What to expect from the Milan Furniture Fair 2023

Milan furniture fair 2023: the news

There are three important innovations at this edition: the first is that there will be a single exhibition level, with the companies from the upper pavilions (8-12, 16-20) relocated to the lower ones to simplify, improve and enhance the fruition and visit experience.

"We gathered the needs of those who organize and experience the Salone, exhibitors and visitors, with more than 2,300 interviews and thematic working groups", says Maria Porro, president of the Milan Furniture Fair.

"Thus, the idea of an exhibition on a single level to facilitate flows was born and we did an almost 'urbanistic' job on the internal design of the pavilions". The exhibitors will no longer be divided by style, but the offer will be presented based on the target of the companies.

Second big news: the new layout of Euroluce, completely redesigned by the Lombardini22 studio, with a circular route that puts the visitor at the centre, for a simpler and more organic visit, that leaves no exhibitor behind.

Third novelty: the cultural component integrated into the spaces of Euroluce, which will be the true heart of the event.

The numbers of the Milan Furniture Fair 2023

The Milan Furniture Fair 2023 will bring together a total of 1,962 exhibitors, over 550 young talents under 35 and 27 design schools.

The event is divided into: Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition, Workplace3.0, S.Project, Euroluce and SaloneSatellite.

Euroluce, the (real) novelty of this edition

After a four-year absence - the last edition was in 2019 - Euroluce returns, the biennial of light in halls 9-11 and 13-15.

“For Euroluce, we have redesigned the paths by integrating the spaces of the companies with interdisciplinary cultural contents which concern the relationship between light, architecture, art and science”, explains Maria Porro.

“A metamorphosis that in the future will affect the entire Exhibition which has the ambition to contribute to redesigning the exhibition model”.

Euroluce will present itself as The city of lights, enlivened by a very rich cultural offer curated by Beppe Finessi, ranging from contemporary art to photography, from research design to technological experimentation.

A brilliant (and strategic) interdisciplinary proposal that of Finessi, which in an era in which the importance of fairs is questioned, reiterates that the Salone del mobile is an obligatory stop not to be missed.

The Formafantasma are also protagonists, who for Euroluce 2023 have designed Aurore, a large square, an arena for immersive and reflective experiences and a place dedicated to talk.

The couple formed by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin also curated the twelve Constellations, architectural interludes that will host the exhibitions in the exhibition curated by Beppe Finessi.

The creative duo also imagined the Corraini Editori bookshop, a place that doesn't want to be a commercial space, but more of a library, where you can buy the object of desire, but also browse unobtainable volumes and special editions.

SaloneSatellite 2023 is dedicated to design schools

Inside Euroluce, in pavilions 13-15, there will also be the SaloneSatellite, now in its 24th edition, conceived, curated and strongly desired by Marva Griffin.

This year's theme is Design Schools – Universities / Building the (im)possible. Process, Progress, Practice, to underline the important contribution that schools and universities have given and continue to give to the training of new designers and the development of design.

For this reason, the layout of the exhibition spaces has also been renewed, with the 27 schools and universities that will participate in a perimeter ring that embraces the individual designers.

The SaloneSatellite will also pay homage to designers and lighting companies with the special Sate-light exhibition. 1998-2022 SaloneSatellite young designers, with lamps designed by designers who became famous and discovered thanks to the Satellite showcase.

Finally, the great and awaited guest of the SaloneSatellite will be Gaetano Pesce, invited to tell the students the main steps of his long career.