Milano Design Week. 8 things we recommend after seeing them, day 6
For this Design Week weekend, we suggest a tour with minimal lines: between historic brands and Fuorisalone newcomers, hidden buildings and design temples.
How to avoid the queue-filled Design Week: we’ll tell you where to go
Gio Ponti’s secret hotel, a medieval theatre, and installations where there’s finally no trace of bad AI: these are the places to go during Milan Design Week if, like you, by 2026 FOMO has gone out of fashion.
The most unlikely pairing of Design Week turns out to be the most effective: Alessi x C.P. Company
The two brands turn an apparently eccentric encounter into a coherent dialogue between industry, material, and process. More than a collaboration, it is a methodological convergence that puts making back at the center.
In the chaos of Design Week, the unexpected refuge exists: Humberto Campana’s “healing” rugs
At Teatro Arsenale, Estùdio Campana's installation for Art de Vivre transforms rugs into a contemplative experience far from the noise of Fuorisalone. The designer tells Domus why it is now urgent to look to nature as a form of healing.
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Goodbye Milan Design Week: it is now Brand Week. But some know how to do it better than others
Nike and Gucci show in different ways what the Milanese week has really become: a device where design is on the verge of extinction. In between, many attempts and few truly convincing visions.
Fuorisalone 2026. 8 things we saw and recommend for day 5
During Design Week, you also need a map of places to pause. Between hidden gardens, inhabitable micro-hotels, oversized carousels, and installations that speak of a return to nature, here are the addresses we recommend.
Design Week: a tea house on top of Torre Velasca—and a perfect reason to visit
For two days during Milan Design Week, a temporary tea house by Cromo opens the terrace of Torre Velasca to the public, transforming the BBPR-designed landmark into a space suspended between ritual, design, and a new urban perspective.
At Design Week, there’s a bench that can become anything: Smarin’s experiment at Base Milano
Not just to look at: at Base Milano, design gets active. Studio Smarin's modular system transforms the Ground Hall on the ground floor into a collective space between experimentation, economic sustainability and new forms of sharing.
If you are an architect, this is your Design Week: Zaha Hadid Architects, Lina Ghotmeh, but also Gae Aulenti and Torre Velasca
Amid large-scale installations by star architects, Milanese studios, and design archives exceptionally open for just one night, here’s where to go during Design Week if architecture is what you do.
Milan Design Week. 8 things we recommend after seeing them, day 4
It’s entirely possible to reach Thursday of Design Week already feeling exhausted. That’s why the installations, events, and major exhibitions we’re recommending today work like a big, colorful shot of caffeine.
A radical mini-house designed by Jean-Benjamin Maneval in the 1960s is up for sale
In France, it's possible to purchase one of Jean-Benjamin Maneval's “bulles”, a manifesto of the radical ideals of the 1960s that blends technological utopia, industrial design and a yearning for freedom.
Milan Design Week 2026: an insider’s guide to what really matters this year
An insider’s guide to Milan Design Week 2026: what’s actually changing across new geographies, strategic returns, standout brands, and a Salone that has chosen to consolidate and redefine its role.
Only have 3 hours? Milan Design Week for when you’re short on time
After three days of seeing everything, here’s our tightly edited selection of what you shouldn’t miss if you want to experience the Fuorisalone but have very, very little time.
You can now adopt a designer kitten—just head to Toiletpaper during Milan Design Week
Toiletpaper’s “house for animals” is a small, joyful, hyper-colorful oasis within the chaos of the Fuorisalone. But it’s also a tribute to an extraordinary artist who, after working as a war photographer, unexpectedly became the world’s most famous cat photographer.
At Fuorisalone 2026, there are 10 unmissable large-scale installations transforming Milan
From monumental courtyards to cloisters, from historic swimming pools to university spaces: here are ten Fuorisalone 2026 installations transforming Milan during the days of Design Week.
