The Salone del Mobile.Milano events programme

Through the Forgotten Architecture experience, Bianca Felicori explores a selection of iconic and significant buildings in Milan, shaping an urban itinerary that celebrates the vision of the great masters of architecture.

Through COSE Journal, Giulia Nardi reflects on independent publishing as a curatorial and research-based practice. The talk explores how a magazine can construct narratives from objects, images, and everyday environments, turning editorial work into a space for observation, storytelling, and dialogue across different disciplines and perspectives.

This talk presents the creative process behind NONSENSE, highlighting an open and experimental approach to publishing. Naomi Accardi-Talleyrand and Federico Paviani discuss how editorial design and collaboration can redefine formats and languages, challenging the conventions of traditional magazines and visual narratives.

This talk introduces Holiday Interiors and Gardens, a first issue that expands Holiday’s editorial universe into interiors and gardens. Edouard Martin Rilhac discusses how photography and writing construct narratives across eras, styles, and cultures, turning living into a journey and publishing into a tool for connecting places and imaginaries.

With its launch in 2027, the first edition of Salone Contract marks a new phase for the sector. Why has Contract become an urgent topic in today's global landscape? As economic pressures intensify, sustainability requirements evolve, and vulnerabilities in supply chains persist, Contract is emerging as a catalyst for change. This panel will examine the sector's systemic risks — economic, environmental, and operational — and explore why these pressures call for transformation today. Viewed through the lens of Contract, how can these challenges reveal latent possibilities for innovation, resilience, and new forms of value creation?

Since his early exhibition at Triennale Milano in 1985–86, Rem Koolhaas has operated across multiple roles — architect, curator, writer, designer — going beyond the boundaries that traditionally separate these disciplines. With the founding of the dedicated research arm AMO in the late 1990s alongside the architectural practice OMA, Koolhaas expanded the scope of an architecture office: engaging clients at vastly different speeds and scales, moving between the tangible and the ephemeral, the conceptual and the commercial. Over the decades, this dual practice has developed a sustained engagement with design in different forms — from catwalk scenography and homeware collections to furniture systems and exhibition pavilions. In this lecture, Koolhaas shares his current preoccupations — tracing the threads that connect his most recent work to the creations that have shaped his career.  

Introduction and Presentation by David Gianotten: OMA's ongoing observations on the Contract sector, Salone Contract Masterplan.

The Contract sector operates within an ecosystem that brings together the ambitions of designers, manufacturers, and operators. When these players collaborate, they can combine expertise and resources to create furnishings, interiors, and architectures capable of sustaining high-quality built environments over the long term. What are the fundamental pillars that define the current and future landscape of Contract? What visions and competencies shape this ever-evolving field? This discussion focuses on the client, the manufacturer, the operator, and the emerging protagonist of the marine sector. It explores how the sector's founding pillars align across the entire project lifecycle — from initial strategic thinking through to realisation — and how these intersections can translate into concrete operational frameworks. The panel ultimately asks: How do these pillars integrate to form a resilient, future-oriented Contract ecosystem?

This talk introduces Ark Journal’s editorial approach, where architecture, design, and visual arts are interwoven through a humanistic lens. Mette Barfod discusses how the magazine builds narratives from lived spaces, highlighting the relationship between materiality, light, and identity, and offering an intimate and contemporary perspective on living.

In conversation with Tosin Oshinowo, Oshinowo Studio

Oshinowo draws on her experience of architectural practice in Africa, alongside curatorial work on innovation under conditions of scarcity, to redefine architecture and urbanism from a global perspective and to design beyond abundance. By critically engaging with the architecture and urbanism of the continent, her lecture challenges conventional design paradigms, advocating for an approach that is attentive to the cultural and climatic imperatives of the twenty-first century.

Tosin Oshinowo, Architect and Curator
Moderated by Amanda Ferber, Founder, CEO & Publisher | Architecture Hunter

This talk introduces the editorial concept behind C Magazine, where each issue revolves around a single chair. Through research, essays, and visual storytelling, the publication expands a design object into a broader cultural narrative, connecting history, culture, and contemporary practices across global and interdisciplinary contexts.

In Conversation with David Barragán

The talk explores an architectural approach rooted in local reality and territory, proposing a design centred on the sustainability of life and cultural identity. The discussion focuses on experimenting with materials, vernacular knowledge, and the matter that anchors us to the site, seeking alternatives to steel and concrete that cause a loss of identity. It will highlight the value of constructive knowledge transmitted through oral tradition and artisanal craftsmanship. Architecture is presented as matter, context, and collective action. David Barragán of Al Borde studio will share case studies from Ecuador and abroad, demonstrating how project diversity can foster local development and social innovation. This approach involves adapting design to local conditions using materials like earth, bamboo, and wood, while reclaiming ancestral knowledge to face environmental crises.

David Barragán, Co-Founder Al Borde
Moderated by Marcela Fibbiani, Design Journalist, 90+10 

In this talk, Colin Chee introduces Never Too Small and his perspective on contemporary living. From New York to Japan, he shares projects that transform compact spaces into thoughtful and functional homes. The talk also highlights designers, artists, and experimental practices that are reshaping urban living to be more creative, accessible, and human.

Home – Place – Feeling

What does the ideal home look like? It is a concept that changes over time, but not too much. For millennia, a house has been a house. And yet its form and functions adapt to the outside world. They open up, when the time is right, or close to protect like a shelter from the world outside, when that is the better choice. A monologue by Matteo Caccia will explore the evolution of the concept of home throughout human history and the history of design. Dimensions, function, divisions. A sentimental journey through the most 

Performance by Matteo Caccia, Author and Storyteller 
Introduction by Davide Coppo, Head of Special Projects Rivista Studio e Valentina Ardia, Editor in Chief Rivista Studio
Curated by Rivista Studio