From 8 to 13 April 2025, the industry will be looking to Milan for the Salone del Mobile and Milan Design Week. ‘Thought for Humans’ is the guiding theme of Dentsu Creative Italy and photographer Bill Durgin, whose campaign aims to make the subtle relationship between man and material visible.

The kinetic installation ‘Library of Light’ by Es Devlin is a Salone project with the Pinacoteca di Brera and the publishing house Feltrinelli: a rotating sculpture consisting of illuminated shelves containing over 2,000 books. The scenery is accompanied by the writings of pioneering academics and classical music. The artist and set designer gives us an insight into her work.

In parallel to the manufacturers' presentations, Milan will be hosting a large number of exhibitions and events over the coming week, both at the exhibition centre and in the city. We have created a personal selection for you and hope you enjoy discovering them.

Arper is presenting exciting research into sustainable production at the Salone del Mobile. This includes the further development of the ‘Catifa’ chair: ‘Catifa (RE) 46’.

The East Westphalian upholstered furniture manufacturer COR will emphasise its strong presence on the international stage at Milan Design Week 2025. More:

Decor Walther is presenting the pop-up exhibition ‘Reflecting’ at Milan Design Week 2025. Its laid-back staging offers a new perspective on the brand's high-quality interior accessories products.

Under the motto ‘Metal is our nature’, Desalto is presenting a dialogue between contrasts at the Salone del Mobile 2025: soft upholstery and hard metal. Francesco Rota has devised an installation that harmoniously combines this contrast and picks up on the geometry of Desalto's metal furniture.

Flos will be represented at two locations in Milan from 8 to 13 April 2025: At the Salone del Mobile and in the city. The creative duo Formafantasma came up with the concept for the presentations.

Jung welcomes visitors to the Milan Design Week with an interactive installation: together with the Ippolito Fleitz Group, they have devised a scenery with a magic sphere in the centre.

At Milan Design Week 2025, Wagner will be presenting an installation that demonstrates just how varied and flexible the full-range supplier's range of room concepts is.

Lodes is planning an impressive comeback at Euroluce: it will be the first time since 2020 that the Venetian lighting manufacturer will be exhibiting at the Salone del Mobile lighting biennale.

In cooperation with Messe Frankfurt, Stylepark organised a talk with Jens J. Wischmann and Malte Just during the world's leading trade fair for water, heat and air in Frankfurt am Main. The topic: ‘Solutions for a sustainable future: What trends does the ISH offer?’. Watch the video and find out more!

Quo vadis SHK industry? ISH, the world's leading trade fair for HVAC + Water in Frankfurt am Main, provides a broad answer to this question every two years. What is it and what could visitors discover in the halls from 17 to 21 March 2025? Our review.

The Designplus Award by ISH in collaboration with Stylepark honours outstanding developments and forward-looking ideas ranging from smart technology for efficient building control to pioneering products and resource-saving water use. These are the winners 2025.

Stefan Seitz is the Head of Brand Management ISH at Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH. In this interview, he tells us what the new offerings at the world’s leading trade fair for HVAC + Water from 17 to 21 March 2025 are and what is important in the industry now.

When Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, supposedly ordered a yacht that runs on hydrogen, the excitement in 2020 was huge. It seemed that the technology had made it out of its niche after failed experiments as a form of propulsion for cars. The topic became virulent again after Russia's attack on Ukraine. What is the state of the debate?

The efficient sorting of used textiles is fundamental to the circular economy – reverse.fashion has developed an automated sorting system that uses artificial intelligence to save time and money. Dr Karsten Pufahl, Member of the Management Board, tells us how it works.

Prof. Ferdinand Ludwig is an architect and holds the Chair of Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture at Technische Universität München (TUM); he is also a partner at OLA Office for Living Architecture. In this interview, he talks to us about the uses of Baubotanik in the city of tomorrow.

Emma Olbers is a designer and sustainability strategist. As part of the upcoming Stockholm Furniture Fair, she is presenting the exhibition "Now or never 1kg CO2e" from 7 to 11 February 2023 on the invisible climate impact of our furniture. She explains the concept of the show in an interview.

The young designer Kateryna Basiuk works on new and sustainable textiles in Lucerne. For her ‘Silent Canvas’ project, she investigated the sound-absorbing structure of insects and transferred it to knitwear. A conversation about virtual textiles, local natural materials and what moth wings have to do with fibres.

With cardboard and tenacity: Berlin designer Pascal Hien founded his own studio last year after ten years at the Fabrica Research Centre, Steelcase and Konstantin Grcic. Hien's first designs for Tecta and Le Klint have just been launched on the market.

Anton Defant has attracted the attention of the design world with his Viennese thesis project entitled "Ballast". And that's not all he has to offer.

He works somewhere between design, sculpture and puppetry, says Simon Schmitz about his work as a luminaire designer. One thing is certain: The Berliner-by-choice is a tinkerer who stages light like a material.

In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects", we regularly present the work of female architects – such as Carme Pinós, who seeks a very individual expression with her buildings and furniture designs.

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Odile Decq, who seeks with her work to find an individual and holistic form of architecture.

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – like that of Mariam Issoufou, whose work is drawing attention to African architecture.

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Anna Heringer, who is a true believer in clay building. She was recently awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for her commitment.

How can AI applications be energy-efficiently optimised, for example for digitalised processes in the construction industry? Dr Mario Chemnitz explains his current research and points out the role that light fulfils in the process.

The Spore Haus receives the DAM Preis 2025. With floor-to-ceiling windows, the cultural and educational centre opens up to the busy street and red bricks define the façade of the new building by AFF Architekten. A peaceful garden stretches out behind the building. Sven Fröhlich and Ulrike Dix explain the concept.

Katja Thoring is Professor of Integrated Product Design in Munich. She teaches and researches at the interface of product, space, architecture and technology. In this interview, she explains her interdisciplinary approach and how creative working environments can be designed with the needs of the user in mind.

Visitors to the Biennale Architettura 2025 can experience the high necessity of climate-adapted urban planning at first hand in the German Pavilion. The International Architecture Exhibition as a whole is intended to serve as a dynamic laboratory that enables disciplines to work together to make cities more resilient, healthier and more liveable.