Every year, as the weather begins to warm, an opinionated crowd of serial design obsessives descends onto Milan, their shiny suitcases in hand, for a seven-day of showcases orbiting around the stellar platform that is leading furniture fair Salone del Mobile. Since its debut in the 1980s, the Milanese institution has practically become synonymous with its host city, making the two inseparable.
Over the decades, Salone del Mobile earned the northern Italian destination the moniker of world’s foremost design capital, and expanded into an even longer, intergenerational calendar of captivating collection launches, artist collaborations, showroom takeovers, public activations, and creative roundtables commonly known as Milan Design Week — or Fuorisalone (from the Italian expression “out of Salone”).
