During Milan Design Week 2026, MENU transformed Chiesa Anglicana Tutti i Santi into a unified architectural narrative. Curated by Bodo Sperlein, the exhibition brought material, light, and collaboration into quiet alignment.

During Milan Design Week, Nilufar quietly stepped away from spectacle to imagine something more intimate. Le Pied-à-Terre Cosmopolite unfolded as a refined Milanese retreat, where vintage icons and contemporary design formed a lived‑in narrative of cosmopolitan elegance, material intelligence, and everyday ritual.

At Milan Design Week 2026, Nilufar’s Casa Magica transformed the idea of home into a ritual space shaped by belief, symbolism, and storytelling. More introspective than spectacle‑driven, it revealed another dimension of Nilufar’s curatorial world.

At Milan Design Week 2026, Louis Vuitton transformed Palazzo Serbelloni into an immersive dialogue between heritage and contemporary collectible design, where the Objets Nomades collection unfolded alongside a monumental Pierre Legrain–inspired courtyard installation created with the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera.

At Milan Design Week 2026, Nilufar Depot transformed into an imagined hotel where collectable design replaced guests, and storytelling replaced spectacle. Nilufar Grand Hotel reaffirmed why the gallery remains one of the most compelling and consistent voices on the global design stage.

During Milan Design Week 2026, Marcin Rusak Studio presented Forum Florum: Herbarium of the Present at SIAM – an exhibition that rejected urgency in favour of reflection. Exploring botany, memory, and material experimentation, Rusak’s installation transformed flowers into living archives, offering a rare meditation on time, beauty, and preservation in contemporary design.

Alcova 2026 once again proved that the future of design does not live in white boxes. Set within abandoned hospitals and a rare rationalist villa, Alcova remains one of Milan Design Week’s most vital platforms for emerging voices, spatial experimentation, and a design culture that feels raw, human, and deeply alive.

At Milan Design Week 2026, Tom Dixon replaced the traditional exhibition with something far more immersive. Taking over a twelve-room micro-hotel within the historic Mulino Estate, the Mua Mua Hotel became a lived-in showcase for his AW26 collections, where lighting, furniture and craft unfolded through daily rituals rather than display plinths.

A detailed, story-led look at Bocci’s Milan Design Week installation, exploring how glass, light and suspension combine to create an atmospheric design experience that blurs the boundary between object and space.

Kohler and Flamingo Estate unveil one of Milan Design Week 2026’s most thoughtful collaborations: a sculptural bathhouse set within a wildflower meadow that explores ritual, craftsmanship, sustainability and the restorative power of design.

A reimagined antique carousel takes centre stage at Milan Design Week as ARKET and Laila Gohar transform Giardino delle Arti into a surreal yet familiar world where oversized fruit and vegetables replace traditional fairground figures. Blending sculpture, storytelling, and shared experience, the installation invites visitors into a poetic reflection on everyday beauty, play, and hospitality.

Returning to Palazzo Donizetti for Milan Design Week 2026, L’Appartamento by Artemest transforms one of Milan’s grandest historic residences into an immersive journey through Italy’s cultural capitals. Designed by five international studios, this year’s edition is a richly layered celebration of craftsmanship, heritage and contemporary interior design.

Fornasetti unveils its transformed Milan flagship during Milan Design Week 2026. Designed with Tutto Bene, the new three-floor destination reimagines retail as an immersive world of craft, archive and imagination.

Lee Broom unveils Beacon during Milan Design Week 2026, a striking large-scale lighting installation in Piazza San Babila that merges public art, architecture and sustainability in one of the city’s standout design moments.

An in-depth guide to Brera Design District during Milan Design Week 2026, highlighting the most important installations, showroom presentations and immersive experiences shaping Milan’s leading design destination this year.

Milan Design Week 2026 continues to redefine the boundaries of exhibition design, transforming the city into a sequence of immersive environments where architecture, material, and narrative converge. From fictional hotel worlds and sensory installations to archival reinterpretations and experimental collaborations, this curated Design Radar guide explores the ten most visually compelling installations shaping this year’s Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone, including standout projects by Nilufar Depot, Prada, Alcova, Zaha Hadid Architects, and more.

‘Oublié’ showcases a range of contemporary furniture, textiles, and lighting designed by the brand’s founders Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran.

During Milan Design Week, DNP and its creative partners present a stunning installation created with advanced technologies that go beyond the traditional boundaries of printing under the concept title 'Patterns as Time'.

Returning to Milan Design Week for its eighth consecutive year, fashion brand COS teamed up with Architect Arthur Mamou-Mani to create its latest instalment 'Conifera', a beautiful installation that flowed through the courtyard and into the gardens of Palazzo Isimbardi, constructed entirely from 3D-printed bioplastic blocks.

Artemest, the online destination for the very best in Italian design presents 'Stranger Pinks' a collaboration with TED Milano showcasing everything pink to celebrate the year of the woman.