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Milan Design Week connects Milan and Turin

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MiTo Design Connections is a unique initiative aimed at strengthening the creative and cultural link between the cities of Turin and Milan. With the goal of enhancing the visitor and exhibitor experience for the 2025 edition of Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone, MiTo Design Connections offers a complete hospitality and accommodation service. This way, Milan Design Week connects Milan and Turin, making it easier than ever to explore both cities during one of the world’s most important design events.

More than just a convenient place to stay, Turin — only 40 minutes from Milan by train — becomes a vibrant destination in its own right, offering visitors an unforgettable blend of design, art, culture, and gastronomy. Through a curated selection of exclusive events, exhibitions, and cultural experiences, guests are invited to discover the city’s creative soul while enjoying moments of relaxation and inspiration.
From premium hotel packages to seamless train services, and from partnerships with iconic cultural destinations to curated design experiences, MiTo Design Connections transforms Turin into a dynamic extension of Milan Design Week — the perfect setting for combining professional networking with authentic cultural exploration.

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The Circolo del Design in Turin

Celebrate Design in Turin from April 4 to 20, 2025

For over two weeks, from April 4 to 20, 2025, Turin joins Milan in celebrating design, hosting a rich program of events, exhibitions, and immersive experiences across the city. From pop-up installations to design talks, culinary experiences, and art-meets-design happenings, the city becomes a vibrant stage for creativity and innovation.

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The Nuvola by Lavazza

AMTS – Auto Moto Turin Show

Following the overwhelming success of its debut edition, AMTS – Auto Moto Turin Show is back, running from April 4 to 6, 2025, at Lingotto Fiere and Oval. More than just an exhibition, AMTS has established itself as a must-attend event for car and motorcycle enthusiasts, design lovers, and technology fans alike.
Organised by GL events Italia, AMTS once again hosts Italy’s largest indoor tuning event in collaboration with ETT – Expo Tuning Torino, showcasing some of the most spectacular customized vehicles in the country. Outside the halls, the excitement continues with adrenaline-fueled performances, including acrobatic stunt shows and high-energy drifting demonstrations.
New for 2025, visitors will also have the extraordinary opportunity to experience the thrill of motorsport firsthand with Taxi Drift rides, where professional drivers take you on a heart-pounding journey inside a real race car.

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OGR Torino

Digital Days in Turin

Step into a boundary-breaking digital ecosystem where ideas, people, and technologies flow seamlessly together, blurring the lines between the physical and virtual worlds, and between human creativity and artificial intelligence.
Digital Days is a celebration of innovation in constant motion, where connections expand, collaborations form, and new opportunities take shape. With a diverse program of talks, workshops, interactive installations, and live demos, Digital Days invites visitors to experience the future of creativity and technology, where everything — and everyone — is in flux.

DW! São Paulo Design Week: interview with Lauro Andrade, founder

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On the occasion of DW! São Paulo Design Week 2025, we interviewed Lauro Andrade, founder of DW! São Paulo Design Week. He has a managerial background with an MBA, and he previously served as executive director at companies such as Brahma, Sebrae, Pizza Hut, and Canguru Embalagens (1993 to 2003). He managed Latin America’s largest coatings, architecture, and decoration B2B fair, Expo Revestir, as well as the International Architecture and Construction Forum, for 14 years (2003 to 2017). At the same time, he organized over 30 events in 12 countries across four continents (2006 to 2017). Then, he founded Summit Promo (2003), where he designed and created DW! São Paulo Design Week (2012) and High Design Home and Office Expo (2016) — an events company he still runs today. We spoke with him about the potential of design weeks as engines to foster the growth of creative activities.

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Lauro Andrade

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The magic of glass from Italy: Venice Design Week

The 16th edition of Venice Design Week took place in Venice, October 11 to 2024, with a focus on Murano glass, from Venice, as usual. Since 2010, every year in autumn, Venice has become the home of design for a week.
The 2024 edition saw the participation of 84 designers and 25 artisans, an increase over the previous edition.
The physical audience reached 6,647 people. The official Venice Design Week website recorded 6,691 active users during the design week, an increase from the 5,408 unique users in 2023. Engagement on Instagram also marked a 40 percent growth over last year, confirming the public’s growing interest in social media.

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Julie Conway at Simone Cenedese

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Passagen Cologne 2025: the first time without imm cologne

In 2025, imm cologne is taking a break, leaving many to wonder how this will impact Passagen, Cologne’s celebrated design festival. Passagen 2025 should take place in Cologne from January 10 to 16, 2025, anyway. Festival founder Sabine Voggenreiter addressed these concerns in a recent interview with the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. “The cancellation of the trade fair will, of course, affect us,” Voggenreiter acknowledged, “especially after the challenging years we faced during the COVID pandemic. However, we’ve since recovered well.”

