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I Saloni: What to Expect

One exhibition will feature a series of rooms, filled with Italian art, design, music, photographs, and clothing, descending back in time chronologically.

Mairi Beautyman -- Interior Design, 4/10/2007 12:00:00 AM

In Milan, the 46th edition of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile (i Saloni) is rising at the New Milan Fairgrounds in Rho. From April 18-23, some 2,500 exhibitors (over 600 from abroad) will showcase furniture, lighting, and furnishing accessories over 2.2 million square feet of exhibition space.

Innovation, technology, project culture, and trends abounds. Sorted by type, items will range from design pieces to reproduction antiques, from single pieces to coordinates, from accessories to sectionals, from classical to modern, from ethnic to designer, to fusion.

Also at the fairgrounds, lighting fair Euroluce, the Salone Internazionale del Complemento d’Arredo (International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition), and the young designer spotlight SaloneSatellite, all held in conjunction with the i Saloni. SaloneSatellite will feature 160 stands, serving 500 young designers—368 from outside Italy.

Special exhibitions include “Room With a View”, mounted in collaboration with the City Council of Milan – Department of Culture at the Palazzo Reale. Open through July 1, this major exhibition will focus on the metaphor of the house and living via a series of rooms filled with Italian art, design, music, photographs, and clothing, descending back in time chronologically for one hundred years. Also on view, "Tales of Light," a light installation conceived by German lighting designer Herbert Cybulska for the mediaeval landmark Loggia dei Mercanti and “A Dream Come True. SaloneSatellite Projects: From Inception to Production,” a 10-year retrospective of past SaloneSatellit talents.

Last year, some 233,000 architects, planners, interior decorators, lighting designers, facility managers, contract managers, specification buyers, wholesalers, specialist retailers, and representatives from the contract sector journeyed to Milan.