The people and the too many people, the buildings never open to the public, the colorful installations and the rationalist Milan of the great architects of the 20th century. But also the details you may not have noticed: here are the best photos taken by Domus at this year's Design Week.
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 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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Between anniversaries, crafts, new boards, materials, and urban installations, a thoughtful selection to navigate Design Week 2026 and understand where contemporary design is going.
From Fuorisalone to Salone, Milan is explored on foot. A selection of shoes—balancing performance, aesthetics, and cultural signals—to truly read Design Week.
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.
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.
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.
Developed by Pierluigi Fucci, the space transformed by Xinao textiles also offers a chance to discover another of Milan’s hidden courtyards.
Four thousand years of ornaments tell how jewelry has always constructed identity, status and representation, transforming the body into a public language.
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.