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Passagen 2024

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Milan Design Events 2025

The Milan Design Week for exhibitors and visitors

People often ask me about Design Week Milan. Both visitors and would-be exhibitors. So, I thought I would write this short guide explaining the essential info about the Milan Design Week and the Milan Design Events, 2025. 

Milan Design Week and Events 2025 Essentials

Dates: April, 6-13, 2025
Tickets: Free for events in town, paid admission to the Salone del Mobile (Milan Furniture Fair)

Size: 10 Districts, over 1000 events

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Exhibition by Jacopo Foggini at Milan Design Week 1999. Photo Andreas Otero, courtesy Jacopo Foggini

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Milan Design Week 2025

Connected Worlds is the theme of the Fuorisalone, an essential part of Milan Design Week 2025, which will take place from 7 to 13 April 2025. Like every year, in conjunction with the Salone del Mobile.Milano, 8-13 April 2025, Milan will host the Fuorisalone, which, together with the Salone, creates the Milan Design Week.

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Lasvit at Milan Design Week 2024

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Milan Design Week 2024

Milan Design Week 2024 is back in Milan from April 14 to 21. This year, Milano Design Week promises to be full of events, exhibitions, and installations, and the global design community will meet in Milan for a week.

This is an interactive map with a selection of events

 

Fuorisalone.it, for Milan Design Week 2024, suggests a theme: Materia Natura (Matter Nature). Design practices are fundamental to developing a conscious design culture,  emphasizing sustainability as a guiding principle and core value in the creative process. The Fuorisalone will take place as usual in conjunction with the Salone del Mobile.Milano. It focuses on the themes of circular economy, reuse, and sustainability of methods and materials. 

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People at Superdesign Show

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Maison & Objet 2024: what to expect

Maison&Objet 2024 celebrates 30 years of French inspiration in furniture, design and lifestyle. To celebrate this anniversary, the show will take visitors on a journey into an enchanted future, where technology and nature coexist in harmony. The underlying theme of Maison&Objet 2024 is TECH EDEN: the fair, Maison & Objet in the City, and the virtual platform M.O.M. will develop around this thread.

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Outonomy – installation by Mathieu Lehanneur

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Design Post Cologne 2024

Design Post, in Cologne, is not quite an event. In fact, it is a permanent showroom, which comes alive at certain, particularly representative trade fairs. Design Post is located at Deutz-Mülheimer-Strasse 22a in Cologne, so exactly opposite the halls of Koelnmesse. This is a forward-looking location that allows companies to have a permanent showroom, and attract trade fair visitors to the adjacent halls. In addition, Design Post, carved out of a Post Office building, is a particularly striking and attractive location with post-industrial architecture.

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The Design Post building in Cologne. Photo: Lucas Hardonk, courtesy Design Post

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DW! São Paulo Design Week in Brasil

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The São Paulo Design Week (DW! Semana de Design de São Paulo) is one of the world’s largest and most influential design weeks. Founded in 2012 (as Design Weekend) by Lauro Andrade in São Paulo, Brazil, it’s thus reaching its thirteenth edition in 2025. The program features different activities, promoting design culture and its connections. It involves many topics, such as architecture, art, decoration, urbanism, social inclusion, business, innovation, technology, and all other topics of the creative economy. The many Design Week events occur in various locations scattered around São Paulo, Brazil. The next edition takes place from March 10-16, 2025.

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Virginia Building, 2023

Until 2022, the Design Week used to take place in September, but from 2023, it takes place in March. In 2025, the design festival includes 113 events, taking place at 126 venues. The events cover many districts, scattered throughout the metropolitan area, plus an eighth “district” of online events. Among the districts involved, are Alameda Gabriel; D&D Shopping; Jardins, Ibirapuera, Moema and Sul; Shopping Cidade Jardim; Pinheiros, Vila Madalena and Oeste; Shopping Lar Centre; Paulista, Centro and Higienópolis. March, therefore, proves to be an ideal time for the launch of collections and products, in synergy with the vision of other major design weeks worldwide. 

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Design Para Ver e Comer, Shopping Lar Centre, 2023

A rich program of events, exhibitions and lectures

The program includes events varying in nature, including many product and collection launches. In the same spirit that animates the most celebrated design festivals, such as Milan Design Week, the London Design Festival, or NYCxDesign, DW! São Paulo Design Week hosts many conferences, lectures, and workshops. More than that, they creates new life in some city areas with temporary exhibitions, craft fairs, or site-specific installations.

