Salone del Mobile.Milano, the most important international fair for furniture and design, will return to Fiera Milano Rho from 21 to 26 April 2026. Marking its 64th edition, the Event will welcome several long‑awaited comebacks and introduce a series of new features. This year’s programme will once again highlight the fair’s ability to evolve while remaining firmly rooted in its commitment to quality, research, and cultural exploration.
Alongside the return of the Kitchen and Bathroom biennials, visitors will discover Salone Raritas, a new exhibition space devoted to limited‑edition design, as well as the first steps towards the creation of Salone Contract, a major new project set to debut fully in 2027. These developments are complemented by a renewed focus on visitor experience, curated paths, and enhanced wayfinding. Discover more.
Eurocucina and the International Bathroom Exhibition at the 64th Salone del Mobile.Milano
Following its success in 2024, great anticipation is building for the return of EuroCucina with FTK – Technology For the Kitchen, featuring 106 exhibitors from 17 countries. The Biennale promises to be the international reference platform for kitchen design, thanks to high-quality exhibition content that offers a clear view of the sector’s progress, driven by technology, sustainability, and innovation, intelligent systems, AI integration, biophilic design, and greater control for users, who will be able to create tailor-made atmospheres and environments.
Kitchens are becoming user-led, adapting, anticipating, and taking heed. But they remain true to their soul: UNESCO recently inscribed Italian cuisine on its list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, confirming the deep-seated value of the kitchen as a place of memory, creativity, and conviviality. Italian companies are responding to this recognition with research and conscious design: kitchens that express identity but also speak the global language of innovation.
The International Bathroom Exhibition will once again take centre stage as the sector’s largest international showcase, combining design and technology, with 163 exhibitors from 14 countries. The evolution of this space is being driven by an increasingly “home spa” vision: fluid environments, spectacular walk-in showers, equipped niches, storage mirrors, and layered lighting that sculpts the atmosphere. The keyword is wellbeing, but with a very concrete undertone: water efficiency, hygiene, and durability. There is also a theme that is rewriting design priorities: longevity. More than any other room, the bathroom has to withstand the passage of time and changing habits without losing its aesthetics or comfort.
Salone Contract: an Unprecedented Openness to a Brand New Sector
The Salone is embarking on a new venture, which will lead to the 2027 debut of Salone Contract, a long‑term strategic project conceived to interpret the complex ecosystem of contract design. Guided by a Masterplan entrusted to Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of OMA, the initiative is designed to interpret and understand the complexity of contract furnishing, a rapidly changing market on which value is shifting from individual products to the ability to integrate systems, skills, data, and services.
2026 represents a key phase in the run-up to the 2027 event: in April, OMA’s initial Contract observations will be presented at a lecture by Rem Koolhaas and a day of international forums organized by the Salone in collaboration with OMA. In the pavilions, a thematic journey among the exhibitors will offer a cross-cutting view of the contract offering and its evolutionary trajectories, while a structured incoming programme will involve a selection of international professionals and global top players.
Starting in September 2026, the project will continue with an international road tour of key markets, gradually building an informed and profiled international audience. In 2027, Salone Contract will present as a structured, non-generalist exhibition, with companies selected for their design quality, industrial capacity, and operational reliability, complemented by the first edition of Salone Contract Forum: three days of content and a programme of B2B meetings with international professionals.
Salone Raritas: the New Exhibition Space Dedicated to Limited Edition Design and High-End Creative Manufacturing
This edition will also mark the debut of Salone Raritas. Curated icons, unique objects, and outsider pieces, a new exhibition space dedicated to limited‑edition design, unique works, antiques, and high‑end craftsmanship. Curated by Annalisa Rosso, Editorial Director and Cultural Events Advisor of Salone del Mobile.Milano, with exhibition design by Formafantasma, the project brings together almost 25 distinguished exhibitors to create an innovative platform bridging special artistic production and the contemporary design market.
Salone Raritas represents the fair’s first direct engagement with the world of exceptional collectors’ pieces and refined artisanal output, offering architects, interior designers, developers, and hospitality professionals an opportunity to encounter design objects defined by rarity, cultural value, and narrative quality. The initiative aims to foster long‑term relationships and open new commercial perspectives, encouraging a renewed approach to the presentation and acquisition of limited editions and “outsider” pieces. These objects, embedded within prestigious interior projects, have the power to define the identity of both public and private spaces.
Aurea, an Architectural Fiction: an Immersive Narrative Installation in the Heart of A Luxury Way
Within A Luxury Way pathway, visitors will encounter Aurea, an Architectural Fiction, an immersive installation designed by the Paris‑based studio Maison Numéro 20 under the direction of interior architect Oscar Lucien Ono.
Conceived as an imaginary hotel, Aurea transforms interior design into narration and scenography, leveraging the emotional and sensory dimensions of living. Visitors will be invited to make their way through contrasting universes: from a lush winter garden to a surreal dining room, a mysterious smoking room, and a library complete with a fireplace. All the spaces will merge into a dream: they will be intimate and unique environments, in which interior design becomes an emotional and theatrical language.
The atmosphere will blend Art Deco influences, cinematic references, oriental symbolism, and surrealist accents in an immersive story in which light becomes matter – filtered, reflected, and sculpted by the architecture. Every detail, from the materials to the furnishings, is designed with sustainability in mind, ensuring that luxury is not ostentation, but a conscious vision of the art of living.
From Gesture to Form: A Matter of Salone Is the Latest Salone del Mobile.Milano Narration
A Matter of Salone, the new communication campaign of the Salone del Mobile.Milano, brings this collective narrative together and amplifies it by placing matter once again at the centre — as the origin and meaning of design. Through images, it translates the transition from gesture to form and significance, narrating the moment in which design begins to take shape. Conceived by Motel409, A Matter of Salone is a process of reflection on the essence of design. While last year, design was explored as a language at the service of people, this edition starts from an even more elemental point: matter itself. Matter that can be touched, read, and interpreted; matter that holds memory yet conceals unexplored potential.
But these meanings will not only permeate the Salone at a conceptual level: they will also materialize through concrete actions and a renewed sense of system that strengthens the way the event is experienced. The exhibitions and pathways will be supported by a reworked visitor experience: a clearer and more intuitive wayfinding system, developed by Leftloft, will guide visitors through the fair with greater ease, encouraging discoveries and encounters and making the event’s complexity more accessible.
Cover Photo: Entries at Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025 / ©Diego Ravier
Text and Photos: Salone del Mobile.Milano
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