Fuorisalone 2026. 8 things we saw and recommend for day 3
Wednesday is the perfect moment to discover Milan in ways you’ve never seen before. Have you ever been to the sixteenth floor of Torre Velasca? Or let yourself be captivated by the cloisters of San Simpliciano?
This former factory on Via Padova is open to the public for the first time during Fuorisalone
Leli Rolling Bearings reopens for Design Week 2026: more than 50 international designers and a sculptural sound system transform an unseen industrial space into one of this edition's most interesting revelations.
We went up Torre Velasca for tea: what Milan’s most coveted Design Week tea house is really like
Cromo’s temporary tea house, open only for the first two days of Fuorisalone, may be the last chance to see Milan from the top of the BBPR tower. Here are the photos shot by Domus for those who won’t make it.
In Montreal they are building a city inside nature
The Biodiversity Corridor designed by Andreas Kipar transforms 450 hectares into a living infrastructure: a green and blue network that brings ecosystems, animals, and people back into the urban space — and which the designer recounts firsthand to Domus.
Milan Design Week 2026. 8 things we saw and recommend for day 2
Tuesday is when the week truly comes alive: between installations that promise calm and spaces that demand attention, Milan confirms itself as a sprawling laboratory where finding your bearings is increasingly difficult—and necessary.
Villa Pestarini opens and immediately sells out. Domus takes you inside
The villa designed by Franco Albini, one of the venues selected by Alcova for Milan Design Week 2026, has opened to the public for the first time, but not everyone will be able to experience it.
A sounding stone architecture by Bang & Olufsen and Antolini at Milan Design Week
The Danish audio brand and the Italian natural stone specialist debut Beosound Haven, a new outdoor speaker, at a joint installation running April 20 to 26 in Milan.
In Milan, a secret collection opens to the public for two days
During miart on 18 and 19 April, the Fondazione Fiera Milano will open its contemporary art collection to the public. Guided tours will be held inside the historic Milanese Palazzina degli Orafi building, revealing a body of works that is usually inaccessible.
Fuorisalone. 8 things we actually saw and you should too
The wait is over: Milan Design Week has begun. From deconstructed yurts and mock hotels to pools filled with water and plastic balls, eight highlights trace how design is transforming Milan—both within and beyond its districts.
Milan Design Week 2026: instruction to truly understand it
Between anniversaries, crafts, new boards, materials, and urban installations, a thoughtful selection to navigate Design Week 2026 and understand where contemporary design is going.
Shoes are the real stars of Milan Design Week. Which ones did you choose?
From Fuorisalone to Salone, Milan is explored on foot. A selection of shoes—balancing performance, aesthetics, and cultural signals—to truly read Design Week.
Park and Nervi’s unknown masterpiece in Milan: “As architects, we have a duty to act as cultural mediators”
After years of questionable renovations, Park spoke to Domus about the retrofitting of Palazzo Galbani during our visit to the construction site. For just four days, part of the building will be open to the public during Paris Internationale.
Toshiko Mori wins the 2026 Gold Medal for Architecture
The Japanese-born, US-based architect, who served as a guest editor of Domus in 2023, becomes the first woman ever to receive the award. It also marks the long-awaited return of architecture as the honored discipline — and not by chance.
Sony’s new flagship earbuds are a triumph of form over function
The WF-1000XM6 promise ergonomics, adaptability, and comfort in the press release. But in reality, they return to being visible, present—almost intrusive: an object that no longer hides, and in doing so reopens a design question that seemed settled.
Xinao Cashmere becomes an installation at Milan Design Week
Developed by Pierluigi Fucci, the space transformed by Xinao textiles also offers a chance to discover another of Milan’s hidden courtyards.
Jewellery is not decoration: it is what constructs the body. One exhibition tells the story well
Four thousand years of ornaments tell how jewelry has always constructed identity, status and representation, transforming the body into a public language.
Ai Weiwei is coming to Milan Design Week 2026: here’s the project
With About Silk, Ai Weiwei marks his first foray into furnishing textiles, presenting a site-specific work at Fuorisalone that uses silk as a symbolic material bridging East and West.