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Virginia Building, 2023

Why visit

The Design Week in São Paulo is a plural event open to everyone, professionals or just design enthusiasts. It’s the perfect path to discover unknown corners in town, or to stroll along the design and fashion streets.
Some events, with limited seating, ask for prior registration. Most activities are free, but some charge a fee. On the website, the event organizers provide the opportunity to register. The festival takes place mainly in person, but also includes some online events.

DW! São Paulo Design Week, São Paulo, Brazil, 10-16, 2025

The events are open to professional and general public
Size: 113 events, over 100,000 visitors
Visit DWSemanadedesign.com.br website for info and registration

Perth Design Week 2025

Since its launch in 2023, Perth Design Week (PDW) has rapidly established itself as a premier platform for showcasing design excellence and fostering thought-provoking discussions on issues shaping Western Australia and beyond.

Now entering its third year, Perth Design Week 2025 (March 20-27) promises to be more impactful than ever, featuring new collaborators and over 75 events taking place across Boorloo (Perth) and beyond.

Drawing inspiration from world-renowned design festivals in cities such as Milan, New York, London, and Melbourne, PDW aspires to position Perth on the global map as a hub for design creativity, innovation, and critical thinking—particularly in areas such as sustainable design.

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Perth Design Week 2025: an inclusive design festival 

PDW – Perth Design Week 2025 is a landmark event for Perth’s creative community and beyond, providing a platform for innovative ideas and engagement with critical issues, including sustainable design, emerging talent, and design’s role in social change.

Co-founders Sandy Anghie and David Smith describe the festival as an annual celebration of design’s power to drive positive change.

Perth Design Week brings this awareness to the forefront, offering Western Australians the opportunity to engage meaningfully with the design community. Spanning a diverse range of disciplines – including architecture, urban planning, landscape design, interior design, furniture, fashion, and graphic design – PDW is designed to be inclusive and accessible to all. It is a celebration of how design influences every part of our lives and how we can collectively shape the world through creative collaboration.
Emphasizing inclusivity, the festival champions the idea that design is for everyone.

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Perth Design Week Advisory Board (Gaye McMath, Eugene Hooks, Sandy Anghie, David Smith, Juliana Torres, Reinette Roux

PDW 2025: a strong Italian presence

While PDW has a strong local focus, its growing international collaborations are strengthening Perth’s place in the global design conversation. In 2024, PDW signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Consulate of Italy in Perth, and this year, the works with the Consul of Italy continues.

As part of this collaboration, the Consulate of Italy in Perth, together with Curtin University, will present an exhibition by renowned Italian architect Mario Cucinella.

Italian creativity will be at the center of the partnership with Perth Design Week (March 20-27), which will feature the extraordinary participation of the famous architect and designer Mario Cucinella (author of the Italian Pavilion at Expo Osaka 2025). As part of the celebrations for Italian Design Day, Cucinella will showcase exclusive installations and an exhibition dedicated to sustainable architecture, with the participation of leading Italian companies in the sector, including Molteni.

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Mario Cucinella, photo Julius Hirtzberger

Highlights from Perth Design Week 2025 Program

  • Opening Night Celebration at the Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip, featuring a runway show by Peter Farmer Designs and a panel discussion exploring “What makes design from this place uniquely Western Australian?”
  • “Western Australian Design Now” Exhibition at Boola Bardip, showcasing innovative works from 30 leading WA designers.
  • Workplace Design Insights: Global engineering firms Arup and Aurecon invite attendees to their newly designed Perth headquarters to discuss co-design and Indigenous engagement in workplace design.
  • Public Installation: Peter Farmer Designs will create a bespoke design installation at WS2, bringing Arup’s workplace artwork into the public realm.
  • Sustainable Design in Retail: Cultivated × Mark Tuckey Pop-Up and tour at Monash House, featuring restored iconic furniture and zero-waste retail design by Foolscap Studio.
  • Cerclos Sustainable Design Events: A series of events hosted by Cerclos, a global leader in optimizing sustainability in the built environment.
  • PROJECT_HOME: Architects Joel Benichou and Craig Nener present innovative solutions for efficient, pre-designed living spaces.
  • Community Engagement: A workshop led by Town Team Movement and Northbridge Common Town Team to redesign Lock Lane, enhancing safety, sustainability, and community connection.

PDW supports emerging designers

A key focus of PDW is supporting emerging designers, ensuring their voices and visions for the future are heard. Returning this year are annual exhibitions by North Metropolitan TAFE and Curtin University, showcasing fresh perspectives from the next generation of creatives. Additionally, NODE will present a panel discussion with leading designers shaping Perth’s creative future.

