Scene Stealers: 6 furniture design trends spotted at Salone del Mobile 2025

Dedon’s Mymi collection by GamFratesi takes inspiration from Parisian cafes, its handwoven seats and tactile column base offering durability without compromising on elegance.

At Gan, Alejandra Gandía-Blasco’s Nomad series translates recycled PET into lightweight poufs, rugs and cushions—textiles that shift easily between your garden, patio and parlour.

Patricia Urquiola’s Insula table for Kettal plays with a terracotta-toned glaze and sculptural heft, reading as grounded indoors and organic outdoors.

Meanwhile, the Nemo chair by Daniel Christopher for Rivatelier delivers a surprise: a whimsical, fish-shaped profile upholstered like a living-room armchair.

A continuation of last year’s tilt towards tactility, this emotional turn extended into materiality, with surfaces becoming a medium for slowing down and deepening spatial experiences. Bouclé, brushed suede, multi-fibre and highly tactile fabrics all invited closer interaction at Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025.

At Edra, tactility takes centre stage—its Gems collection wraps sofas and armchairs in fabrics inspired by precious stones. Glittering yarns and plush textures create surfaces that shimmer in the light, exalting every fold and curve.

Kengo Kuma’s Hos collection for Gan and Gandiablasco pairs architectural timber frames with thick rugs made of recycled PET, creating soft, sheltering forms that bridge texture and structure.

Jean-Marie Massaud’s Joan sofa for Poliform offers a quieter, more refined take—plush yet composed, with tailored velvet upholstery that marks a return to comfort through material depth.

Embracing pinks, gloss and decorative flair, designers are leaning into an aesthetic long dismissed as superficial. This year at Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025, ultra-femininity was expressed unapologetically, not as a gendered aesthetic, but as a rejection of restraint and a reclaiming of visual pleasure.

Karim Rashid’s Fluid Dreams bed for Kare Design sets the tone—its leatherclad pink curves embracing the body with all the subtlety of a billboard.

At Moooi, Sjoerd Vroonland’s Timber Tones carpet translates traditional marquetry into soft geometry underfoot, an ode to material sensuality.

The Murano Bulb by Marcantonio for Multiforme turns decorative excess into a statement, combining blown glass whimsy with tongue-in-cheek reverence.

At Daum, fashion designer Tamara Ralph’s Poétique collection draws from Art Nouveau flourishes, with her couture background evident in details like pearl and drapery that elevate each piece into a romantic, high-craft expression of femininity.

Meanwhile, Pierre-Yves Rochon’s Villa Héritage installation was the most baroque, sumptuous specimen of the theme. The villa’s bedroom and green-themed living room display all the classic markers of luxury—symmetry, a canopied bed and a statement chandelier— tempered by contemporary details such as sinuous curves filtered through a palette of tonal beiges.

Still a defining aesthetic this year at Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025, soft geometry leant into comfort and tactility—rounded corners, plush volumes and plumped-up proportions that made even the most sculptural pieces feel approachable.

Minotti’s Saki chairs by Nendo capture this mood with poetic precision—their subtly curving back panels, inspired by the calyx that protected a flower’s petals, merge modular freedom with the design studio’s distinctly Japanese playful signature.

Porada’s Koji sofa by Giuseppe Viganò pairs overstuffed forms with timber detailing that frames rather than contrasts against its softness.

Meanwhile, Lorenzo Remedi’s Blackjoy console for Arketipo riffs on geometry with lacquered, fluid lines in a moody bordeaux finish.

And Sancal’s Vibe series wraps the trend in joy: modular, colour-drenched loungers with chubby quilting and exposed seams that soften even the most architectural of settings.

Like a palette lifted from sunrises and sunsets, orange and ochre tones radiated across the fair, imbuing rooms with warmth, ease and hopeful exuberance. Whether rendered in velvet, lacquer or joyful prints, the spectrum spoke of optimism without tipping into pastiche.

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Sancal’s Seta trolley by Geckeler Michels embraces both utility and levity, offered in punchy citrus hues with castors that make it as mobile as it is cheerful.

Patricia Urquiola’s Lepid shelves for Kartell, displayed together with other sunny pieces from the brand, outline volume through sunbeam-toned profiles that play with structure and lightness.

Filipino designer Kenneth Cobonpue’s Aero Easy armchair translates fluidity into a lounge piece that almost appears to float, with terracotta-toned PET strands that trace radiant arcs.

Lastly, Pied-à-Terre by Brogliato Traverso for Magis reimagines the round table with a geometric structure in burnt orange and a recycled-marble weighted base.

These are not pieces that blend in. Monumental in form and symbolic in intent, totemic furniture brought punctuation and presence to pared-back rooms—anchoring the space like a centrepiece or artefact. Some straddle the line between functional design and sculptural expression, with a few sitting comfortably in the realm of collectible art objects.

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Jaime Hayon led the charge with the creative Talk Talk rug series for Nanimarquina, which turns facial profiles into floor-bound conversation starters, equal parts playful and expressive.

Daniela Ferreira’s Origem Hadean Small pendant for Serip invokes light as an elemental force; its organic asymmetry celebrating chaos and transformation.

Philippe Malouin’s Trench armchair for Acerbis sculpts a continuous curve into a suspended volume, pairing a monumental form with unexpected lightness.

Matau by Verter Turroni for ImperfettoLab is a blackened chaise longue whose illusion of balance belies its solidity, calling to mind ancient artefacts or future relics.

Rounding out our picks from Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025 is La Michetta by the late design maestro Gaetano Pesce for Meritalia—an iconic modular sofa reintroduced in vibrant velvets. Totemic in its eclecticism and unapologetically expressive, it offers a joyful counterpoint to the solemnity often associated with monumentality.

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