The experience begins in the Porta Venezia bastions with TOILETPAPER's site-specific installation in collaboration with Prima Assicurazioni. It then moves on to Google's large intervention, brand collaborations with international artists and designers such as Marcantonio with Škoda Auto, Juliana Lima Vasconcellos with Lavazza, Stephen Burks for Calico Wallpaper, Matteo Cibic for Fondazione Luigi Rovati, Finemateria with Park Associati. These are the must-see events in Porta Venezia during Fuorisalone 2025.
Porta Venezia Design District 2025: No Boundaries Design. To Create, one must first question everything
For the 2025 edition, the Porta Venezia Design District presents No Boundaries Design. To Create, one must first question everything. In an age when the boundary between physical and digital reality is dissolving, when the boundaries between art, science, technology and nature are constantly renegotiating, design is an act of radical questioning, a field of tension between what exists and what could exist.No Boundaries Design is not just a theme, but a manifesto: to create, one must first question everything.
Porta Venezia Design District 2025: No Boundaries Design. To Create, one must first question everything
Through innovative installations, materials and processes, the exhibition narrative translates Gray's thinking into experience: the object is never static, the space is never definitive, the user is never passive.
Porta Venezia Design District installations
For the first time the district is dressed by PRIMA ASSICURAZIONI, as Main Partner, which for the occasion collaborates with the visionary creative studio TOILETPAPER enveloping the entire district with the iconic snake pattern. An out-of-the-ordinary participation that connects different worlds by breaking down all boundaries. The artistic intervention will reinterpret urban spaces starting from the famous Bastioni di Porta Venezia through the recognizable and impactful visual language of TOILETPAPER's iconic snakes to represent the tale of a fast and dynamic reality that “changes skin” but remains consistent with itself. Also at the MEET Digital Culture Center - which reconfirms itself as the district's headquarter - where Realia by Sabrina Ratté, a visual artist from Québéc, will be on display, technology and biology, two seemingly distant realities, come together to redefine our relationship with the environment, offering a unique sensory and conceptual experience in synergy with HAIKI+. A journey between nature and artifice, memory and future, in search of new ways of inhabiting and imagining the world.Realia by Sabrina Ratté
Via Vittorio Veneto 2 The tech giant GOOGLE, inside Garage 21, with Making the Invisible Visible sheds light on art and design as acts of alchemy that bring ideas to life, a project co-created by Google's Chief Design Officer of Consumer Devices, Ivy Ross, and her design team in collaboration with light and water artist Lachlan Turczan, which aims to show how abstract ideas are translated into tangible forms. Light, typically a fleeting presence, takes on a material permanence, transforming into something that can be touched, inhabited, and felt. Light bends, flows, or solidifies into structured planes, responding with fluid dynamism.
Making the Invisible Visible
Via Archimede 26 Driven by curiosity, Škoda Auto transforms exploration into an immersive experience, brought to life through the creativity of Italian artist Marcantonio. In the courtyard of PAC, Milan’s Pavilion of Contemporary Art, sculptures, and technology merge to transform the space into a dreamlike landscape. A fantastic road trip unfolds through suspended paths, symbolic creatures, and poetic landscapes, where animal and nature-inspired statues metaphorically embody the essence of the new all-electric Elroq. These dynamic installations, enhanced by exciting technology, bring the car’s characteristics to life through emotion and discovery.
THIS WAY
Via Palestro 14 At Milan Design Week 2025, Lavazza is presenting the site-specific installation Source of Pleasure by Brazilian architect and designer Juliana Lima Vasconcellos, a multi-sensory journey that triggers all the senses as it explores the universe of coffee. Installed at the centre of the evocative courtyard in Palazzo del Senato, home of the Milan State Archives in the heart of Porta Venezia Design District, Source of Pleasure is a monumental structure characterised by a collected, almost sacred mood and a diameter of 18 metres, reminiscent of coffee tones from the very first glance.
SOURCE OF PLEASURE by Juliana Lima Vasconcellos
Palazzo del Senato - Via Senato 10 A new fragrance and an immersive installation for the debut of MARC-ANTOINE BARROIS, in the historic Salone dei Tessuti, designed by French designer Antoine Bouillot. Inspired by the new fragrance, the installation combines olfactory art and experiential design to engage visitors in an interpretation of optimism and hope. The MISSION ALDEBARAN installation will transform Milan’s historic Salone dei Tessuti into a dreamlike environment where light breaks through darkness.
Mission Aldebaran
Salone dei Tessuti - Via San Gregorio 29 The Istituto dei Ciechi in Via Vivaio 7 hosts two installations: "POETICA" by Wonderglass & Calico Wallpaper and "Particulare" by Calico Wallpaper with Stephen Burks Man Made. POETICA reimagines glass and paper as vessels for memory and imagination, blending materiality with craft in a poetic narrative. PARTICULAIRE is inspired by souvenirs collected during one’s travels, a global tapestry of stories through
a synthesis of art, craft, and community.
POETICA and Particulare
Istituto dei Ciechi - Via Vivaio 7 Two-Fold Silence is the 6:AM studio's first solo exhibition, offering a unique opportunity for visitors to immerse themselves in the creative universe of the brand founded by Edoardo Pandolfo and Francesco Palù. The exhibition, to be held inside the historic former public bathrooms of Piscina Cozzi in Milan, will bring to life an evocative space that, once used as public showers and abandoned for decades, will be transformed through design. On display will be new lighting and object collections by 6:AM, alongside with a selection of past creations. A mysterious and esoteric journey that will not only allow visitors to discover the products but also explore the brand's creative process.
