Inside Salone del Mobile 2025: The Cultural Installations Redefining Design
Discover the cultural heart of Salone del Mobile 2025 with THECORE. Explore installations by Pierre-Yves Rochon, Robert Wilson, Paolo Sorrentino, and Sou Fujimoto. A journey through design, light, and sustainability.
Presented by INTERCERAMIC
Part of THECORE’s The Wave of Sustainable Design
Fiera Milano, Rho | April 8–13, 2025
This year, Salone del Mobile.Milano transcends the boundaries of a traditional trade fair. With its rich Cultural Program, the 2025 edition presents a series of installations that weave together design, architecture, cinema, and performance. These immersive experiences—crafted by globally renowned creatives—reflect on our human condition, the passage of time, memory, and light.
As we continue The Wave of Sustainable Design, THECORE takes you inside the four unmissable installations that will define the emotional and artistic core of Salone 2025.
Villa Héritage by Pierre-Yves Rochon
Pavilions 13–15
Luxury becomes narrative in Villa Héritage, an immersive journey through Italian tradition and timeless elegance. Curated by Pierre-Yves Rochon, this installation reinterprets domestic spaces with a quiet sophistication that honors craftsmanship and the emotional resonance of interiors.
“I wanted to create a space where the past and future coexist—where design carries the memory of tradition but feels alive in the present.” – Pierre-Yves Rochon
Pierre-Yves Rochon. Villa Héritage
Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025 ©PYR
Mother by Robert Wilson
Museo Pietà Rondanini, Castello Sforzesco
Set within the haunting beauty of the Pietà Rondanini Museum, Mother by Robert Wilson explores the power of light, silence, and Michelangelo’s unfinished masterpiece. The installation becomes a sensory journey—a performance of space, emotion, and transcendence.
“Silence speaks. The Pietà speaks. Design is not only seen, it’s felt.” – Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson. Mother – Preliminary Site Visit
Museo Pietà Rondanini, Castello Sforzesco, November 2024 ©Archivio Change Performing Arts
La Dolce Attesa by Paolo Sorrentino
Pavilions 22–24
Cinema and design meet in La Dolce Attesa, a dreamlike experience by Academy Award-winner Paolo Sorrentino. Through the surreal and poetic lens of “waiting,” visitors are invited into a world of visual storytelling and suspended time.
Paolo Sorrentino. La dolce attesa – Concept Sketch
Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025 ©Margherita Palli
The Forest of Space by Sou Fujimoto
Euroluce Arena, Pavilion 2
Nature and light take center stage in The Forest of Space, a biophilic installation by Sou Fujimoto. The Japanese architect transforms the Euroluce Arena into a poetic forest, where architecture, lighting, and nature converge to provoke reflection and awe.
Sou Fujimoto. The Forest of Space – Original Concept Sketch
Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025 ©Sou Fujimoto Architect
Why This Cultural Program Matters
Each of these projects invites us to slow down, reflect, and reconnect—with our spaces, our senses, and each other. At a time when sustainability must include emotional intelligence and deeper cultural awareness, these installations expand the definition of design.
THECORE will be reporting live from Milan with daily updates, exclusive interviews, and visual stories as part of The Wave of Sustainable Design.
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