Next year’s Salone del Mobile is already fully booked, more than four months ahead of the show.
The 2025 show, its 63rd edition, takes place from 8-13 April as it follows up on this year’s record-breaking event.
As part of the events around the show acclaimed director and playwright Robert Wilson will present Mother, dedicated to Michelangelo’s unfinished statue, and one of the city’s most iconic works of art.
Mother is the first chapter of the programme for the Euroluce year: a homage to Michelangelo’s work ‘staged’ at the Museo della Pietà – Castello Sforzesco – in a dialogue with Stabat Mater, the musical by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Wilson is known for his mastery in the use of light in his works, in which sound, images and movement merge to create a creative, inimitable and rigorous language.
‘We have always thought of the Salone as a fundamental tool for offering opportunities for growth and development to our industry, creating intercultural dialogues, bringing disciplines closer together, illuminating Milan. When planning the 2025 edition of the trade fair, we once again carefully assessed which themes and contents might ignite a spark to further boost a sector which, thanks to the international powers of attraction of the Salone, transforms Milan into the World Capital of Design every year. Imagination has always driven change. This is why, once again this year, the Salone has decided to reinvest the results of a record-breaking 2024 edition in a cultural programme of the highest order, part of which we are excitedly anticipating today – ‘Mother’, a project of rare intensity that sees us working alongside Robert Wilson once again,’ says Maria Porro, Salone del Mobile.Milano president.
Image: Robert Wilson workshop at Change Performing Arts, Museo Pietà Rondanini, November 2024 ©Archivio Change Performing Arts
