Best of Milan Design Week 2026: Your Essential Guide

Lina Ghotmeh x Mosca Partners Variations - Courtesy of Mosca Partners.

From Polish Modernism to Uzbek crafts, US White House interiors, unconventional chopsticks and 3D-printed pasta. Gear up for Milan Design Week 2026.

Inequalities: Triennale Milano 2025 to explore the role of architecture in a world of disparities

Inequalities. Shapes of Inequalities exhibition - Photo by Alessandro Saletta and Agnese Bedini, DSL Studio. © Triennale Milano.

Inequalities, the Triennale’s 24th International Exhibition, invites us to rethink our future—from urban injustice to microbial design.

Milan Design Week 2025: all the must-visit destinations in town

Design Variations at Milan Design Week 2025 - Courtesy of ©Mosca Partners.

Check out our guide to the best of Milan Design Week 2025! From April 7 to 13, the world’s most influential design event injects creativity into historic courtyards, hidden gardens, former factories, forgotten greenhouses, and stunning palazzos.

Io sono un Drago exhibition at Triennale narrates the true story of Alessandro Mendini

Io Sono Un Drago - The true story of Alessandro Mendini @ La Triennale - Photo by Delfino Sisto Legnani, DSL Studio, © Triennale Milano.

The Triennale Design Museum pays homage to the late architect, designer, and artist Alessandro Mendini with the Io Sono Un Drago retrospective, featuring over 400 works in different formats, materials, and subjects.

Design-for-thought: 12 design exhibitions at Milan Design Week 2024 

We Mediterranean - Courtesy of Paola Carimati.

Design-for-thought in Milan: a tribute to the gentle genius of Alessandro Mendini, a convivial design space to foster dialogue across the Mediterranean Sea, a school kitchen for Nairobi‘s largest slum and the Taiwanese perspective on today’s pressing global issues.

Milan Design Week 2024: 20 must-visit districts and destinations

Re/Creation installation by Lasvit - Image by Lasvit.

Are you ready for the most influential event on Design Planet? Archipanic rounds up the must-visit destinations of Milan Design Week 2024.

Milan Design Week 2023: 15 must-visit design exhibitions

STILL NOW. The Dinner by fferrone - Photo by Fferrone.

Desacralized chandeliers, Elvis’ sofas, repurposed broken furniture, ultramarine tableware, and knitted chairs. 15 must-visit design exhibitions in Milano.

Milan Design Week Foodies Guide 2023: dine and party with style

Maison Veuve Clicquot LA GRANDE DAME 2015 collection - Courtesy of Veuve Clicquot.

Design gin gardens, Japanese tea ceremonies, champagne galleries, and post-industrial grilling experiences. Our Milan Design Week Foodies Guide 2023 is out!

Milan Design Week 2023: top 20 districts and group exhibitions

Everything installation by Nohlab @ MEET. Porta Venezia Design District 2023 - Photo Courtesy of PVDD.

This is going to be a very long post. Archipanic’s founder and editor-in-chief Enrico Zilli mapped Milan Design Week 2023 top destinations. Buckle your belts for design on a roller coaster, a serendipitous marathon of creativity for people with comfy shoes.

The Inventory of Life: Mathieu Lehanneur turns data into humane design

'The Inventory of Life' exhibition by Mathieu Lehanneur at Triennale Milano_ - Photo by Raf studio, Felipe Ribon.

At La Triennale design museum in Milan, French artist and designer Mathieu Lehanneur presents ‘The Inventory of Life,’ an exhibition translating data on our planet’s health and our societies’ happiness into a less mathematical and more emotional language: art and design.

Milan Design Week 2022: 25 must-visit exhibitions and destinations

Masterly 2022 - Image by Studio ZAZI.

Lighting designs inspired by Brutalist churches and temples, a virtuous Babel tower, volcanic rock lightings, anamorphic murales and a design gin garden. The best of Milan Design Week 2022 is on Archipanic.

Fuorisalone 2021: 20 top destinations at Milan Design Week

Design Variations @ Milan Design Week 2021 - Courtesy of Mosca Partners.

Finally, Milan Design Week is back! Supersized beach cabins, a courtyard filled with orchids and a pavilion made from sustainable chairs. Fuorisalone 2021 unveils former military barracks and forgotten bakery factories and unlocks new destinations in the unexplored west side of the city.

Fuorisalone 2019: Milan’s top 25 exhibitions, installations and events

Repubblica del Design debuts at Fuorisalone 2019 - Photo via IG, follow @bovisadesigndistrict.

Rossana Orlandi’s ‘Guiltless Plastic’ project, Google smart installation exploring the psychology of design, a new creative district hosting the very first Republic of Design and more… The very best of Fuorisalone 2019 is on Archipanic!

A CASTIGLIONI: Milan Triennale maps the creative genius of Achille Castiglioni with a major exhibition

A CASTIGLIONI exhibition @ La Triennale of Milan - Photo by Gianluca Di Ioia, © La Triennale di Milano.

On the centenary anniversary of the birth of Achille Castiglioni, La Triennale di Milano invites to venture into the design and architecture-charged synapsis of the Italian Maestro showcasing some of his most iconic designs, theories and values through a path of 20 clusters.

7 must-see temporary architectures on show at Fuorisalone 2018

Altered States Ice Kitchen Island - Image by Alex Lukey.

Stefano Boeri goes to Mars, Arup’s 3D-prints homes while INTERNI Magazine explores millennials’ nomadic lifestyles. Milan Design Week has never been so architectural. We selected 7 must-see temporary architectures on show at Fuorisalone.

7 exhibitions and installations celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ettore Sottsass

London Design Festival 2017 Landmark Project Villa Walala by Camille Walala supported by British Land. Photo by Andy Stagg.

MET Breuer in New York, Milan Triennale, London Design Festival and more… 7 tributes to Ettore Sottsass on his birth 100th anniversary.

10 Quirky events to plunge into Milan Design Week indiest vibe

Seletti: Design Parade

With Milan design week about to kick in, we picked 10 quirky events that shine a light on the alternative side of Fuorisalone: from an occupied slaughterhouse turned into a creative hub to a funky design parade, but also hidden cloisters’ parties and dreaming high-tech furniture.