Salone Del Mobile.Milano 2026 sets the coordinates for the project’s near future
The most important international furniture and design industry event reveals the 64th edition programme including the return of the biennial exhibitions and new curatorial territories.
Following the success of the 64th edition, the Salone, the most important international furniture and design industry event, is preparing to add a new chapter to its history: the Salone del Mobile 2026 will take place from 21st to 26th April at Fiera Milano Rho. More than 1,900 exhibitors (36.6% from abroad), 227 brands including first-timers and returnees, over 169,000 square metres of net exhibition space completely sold out.
At the centre of it all is the eagerly awaited return of the biennial exhibitions: EuroCucina with FTK – Technology For the Kitchen, featuring 106 brands from 17 countries, and the International Bathroom Exhibition, which will bring together 163 brands from 14 countries. These figures confirm that the Salone is an active and evolving cultural infrastructure: a relational and strategic driver that fuels global connections, disseminates shared visions and consolidates Milan’s role as the capital of contemporary design.
The common thread running through the 2026 edition will be an increasingly integrated architecture of content and exhibition itineraries. The Salone is also embarking on a new venture, which will lead to the debut of Salone Contract in 2027 — the Masterplan has been entrusted to Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten (OMA) — which will explore the major themes of this changing ecosystem — from the interpretation of contexts to the visitor experience, integrated supplies and the strengthening of B2B networking.
Debuting also Salone Raritas. Curated icons, unique objects, and outsider pieces: 25 exhibitors will create a new platform, a bridge between special production and the design market, curated by Annalisa Rosso, Editorial Director and Cultural Events Advisor of the Salone del Mobile.Milano, with exhibition design by Formafantasma.
The pathway A Luxury Way will feature Aurea, an Architectural Fiction, an immersive installation designed by the Parisian studio Maison Numéro 20 guided by interior architect Oscar Lucien Ono: an imaginary hotel that transforms interior design into narration and scenography, leveraging the emotional and sensory dimensions of living. Bringing this narrative together and amplifying it, the communication campaign
A Matter of Salone is a collective project that puts matter back at the centre as the origin and meaning of design, translating the transition from gesture to form and meaning into images, and a reworked visitor experience: a clearer and more intuitive way finding system will help visitors find their way around the fair more easily, fostering discoveries and encounters and making the complexity of the event easier to understand.
As always, there will be four annual events: the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition, Workplace3.0, and S.Project, with a total of 915 brands (38.57% from abroad), including 139 taking part for the first time or returning to the Salone. The entire event will be accessible thanks tonew thematic itineraries, allowing visitors to appreciate the distinctive features of an unrivalled offering.
Completing the picture is SaloneSatellite with 700 designers under 35 and 23 international schools and universities. The theme of the27thedition is Maestriaartigiana + Innovazione― Skilled Craftsmanship + Innovation, an invitation to rediscover craftsmanship as the language of the future, a bridge between manual heritage and technological vision. A collective call to rethink “making by hand” as a design, cultural and political act, capable of giving shape to the urgent needs of a new global generation of designers.
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