SALONE DEL MOBILE MILAN: DESIGNING SUSTAINABILITY

Photo: salonemilano.it / Fratelli Boffi

The Salone del Mobile Milan, the world's most prominent event in the interior design and furniture industry, took place for the 60th time this year from June 7 to 12. After a year and a half of delay, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, and last year's September edition, organized in a much smaller format due to pandemic precautions, this year's Salone del Mobile was an event that all furniture manufacturers and designers, but also all trend-followers in interior design, eagerly awaited.

ARMANI CASA

ARMANI CASA

As announced, the number of exhibitors and visitors at the Salone del Mobile this year returned to pre-epidemic levels, making the entire event a top design holiday in which we were able to observe absolutely all of upcoming interior design and furniture trends. The fair gathered more than 2,000 exhibitors from all over the world, including 600 designers under the age of 35, who had the opportunity to show maximum creative freedom through their solutions.

CASSINA

PAOLO CASTELLI

The theme of this year's Salone del Mobile was sustainability in furniture design and manufacture, with the message that the further development of this industry must nurture an ecological approach and awareness of environmental responsibility. Despite the fact that all of the exhibitors attempted to respond to the theme with their ideas, the overall sense is that design has reasserted itself as an untouchable category that is unaffected by any crisis or scenario. It turned out, on the contrary, that it could only ennoble it.

VERSACE HOME

TOM DIXON

That is why this year, in the eyes of all visitors and observers of the Milan Furniture Fair, only the beauty remained, a part of which, the one with the most prestigious luxury brand signatures, we present to you.

BOCA DO LOBO

COVET HOUSE

Of course, the Fiera Milano center was not the only site where we could view what designers and manufacturers had to offer for decorating bathrooms, kitchens, living rooms, terraces, courtyards, and offices.

ROBERTO CAVALLI HOME

BUGATTI HOME

This year, like many times before, during the Furniture Fair, Fuorisalone was traditionally held, which includes a wide range of events in various areas of Milan, in honor of interior design and furniture. Throughout Milan, there were numerous exhibitions, presentations, concerts, and performances, the most popular of which, as expected, were those arranged by well-known brands.

By: Ana Kralj

Photo: Salone del Mobile. Milan