Renaissance of the Real — USM × Annabelle Schneider

USM's Milan exhibitions have become one of the most anticipated moments of design week. This year, a collaboration with Swiss artist Annabelle Schneider wraps the steel Haller grid in a breathing textile membrane, a quiet conceptual counterpoint to digital saturation. Audio engineer Devon "OJAS" Turnbull runs vinyl listening sessions on weekday afternoons. The kind of slow, atmospheric work that feels like an antidote to the week's pace.

Dates: April 20 (press preview), April 21 to 26, 2026
Times: 10am to 7pm
Location: Fondazione Luigi Rovati, Corso Venezia 52, Milan
RSVP: Open to public

Light as Medium — Bocci

The Bocci apartment is one of the most beautiful interiors in Milan, permanent list. Co-founder Omer Arbel takes it over this year with new and reimagined works, curated by David Alhadeff of The Future Perfect. The show treats light as a material, perceptual and architectural, and lets it unfold room by room.

Dates: April 19 to 26, 2026
Location: Bocci Milan, Via Rovani 20, Milan
RSVP: Open to public

Alcova

Franco Albini's rationalist Villa Pestarini opens to the public for the first time. That alone would justify the trip. That Alcova has filled it, alongside the Baggio Military Hospital, with Faye Toogood, Patricia Urquiola, and the Shakti Design Residency is almost indulgent. Alcova consistently finds Milan's most beautiful off-the-beaten-path spaces, and this year they've outdone themselves.

Dates: During Milan Design Week
Location: Baggio Military Hospital, Via Giovanni Labus 15, and Villa Pestarini, Via Mogadiscio 2/4, Milan
RSVP: Open to public

Silhouettes — Muller Van Severen × Apartamento

Clean, sophisticated, playful. Muller Van Severen in three words. Fifteen life-size aluminum candle holders anchor the show, marking fifteen years of their practice. Apartamento runs their annual bookshop alongside, with the launch of their new monograph, A Lot of Work. Two references we return to constantly, in the same room.

Dates: April 19 to 26, 2026
Times: 10am to 8pm
Location: Ordet, Via Filippino Lippi 4, Milan
RSVP: Open to public

Hermès

Hermès presents a new furniture piece alongside objects and home textiles from its home universe, in a scenography designed by Charlotte Macaux Perelman, architect and artistic director for Hermès Maison, with Alexis Fabry. The Hermès Maison presentations have become one of the most considered set designs of the week.

Dates: April 20 to 26, 2026
Location: La Pelota Jai Alai, Via Palermo 10, Milan

Nilufar Grand Hotel & Casa Magica

Two shows across both Nilufar venues this year, because Nina Yashar isn't doing anything halfway. At Nilufar Depot, Nilufar Grand Hotel reinterprets the language of hospitality through immersive interiors and collectible design, the blurring between home, hotel, and gallery that Yashar does better than anyone. At Nilufar Via della Spiga, Casa Magica, curated by Valentina Ciuffi of Studio Vedèt with set design by Space Caviar, explores the home as symbolic, ritual space.

Dates: April 20 to 26, 2026
Location: Nilufar Depot, Viale Vincenzo Lancetti 34, and Nilufar Via della Spiga, Via della Spiga 32, Milan
RSVP: Yes. Registration required

Prada Frames — In Sight

Prada's annual symposium, curated by Formafantasma. One of the more genuinely thoughtful moments of design week, sitting somewhere between design, culture, and research. This year's theme, In Sight, examines image-making and the ways visuals shape how we see and understand the world. Worth going for the ideas alone.

Dates: April 20 to 26, 2026
Location: Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan
RSVP: Open to public

ONE — Reference Library by Jil Sander

Sixty books, chosen by Lykke Li, Faye Toogood, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and fifty-seven others whose taste we trust completely. Jil Sander and Apartamento have arranged them into a reference library of favourite printed material. The kind of stop that sends you home with a new reading list.

Dates: April 20 to 24, 2026
Times: 11am to 5pm
Location: Via Luca Beltrami 5, Milan
RSVP: Open to public

Sophie Lou Jacobsen — Disco Aperitivo

Some of the most delicate, feminine glasswork being made right now. Sophie Lou Jacobsen is leaning into 70s and 80s Italian glamour this year, jeweled glass and tableware rooted in Aperitivo culture.

Dates: April 20 to 22, 2026
Location: Appartamento 38, Loreto, Milan
RSVP: Yes. By appointment only

Yves Salomon Éditions × Michael Bargo

A collaboration between Yves Salomon Éditions and American designer Michael Bargo: reinterpreted vintage furniture by American designers paired with a series of quilts, together telling the story of a journey to Milan. American heritage meeting Parisian craftsmanship. A dialogue we're watching closely.