Two-Fold Silence Exhibition
Piscina Cozzi - Viale Tunisia 35 Important news for Convey as it consolidates its role as an international platform for design. A new location in the heart of Porta Venezia that extends to two projects such as Convey Bar and Convey
Market. Also, for the first time, Convey introduces the concept of guest designers, expanding its curating beyond brands, thanks to the exclusive participation of Sunfish, a New York design studio
one of the most interesting international emerging talents. Lakapoliesis (2024) is a project that redefines the traditional relationship between animals and plants, reversing its anthropocentric perspective. Inspired by the illustrated maps of Alexander Humboldt and the writings of Jagadish Chandra Bose and Monica Gagliano, Cibic creates large-format, three-dimensional chromatic maps and vegetal compositions, aspiring to describe the emotions and sentiments of the plant world. Protagonists of the exhibition are wood sculptures, recycled aluminium, marble dust and knotted wool, giving form to a new “vegetal nomenclature" through an original and asymmetrical narrative. In the garden, two large-format, recycled-aluminium sculptures – created with the support of the CIAL (National Aluminium Packaging Consortium) – tell the story of the immortality of this material and its capacity for rebirth in a multiplicity of forms. Alongside these new works, the exhibition in the Art Pavilion includes an excerpt from Dermapoliesis (2017).
Lakapoliesis di Matteo Cibic
Fondazione Rovati - Corso Venezia 52 For the first time, Wittmann’s presence at Milan Design Week will be centered in the vibrant Porta Venezia district. The renowned Maria Calderara space on Via Lazzaretto will serve as the backdrop for an airy installation showcasing groundbreaking new designs from some of today’s most influential contemporary designers, such as Jaime Hayon, Sebastian Herkner, and Federica Biasi.
In a dedicated gallery space adjacent to the main installation, Wittmann will present a carefully curated exhibition, tracing nearly 130 years of design excellence. This immersive retrospective will celebrate the brand’s rich history and its most defining creative milestones.
Cultivating comfort
Maria Calderara Showroom - Via Lazzaretto 15 Park Associati presents PAFF PAFF - Liminal Spaces for Sensorial Rituals, an installation that explores wool as a symbolic element to create a primordial space. Through the senses, this environment invites visitors to rediscover an intimate and welcoming dimension, offering a moment of rest amidst the frenzy of everyday life. The installation was designed and developed by the design studio Finemateria at the invitation of Park Associati, in collaboration with cc-tapis and QuadroDesign. The work invites visitors to experience a moment of regenerating idleness, surrounded by soft surfaces and natural sounds.
PAFF PAFF - Liminal Spaces for Sensorial Rituals
Park Hub - Via Garofalo 31 GROHE, a leading global brand for complete bathroom solutions and kitchen fittings, is returning to Milan Design Week 2025 with a new immersive experience in one of Milan’s most historic locations: The Garden Senato. Located at Via Senato 14 in Milan’s fashion district, the garden blends historical charm with contemporary design, making it a high-profile venue for cultural events and exhibitions—the ideal venue for the GROHE Aqua Gallery. Conceived by the in-house LIXIL Global Design and Brand Identity team, the installation seamlessly blends indoor and outdoor elements, offering a unique gallery experience. Nestled within the secluded garden is an Aqua Atelier space for reflection and the creation of an Aqua Poem. More than just a place for refreshment, the adjacent Aqua Bar serves as a powerful statement on sustainability: constructed from recycled bottles, it highlights the environmental impact of single-use plastics and the growing issue of water pollution.
GROHE Aqua Gallery
Garden Senato - Via Senato 14 Vanadio23, a Milan-based artist and designer, presents P0RN0 ROMANTIKO, an installation that plays with the boundaries between innocence and provocation, between the visible and the hidden. The exhibition consists of a series of miniature ceramics, displayed within glass cases. The images painted on them are only revealed through a magnifying glass—an essential tool to unveil the most intimate and unsettling details of the works.At first glance, the depicted scenes seem to take inspiration from traditional rural and pastoral iconography. However, upon closer inspection, hyper-realistic details loaded with erotic tension emerge, merging aesthetics and provocation in a visual and emotional short circuit.
P0RN0 ROMANTIKO
Via Giorgio Jan 3 At Milan Design Week, USM Modular Furniture presents a new element that expands the iconic modular furniture system, reinforcing its playful character and versatility. “Connected by Our Dreams” invites visitors into five immersive spaces to engage with the new product. Using colour, scale, sound, and texture, these dreamlike worlds will evoke wonder, flip reality, and provoke new ways of thinking about modularity.
Connected by Our Dreams
Viale Piave 27 On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2025, the historic Italian faucet brand Zucchetti opens the doors of its new showroom at Corso Venezia 29, in the beating heart of the city, and unveils its new products for the bathroom: a collection of faucets designed by the renowned Studio Yabu Pushelberg, a refined series of shower heads designed by Francesco and Alberto Meda, and an innovative shower system developed by Matteo Fiorini with Studio Lys, formerly in charge of the brand's creative direction. The new showroom, opened to the public for the first time during Milan Design Week 2025, is configured as a true “container of wonders,” a Wunderkammer in which the product is highlighted, revealing every detail.
Cabinets of curiosities
Corso Venezia 29 Galerie Zippenfenig brings the Viennese design scene to Milan. As the first independent show for new Austrian design during the Salone del Mobile 2025, VIENNA VIBES opens up a multifaceted perspective on a design movement that is going its own way with a drive for independence. “The exhibition focuses on a wide variety of young, creative trends from Vienna, between readymade and elaborate arts and cra6s, with a penchant for the ornament in the tradition of Art Nouveau to its complete rejection, but always in the struggle with its own Viennese identity,” explains gallery owner Markus Zippenfenig.
VIENNA VIBES
Boutique Erotika - Via Melzo 19
