In our previous post we mainly looked at colours from the design week in Milan, but now we will look at details that stood out.
Art Nouveau
I actually first heard it from my Finnish colleague Susanna who said that there is a lot of design inspirered by nature. Romantic, if you will. And I could not agree more. I totally see a lot of design being inspirered by nature in a new way. And it is dreamy.
This chair with the outline of a swan. By Florencia Bacci. It looks almost like the dress popartist Björk wore at some gala a few years back.
This faucet by Dornbracht with birdwings to control the water.
Faye Toogood made a new tableware for Noritake and it looks almost 100 years old.
Repetition of birds at Louis Vuitton.
Floor by Patrizia Urqiola for Elle Decor Alchemia
You can of course talk about the birch carpet at IKEA being inspirered from nature and made into patterns.
This kind of fits the art nouveau theme. This is a sofa table that looks like a pond. Impossible to use, but very romantic.
Proper art nouveau at Artemest. Can we expect more of this in settings 2026?
Pillow sofas
Sofas are changing. I have talked about it before and we can see that the way we sit is changing. We don’t sit in a straight line anylonger so of course the sofa should change accordingly.
Here a sofa and curvy sofa by Meritalia at Rossana Orlandi.
Same kind of curvy and soft sofa by Lara Bohinc.
Aline Asmar d’Amman at Rossana Orlandi.
The Patricia Urqiola sofa for Moroso at Elle Decoration.
Sofa at Kartell.
At Artemest
This sofa is kind of reversed. Not sitting back to back, but rather facing eachother. But no straight line watching tv.
Meritalia
At Salone Satellite. Not really a pillow sofa, but it still challanges the way we sit in the livingroom. By Ruya Akyol.
Matte and shiny
I have been look at the official press pictures of most companies exhibiting in Milan. And the press pictures don’t necessarily tell the same story as I saw in the city. When walking around I noted that a lot of pieces and installations combined matte and shiny. A few years back, everything had the same “shine”. Now it is complementing eachother. Matte with shine.
At Thonet and the Jil Sanders exhibition they were mixing piano lacquer with matte leather.
Shiny legs and matte seat. At Cassina.
Mix of shiny and matte at these stools at Boon Room.
Trying to capture the extremely shiny cabinet against the backdrop curtain. And yes, I think we will mainly see this mix of shiny and matte in settings, not necessarily the actual products.
Matte textile and shiny lacquer on the legs. Here at Louis Vuitton.
Shiny base and matte table top. At Zanotta.
Last year’s design but back again. By Faye Toogood at Poltrona Frau.
Shiny base again and a matte top.
Leather
Very often a material is used more often. Something kind of becomes the “it material” and you see everyone is using that. We have seen wood for a long while. Is leather taking the lead?
A huge leather sofa at Boon Room.
A huge 70s leather sofa at dESIGN store.
Leather stools and side tables by Lara Bohinc for Unikqa. The leather pieces almost looks like feathers.
A proper and “normal” sofa but in leather. And I must say that the cognac colour was really dominant at Milan Design Week. Here at Poltrona Frau.
Tables
Experiment with shapes on tables. I saw a lot of different kinds of tables. Are tables the new center piece?
Here at Isola and Convey.
This table top at Cassina.
These legs – also at Cassina.
These table edges at Cassina.
Relaunch of table by Castiglioni for Meritalia.
Colours, colours, colours. Talenti Living.
This kind of bootcut jeans bottom-shape was also everywhere. Here at Zanat. By Naoto Fukasawa.
Tables with a nostalgic look and strong identity at Kettal.
Of course a lot of glass. We saw that already last year.
But in general – lots of colours on tables.
Last table. I really liked this inlay at Salone Satellite by Luis Marie.
Fluffy
A small detail. May not explode, but funny to see how many things got fluffy.
At Nilufar Depot.
Fluffy sofa at Moroso.
Fluffy at Palazzo Correnti.
At Palazzo Litta.
And of course at CC Tapis.