ICON’s Favourite Installations at Milan Design Week 2025
Now that Milan Design Week is in full swing, here are ICON’s key highlights
Every April, Milan becomes the beating heart of the global design world. What began in 1961 as a humble furniture fair at Rho Fiera has, over six decades, transformed into Salone del Mobile, or Milan Design Week – a sprawling, city-wide celebration of creativity and innovation. With over 2,300 exhibitors spread across 210,000 square metres, the event now stands at the intersection of design, fashion, and culture in one of Europe’s major hubs of culture, style and fashion.
But Milan Design Week is no longer just about furniture – it’s a cultural barometer, drawing thousands of designers, architects, luxury houses and tastemakers from across the globe every year. The 63rd edition, running from April 8 to 13, has so far delivered on its promise of audacious experimentation and boundary-pushing spectacle. With a mix of breathtaking concepts, exhilarating brand collaborations, and immersive installations that blur the line between the physical and the digital, Milan is once again setting the pace for the future of design.
Here are ICON’s key highlights from Milan Design Week 2025:
Louis Vuitton’s Cultural Renaissance in the Heart of Milan
Louis Vuitton made a commanding impression at Milan Design Week 2025 with two standout events. First, the Maison reopened its historic Via Montenapoleone 2 location just in time for Salone del Mobile, on April 4, following a three-year restoration of the Palazzo Taverna. The revamped space now includes the brand’s first restaurant concept in Italy – Da Vittorio Café and DaV by Da Vittorio – blending fashion, gastronomy, and Milanese elegance.
Elsewhere, at the stately Palazzo Serbelloni, the luxury Maison unveiled its latest Home Collections, alongside archival displays of original trunks and the now-iconic Objets Nomades, the Maison’s collectible furniture and design pieces. The neo-classical setting offers a striking backdrop for Louis Vuitton’s evolving vision of modern art de vivre, where heritage and innovation collide – further cementing Louis Vuitton’s position as not only a global force in culture and design but also a defining presence in the creative energy that powers Milan Design Week.
Courtesy of Louis Vuitton
An Exciting First-Time Collaboration Between Loro Piana and Dimoremilano
For Milan Design Week 2025, celebrated Milanese Maison Loro Piana debuted a striking collaboration with luxury design house Dimoremilano. Titled La Prima Notte di Quiete, the immersive installation transformed Loro Piana’s Cortile della Seta into a cinematic reverie – blurring the lines between reality and screen within an imagined domestic space.
Open to the public from April 8, the experience unfolds like a film set: a vintage cinema-style foyer gives way to a meticulously furnished 1970s–80s apartment, where timeless Dimoremilano pieces are upholstered in sumptuous Loro Piana Interiors fabrics. The space is brought to life with curated artworks from leading galleries such as Tornabuoni Art and Cardi Gallery, and an atmospheric soundscape by composer Nicola Guiducci. It’s a transportive collaboration that reflects both brands’ shared reverence for storytelling, texture, and timeless elegance.
Courtesy of Loro Piana
Valextra x Zaven: A Sculptural Reimagining of Travel
For Salone del Mobile 2025, Milanese leather house Valextra has joined forces with Venice-based design studio Zaven to debut Valextra Vocabolario 2.0–a striking fusion of archival heritage and architectural experimentation. The centrepiece of the collaboration, unveiled on April 7 at Valextra’s flagship boutique on Via Alessandro Manzoni 3, is the Costa 70 + Zaven suitcase–a refined reinterpretation of the brand’s iconic Costa line.
Courtesy of Valextra
Inside, a series of abstract components invites users to assemble their own sculptural compositions, transforming travel essentials into a modular home installation. The result is a mobile architectural artwork–elegant, adaptable, and deeply personal–that reflects the fluidity of modern luxury and the transformative potential of design. An enticing collaboration that distils the spirit of Milan Design Week into a single, collectible object.
Where Sea Meets Speed: The Giorgetti x Maserati Fusion
Another noteworthy collaboration is the one between Maserati and Giorgetti—two iconic Italian names united by their meticulous attention to detail and relentless pursuit of perfection. Rooted in a shared Italian heritage, their passion for beauty and craftsmanship gave rise to an exclusive interior collection and a one-off Fuoriserie Grecale. The word Fuoriserie translates to “out of the ordinary” in Italian—and that’s precisely what this creation is.
The Giorgetti Maserati Edition collection is a poetic journey between sea and sky, with Neptune’s trident inspiring the names of each piece. Every element in the collection draws on mythology and the raw power of nature, honoring Maserati’s distinctive iconography and the brand’s enduring connection to the winds and seas that have long shaped its automotive artistry.
Courtesy of Giorgetti x Maserati
Ferragamo’s Footsteps Through Time
At its men’s boutique on Via Montenapoleone, Ferragamo unveiled an immersive installation celebrating Tramezza—a signature of the Maison’s artisanal mastery. Bathed in striking red scenography, the space invites visitors into a dynamic dialogue between heritage and innovation.
Exquisite materials, authentic tools, and vertical displays narrate the evolution of Ferragamo’s craftsmanship, culminating in a pedestal honouring the iconic Tramezza shoes once worn by Andy Warhol. From April 8, live demonstrations by a master artisan have offered a rare glimpse into the meticulous process behind the brand’s most emblematic footwear – a homage to Italiancraftsmanship reimagined for a new generation of connoisseurs.
Courtesy of Ferragamo
Prada Frames: In Transit
Returning for its fourth edition at the 63rd Milan Design Week, Prada Frames once again affirmed the Maison’s commitment to cross-disciplinary inquiry and cultural dialogue. Curated by Formafantasma, the 2025 symposium – entitled In Transit – explored the infrastructures that shape movement in our modern world, from global logistics to digital networks and the politics of mobility.
Held aboard the newly restored 1950s Arlecchino train and in the regal Padiglione Reale at Milan Central Station over three days parallel to Salone del Mobile, the symposium brought historic Italian design and critical discourse together – an immersive and compelling reflection on design’s evolving relationship with mobility, environment, and power.
Courtesy of Prada
Loewe Teapots: A Global Ritual, Reimagined
Across continents and centuries, tea has served as a vessel for ritual, reflection, and connection–a theme Loewe explored at Milan Design Week 2025. For its Salone presentation, the Spanish house commissioned 25 artists, designers, and architects to unveil Loewe Teapots, a sculptural exhibition at Palazzo Citterio that reimagines the teapot’s form while celebrating the rich, cross-cultural traditions of tea making.
Each teapot is a carefully crafted canvas – rendered in porcelain, stoneware, and glazed finishes–blending heritage with contemporary experimentation. Alongside Teapots, Loewe also presented a homeware collection handcrafted by Spanish artisans, featuring collectible teapots, caddies, and scented charms, all viewed through Loewe’s singular lens of craftsmanship and cultural reverence.
Courtesy of Loewe
Accompanying these fascinating highlights from the 63rd edition of Milan Design Week are an array of creative offerings from some of the biggest names in fashion, design and culture–installations that are poised to shape the next chapter in global design culture.
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