Exhibitions Expo 2025 Osaka: the SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection debuts in Japan Add to bookmarks SaloneSatellite 2025 - Ph. Ludovica Mangini From 7th to 20th September 2025, the SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection 1998-2025 will feature at Expo 2025 Osaka, boosting the Italy Pavilion's by MCA - Mario Cucinella Architects After making its first stop in Hong Kong in 2024, the SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection 1998-2025 will feature at Expo 2025 Osaka, boosting the Italy Pavilion's by MCA - Mario Cucinella Architects offering with an exhibition that is both narrative and vision, genealogy and manifesto. A selection of 47 products – presented as prototypes at SaloneSatellite, where they were chosen by companies to go into production – testifying to the virtuous dialogue between international creativity and Italian know-how, a pairing that has always defined the nature of the exhibition that has been the creative hub of the Salone del Mobile.Milano for 26 editions. Each piece on display is a microcosm of shared values: innovation, production ethics, formal language and accessibility.“Osaka represents a strategic destination: it is the start of a new chapter in the international roadshow that takes the Salone del Mobile.Milano beyond national and European borders each year, in search of new audiences and new visions,” had to say Maria Porro, President of the Salone del Mobile.Milano, “Embarking in Japan, at Expo 2025 Osaka, with the SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection, is deeply significant: we are narrating the encounter between global creativity and Italian manufacturing, as well as the extraordinary dialogue between two design cultures that both believe in quality, respect for materials, and a balance between form and function. Japan is also an extraordinary creative interlocutor, with which Italy has built a solid bridge over time -- as testified by giants such as Carlo Scarpa, one of the most important architects and designers of the 20th century, capable of translating and interpreting the poetics of Japanese aesthetics, and architects like Tadao Ando and Shigeru Ban, who have looked to Italy as a source of inspiration.”The Commissioner General for Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka, Ambassador Mario Vattani said “Bringing the SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection 1998 – 2025 Exhibition to the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka allows us to showcase the best of Italian manufacturing excellence and international and industrial creativity to the Asian public in general, and to Japan in particular, which has always had a gift for anticipating tastes. Many Japanese designers are involved, including Nendo, Nao Tamura, Makoto Kawamoto and Yuri Himuro. The Expo will feature a vibrant selection from the SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection, which now comprises over 400 products.” Marva Griffin Wilshire, Founder and Curator SaloneSatellite Ambassador of International Relations - Ph. Davide Colombino Curated by Marva Griffin Wilshire, founder and curator of the event, the exhibition is a concrete tribute to the fertile alliance between young talent and Italian companies and perfectly interprets the theme of Expo 2025 Osaka: Designing Future Societies for our Lives. “The choice of products for the SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection 1998–2025. Exhibition, in the Italy Pavilion at the Osaka Expo, focused on those made by Italian companies, to celebrate the enduringly fruitful marriage of international creativity and Italian industry that SaloneSatellite has promoted since its first edition in 1998”, said Marva Griffin.Also on show are three "special pieces," design cameos that are emblematic of the successful collaboration between designers who made their breakthrough at SaloneSatellite and Italian brands, and two products by Italian designers that have caught the eye of foreign companies - Raat (Dongmyung Lighting Co. Ltd) and the MoMA-Museum of Modern Art in New York, respectively - both of which are included in the Collection.The exhibition itinerary, designed by the architects Ricardo Bello Dias, who has always devised the SaloneSatellite layouts, and Hariadna Pinate, is part of the Italy Pavilion "Hangar of Knowledge" conceived by MCA – Mario Cucinella Architects. The exhibition presents the most noteworthy Japanese designers to have emerged at SaloneSatellite lie at the heart of the exhibition, illustrating successful career paths, evolutions that have managed to blend cultural identity with contemporary vision. These include Nendo's Chab for DePadova, an essential and elegant coffee table, as well as his sculptural Koeda coat stand for Cappellini, which translates the encounter between nature and function into an essential sign. The Seasons serving ware, by Nao Tamura for Covo, interprets the natural cycle of the seasons with poetic sensitivity, Giava by Makoto Kawamoto for Aliantedizioni, is a fruit stand with sleek and harmonious lines, and the Kumo blown glass teapot by Takahide Sano for Massimo Lunardon, blends Italian craftsmanship and oriental imagery, while the Cultivate Collection by Yuri Himuro for cc-tapis, is a flatweave carpet created using a novel technique that transforms the act of cutting into story telling; and the Water pendant lamp by the Aatismo collective for Giorgetti reinterprets the theme of water as a vital and formal principle, in a luminous key.The Italian companies involved: Aliantedizioni, Billiani, Caimi, cc-tapis, Cappellini, Capsula Mundi, Covo, Giorgetti, Davide Groppi, De Padova, en&is design, De Castelli, Elite, Foscarini, Flos, FontanaArte, Francolight, Lodes, Luceplan, Massimo Lunardon, Magis, MDF Italia, Martinelli Luce, Mogg, Moroso, OGTM Officine Meccaniche, Pedrali, Ritmonio, Riva1920, Rubelli, Seletti and Tacchini. The designers: Aatismo, Adriano Design, Pierfrancesco Arnone, Felicia Arvid, AZ Design/Andrea Zanini, Enrico Azzimonti & Jordi Pigem, Alessandra Baldereschi, Big-Game, Cristina Celestino, Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel, Carlo Contin, Alessandro Corina and Paolo Stella, Cristophe de la Fontaine & Stefan Diez, en&is/Isabella Lovero and Enrico Bosa, Francesco Faccin, Francesco Forcellini, Francisco Gomez Paz, Davide Groppi, Himuro Design Studio, Zsuzsanna Horvath, Hsiang Han Design, Patrick Jouin, Makoto Kawamoto, Lanzavecchia + Wai, Alessandro Loschiavo, Xavier Lust, Francesco Librizzi, Marcantonio Raimondi Malerba, Benedetta Mori Ubaldini, Satyendra Pakhalé, Mikael Pedersen, Daniel Ribakken, Takahide Sano, Oki Sato/Nendo, Studio Truly Truly, Studioventotto, Studio-if, Nao Tamura, Carlo Tamborini, David Trubridge, Vittorio Venezia/Martinelli Venezia, Voon Wong & Benson Saw, Sebastian Wrong, and Zanellato Bortotto. Read also: How to take part in SaloneSatellite 2026
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