Dates: April 20 to 23, 2026
Times: 10am to 7pm
Location: Casa Mascagni, Via Mascagni 22, Milan

Marni × Pasticceria Cucchi

Marni has taken over Cucchi, a Milanese institution since 1936, with branded plates, milk jugs, and sugar sachets designed by RedDuo Studio. It runs through July 15, so less a design week event than a three-month excuse to have your cappuccino with a branded milk jug.

Dates: Through July 15, 2026
Location: Pasticceria Cucchi, Corso Genova 1, Milan
RSVP: Open to public

Alessi × C.P. Company — BLEND

A coffee collection that folds three canonical pieces, Richard Sapper's 9090 espresso maker, Jean Nouvel's cups and saucers, and Enzo Mari's Arran tray, into a hand-sandblasted black PVD finish that will mark and age with use. The philosophy mirrors C.P. Company's garment-dyeing process: objects are meant to carry their history. Exactly the kind of material thinking we respond to.

Dates: April 21 to 25, 2026
Location: C.P. Company Showroom, Via G. Fiamma 18, Milan
RSVP: Yes. By appointment only

L'Appartamento by Artemest

Back for its fourth year at the 19th-century Palazzo Donizetti. Five design studios, Charlap Hyman & Herrero, Rockwell Group, March and White Design, Sasha Adler Design, and Urjowan Alsharif Interiors, each take an Italian cultural capital (Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples, Palermo) and turn it into a room. Frescoed ceilings, an elliptical staircase, handcrafted Italian furniture. An afternoon on its own.

Dates: April 21 to 26, 2026 (press preview April 20)
Times: 10am to 6pm
Location: Palazzo Donizetti, Via Gaetano Donizetti 48, Milan
RSVP: Yes. Pre-registration required

cc-tapis × Fornasetti — (META)FISICA

Curated by Dan Thawley, the exhibition unfolds through six rooms as a kind of labyrinth, presenting a new rug collection developed with Fornasetti. Archival motifs are reinterpreted into surreal compositions, brought to life through cc-tapis' craftsmanship. Sound, space, and narrative unfolding room by room.

Dates: April 20 to 26, 2026
Location: Piazza Santo Stefano 10, Milan
RSVP: Open to public

Medea House × Tara Bernerd

Oak, gloss walnut, brass, fluted glass, marble, hand-stitched leather. The materials list for Tara Bernerd's capsule collection with Medea reads like a brief we'd write ourselves. Cabinetry, tables, a statement bed, staged on the lower ground floor of the Four Seasons, which means the setting will be as considered as the work.

Dates: April 20 to 26, 2026
Location: Four Seasons Hotel Milan, Lower Ground Floor, Via Gesù 6, Milan
RSVP: Open to public

Triennale Milano

Worth a full day on its own. Two shows to prioritize within: The Eames Houses, an architectural installation based on Ray and Charles Eames's 1949 home, built with Kettal. And A Language of Clarity, a major retrospective on Lella and Massimo Vignelli, tracing fifty years of their work across graphic design, product, and interiors. Essential.

Dates: During Milan Design Week (shows run longer)
Location: Triennale Milano, Viale Emilio Alemagna 6, Milan
RSVP: Open to public

Homage to the Square — Mutina × Albers Foundation

A ceramic surface collection born from the dialogue between Mutina and the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, inspired by Albers's Homage to the Square painting series. Albers believed colour is never isolated. It lives and changes in relation to its context, and his idea that, in art, one plus one plus one can equal more than three translates beautifully into ceramic here.

Dates: April 20 to 26, 2026
Location: Casa Mutina, Via Cernaia 1A, Milan
RSVP: Open to public

Luci Rosse — Giuseppe Porcelli

The glamorous interiors of the late 70s and 80s: bold colour pairings, animalier patterns used as graphic accents. Porcelli describes it as disciplined maximalism, excess filtered and distilled into equilibrium between theatrical flair and compositional precision. Precisely the territory Centerpiece lives in.

Dates: April 18 to 23, 2026
Times: 11am to 6pm
Location: Via Comelico 3, Milan
RSVP: Yes. By registration only (rsvp@giuseppeporcelli.com)

Nilufar Gallery

Design week or not, this belongs on any Milan itinerary. Nina Yashar's eye has shaped how contemporary collectible design is understood and exhibited.

Interni Venosta at Palazzo Olivazzi

A historic apartment originally curated by Osvaldo Borsani, now taken over by Interni Venosta, the independent project by Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran. Rooted in 20th-century Milanese elegance and Italian craft, much of what we look for when we source.

Villa Necchi Campiglio

A reference point for a generation of designers, and one of the most completely realized examples of Italian modernism still standing. Gaggenau is hosting a garden installation during design week, worth a look if you're already on site.