Aurea, an Architectural Fiction

  • icon 21 APR – 26 APR 2026
  • icon 09:00 – 18:00
  • icon Pavilions 13–15, Fiera Milano Rho
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An immersive and narrative installation at the heart of the Salone. An imaginary hotel that reinvents the codes of luxury and hospitality as a theatrical and sensory
experience. Aurea, an Architectural Fiction, in pavilions 13–15 of the Salone del Mobile.Milano, has been designed as space to be experienced slowly. Conceived by Maison Numéro 20, a Parisian studio founded by Oscar Lucien Ono, the project takes the form of an imaginary hotel, divided into a series of rooms.

Each room introduces a subtle variation of light, matter and atmosphere. Visitors move around freely, following a logic built on perceptions rather than functions. The spaces open up one after the other, like episodes, allowing an intimate and almost suspended dimension to emerge, in which design does not impose itself, but accompanies. More than a place, Aurea is an architectural fiction: a spatial story in which the visitor becomes a traveller. The name recalls the Latin aureus, "golden", and the golden ratio, the universal principle of harmony. Here, light, matter and composition intertwine in a continuous balance, in which light becomes a design material, capable of shaping volumes, revealing surfaces and building a fully sensory experience.