional lens—inviting visitors to engage, reflect, and reconnect. Spread across vibrant, thoughtfully designed spaces, the presentation blends casual intimacy with curated storytelling, showcasing the timeless appeal of Nordic materials, crafted simplicity, and circular design principles.

Budapest
Select

Budapest Select »A Woven View« presents a carefully curated dialogue between tradition and technology. The exhibition highlights how contemporary Hungarian design blends craftsmanship with digital innovation, creating meaningful intersections between human skill and artificial intelligence. The work on display demonstrates how simple materials and advanced techniques can coexist, resulting in adaptable, and sustainable design. The exhibition offers a reflective look at how design continues to evolve in response to both heritage and progress.

Saba x Alysi
The Skin I Live In

SABA x ALYSI unveiled The Skin I Live In, a poetic installation created with Studiopepe and Around Studio. Centered around the flowing Simposio Sofa, it explored the connection between body, space, and material—blending interior and fashion design
in ALYSI’s lush Garden House, celebrating feminine creativity and the intimate connection between what we wear and where we live.

Gentle
Monster

With its debut at Milan’s iconic 10 Corso Como, Gentle Monster opens its first Italian store and unveils a bold  fusion of cybercore and classicism—an immersive space where futuristic forms, raw textures, and Maison Margiela’s avant-garde eyewear collide in a deeply emotional design statement.

Margraf
Crash

Margraf presents the installation CRASH – a striking statement on the delicate balance between strength and fragility. Marble is not just displayed but transformed into a multisensory experience – tangible, immersive, emotional. CRASH shows how material can challenge our perception: when textures fracture and break free, surfaces become storytellers – evoking emotion, tension, and transformation beyond just form.

Foscarini
Caos Perfetto

Foscarini’s presentation merges innovation with tradition, showcasing bold new lighting designs and collaborations with renowned designers. The installation also features CAOS PERFETTO – Scratched Stories of Light by artist Bennet Pimpinella and the exhibition »What’s in a Lamp?«.

Cassina
Staging Modernity

Cassina’s 60th anniversary edition of the Le Corbusier®, Jeanneret®, Perriand® Collection blends timeless design with contemporary innovation. The collection, featuring new limited-edition colorways and sustainable materials, offers a modern interpretation of iconic pieces. Formafantasma’s Staging Modernity installation at Milan’s Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber immerses the pieces in the theater, with animal sounds and sculptures, challenging traditional modernist ideals with an ecological twist.

Cupra
Design House

CUPRA Design House sets new standards by blending craftsmanship with innovative technologies. Four prototypes were unveiled, featuring 3D-printed adaptive garments and sustainable collaborations. Highlights also included furniture such as a lounge chair, elevating CUPRA’s design to a new immersive level, combining emotion, functionality, and sustainability.

Hosoo x Dimorestudio
Hemispheres

Dimorestudio’s Hemispheres Collection seamlessly blends centuries-old Japanese craftsmanship with a contemporary Italian sensibility. In collaboration with the legendary Hosoo textile house, known for its intricate obi patterns, the collection reinterprets traditional motifs in soft, desaturated hues. Highlights include luxurious fabrics draped over sleek, modern furniture pieces, merging heritage with modern sophistication and bridging Eastern and Western design influences.

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