This year the Salone del Mobile in Milan celebrated its 50th anniversary. Fittingly, the mood was buoyant throughout the week-long event as the industry is beginning to pick up again post-recession. Monocle reports from all…
Milan’s I Saloni – the collective name for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile and its associated offshoots such as Salone Ufficio and SaloneSatellite – are the most important events in the design calendar, with over 2,300…
All eyes have been on the Salone, the world's biggest and most important furniture fair, held in Milan. The mood was optimistic and confident, and a scaling back gave rise to a more considered and thoughtful event. In the…
Monocle took to Milan in force for the Salone del Mobile to pick through the stands, showrooms and satellite exhibitions and sum up what's going down in the design world. Design editor Hugo Macdonald reports on the wind of…
This year's Salone Internazionale del Mobile defied the credit crunch with an optimistic mood and a record number of visitors. Sarah Balmond reports on how emerging designers and established brands are responding to turb…
The Milan Furniture Fair may be over but that’s really just the beginning. Manufacturers, buyers, designers and journalists the world over are now ruminating on what they’ve seen, whom they’ve met and, above all, what the…
Il Salone del Mobile, the world’s biggest furniture fair, is a bellwether of the industry and a showcase for new ideas. As brands gear up for this year’s show, Monocle finds out that the immediate future looks promising.
For many of us it’s a case of not being able to see the forest for the trees. For Italy it was more not being able to spot the opportunity for the chairs at this year’s Milan furniture fair.
Thursday 14 April
Fashion week and the furniture fair are Milan’s two biggest calendar events – and both bring traffic to a standstill.
The Milan Furniture Fair, or simply “Salone”, has become one of the biggest industrial design events in the world and brings together brand owners, industrial designers, architects, buyers, the press and clients for five…
The CEO of furniture retailer Wohnbedarf previews the Milan furniture fair, plus a new gallery in Bolzano and a fuel stop in Navarra.
Design roundtable: Salone del Mobile, Monocle¹s design editor talks to those who do, teach and sell design in a special round table on this month's Milan Furniture Fair.
The market war for coffee capsules, Hugo Macdonald discusses the world’s biggest furniture fair in Milan, and author James Robinson on why some nations fail.
During this year's Milan furniture fair, Monocle visited three of the city's most celebrated design galleries. As well as checking out their collections and finding out how their businesses are growing, we talked to the…
Live from Milan: our specials from the Salone del Mobile furniture fair continue as we meet Petter Neby of Punkt, we also sit down with the minds behind Bokja Design, and hear from civil engineer and MIT professor Carlo…
More from the Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan, we talk to John Pawson, Alexander Schärer from USM, Naoko Kubo from Sfera, Philipp Mainzer from e15, and we also digest the results of London Design Museum’s Design…
With record numbers attending Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile, its reputation as the most important design fair was confirmed again. Shuttling across the city, Monocle caught up with the key industry players to get…
Friday 25 September
Today sees the end of Spain’s largest furniture fair, Ideas & Pasión, which is held in Valencia every year.
In this week's edition of The Monocle Weekly, the CEO of Wolff Olins, Karl Heiselman, gives us his thoughts on Brand America now President Obama has taken the reins. We're also joined by Charmian Gooch, director of Global…
Wednesday 13 April
For all the fun of the galleries, warehouse exhibitions and street parties elsewhere in Milan, the vast Rho fairground on the city’s outskirts is where the real business of Salone takes place.
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