Perth Design Week 2025 runs from March 20-27, 2025, at various venues in Perth, Australia. It’s proudly supported by Major Sponsors UniFor, SHAPE, Zsa Zsa Property, Human-Urban, Consulate of Italy in Perth, and Sandy Anghie.

Perth Design Week, Perth, March 20-27, 2025

Perth Design Week is open to professional and general public
Some events are paid admission
Size: around 100 events, various locations
Visit PerthDesignWeek website for more info

Milan Design Week

The Milan Design Week: a design event

The Milan Fuorisalone, or Milan Design Week, as a whole, is a gigantic design project, which in 40 years redesigned Milan. Design has arrived, in the form of creative and resourceful entrepreneurs, intelligent real estate developers, designers and architects, and has regenerated territories, giving them a new life.

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The gala dinner by Salone del Mobile.Milano at La Scala Theater

This could only happen in Milan, a city with a vocation for research in industrial design. In fact, Milan is surrounded by Brianza, “the region with the highest creativity rate in the world,” industrial know-how. This could probably happen only in Italy, thanks to the “Italian factor.” The Fuorisalone is indeed the sum of many local factors, and territorial factors are inherently local. 

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A choral and spontaneous event

Another fundamental characteristic of this big design event is that it is a grass-rooted event, created by the initiative of many people. The people who organized the events, the protagonists of the various events, the audience who attended them. There are some questions that are difficult to answer. One of the most recurring is, “Who invented the Milan Design Week?” Everyone and no one. Actually, it was quite amusing to discover that there are at least a hundred inventors of the Fuorisalone. It is true that some of the protagonists of the first phase of the Fuorisalone played a particularly significant role, but, since it is not a codified event, with a beginning or an end, there are not people who invented it. There are many people who created the conditions for what happened to occur over the course of several years.  

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The Milan Design Week 1989: exhibition at Lido, a public swimming pool facility

The Fuorisalone: connections and networking

If we wanted to describe the event in a few words, we could say that over time it has turned into a formidable communication format and that for years it was the main tool for networking. A scientific form of party, designed with the utmost care: design expressed itself as a place for relationships between people, where the convivial moment was a key component of the event, just like the exhibition and the installations.

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April in Milan: Salone del Mobile.Milano and Fuorisalone

It should not be forgotten that the Fuorisalone would have never existed without the Salone del Mobile. The trade fair, in the pavilions of Fieramilano — currently in Rho and, until 2005, at the old Fiera Campionaria premises — is the lifeblood that has always sustained the Fuorisalone, which, not by chance, for many years was not an independent event, but a series of “side events to the Salone del Mobile.” And the fact that since the mid-seventies the city of Milan has been attracting a cultured public interested in design is due to the Salone del Mobile and its ability to highlight the design culture element characterizing the industrial production of Italian furniture, already so well-known in the world as to be the subject of an exhibition at MoMA, in New York, in 1972, “Italy: the new domestic landscape,” curated by Emilio Ambasz.

This is also the reason why the main subject of the events has always been furniture and why design has been identified with furniture for a long time. It is only in the last 20 years that a definition of Milan Design Week with events not related to the furniture sector began to emerge, and in recent times there have been increasingly insistent questions about the future evolution of the Fuorisalone. 

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The future 

2020 has doubtlessly been another important stage in the history of this week of global resonance and there are several unknown elements in its future. 

Salone del Mobile.Milano is back, and with it, Milan Design Week. Many things have already changed, but one thing is still clear: that people still want to meet in person. Therefore, Milan Design Week is still alive and vital, even if undergoing a profound transformation.

In the galleries, images and photos from the different editions of Milano Design Week, divided by years and editions.

Why visit

One can visit Milan Design Week for many reasons. As a simple design enthusiast, it is a unique opportunity to meet up close with the world’s best-known designers, who pass through Milan during this week.
Tip: get a comprehensive guide, such as Interni’s Fuorisalone Guide or DDN’s Fuorisalone Guide, or patiently browse Fuorisalone.it, looking for events that may interest you.

Although the events are all free admission, many require registration. However, be prepared for long lines, especially for the most popular events.

In addition to design and designers, Milan Design Week is an opportunity to see many secret corners of the city. Noble palaces, secret courtyards, and showrooms you don’t usually enter are among the places open to everyone during Milan Design Week.

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The events are open to professional and general public
Size: about 1,000 events, more than 400,000 visitors
Visit Fuorisalone.it website for more info on events