Previews of Superstudio Design 2026

At Milan Design Week 2026, Superstudio rethinks its role within the geography of the Fuorisalone with Superstudio Design 2026, a distributed project that goes beyond the traditional idea of a district and proposes a new map of the city through three venues and complementary visions of contemporary design. From April 20 to 26, more than 30,000 sqm of exhibition spaces across Superstudio Più (Tortona), Superstudio Maxi (Barona) and the new Superstudio Village (Bovisa) will host 68 projects, 88 brands and 85 designers from 19 countries and four continents, confirming the global and multicultural dimension of the platform. The project is organized into three thematic paths - SuperNova, SuperCity and SuperPlayground - which connect new urban areas and bring together design, art and design experimentation.


© MOOOI 25thAnniversary, Tapestry by Mart Veldhuis

SuperNova – Superstudio Più, Tortona
In the historic heart of via Tortona, SuperNova takes shape as an international hub dedicated to large installations and independent pavilions. A key highlight of the edition is the return of Moooi with “Moooi 25 Years Young & Promising”, a large museum-style exhibition by Marcel Wanders across nearly 1,000 sqm, celebrating the brand’s return to Milan twenty-five years after its debut at Superstudio. Alongside Moooi, installations by Lexus International, Samsung Electronics and Schüller Möbelwerk | next125 bring together technology, material research and temporary architecture.


A sinistra: KWANN ARUN by AGAL for Slow Hand Design - Heritage Reimagined
A destra: © PATAPiAN STUDIO for Slow Hand Design - Heritage Reimagined

The global dimension of SuperNova expands with Slow Hand Design – Heritage Reimagined, a project by the Department of International Trade Promotion of Thailand dedicated to the evolution of Thai craftsmanship, and with “One Earth: House of the Heart”, an international architecture workshop for children conceived by Toyo Ito, bringing together models created by one hundred Japanese children together with those by architects such as Kazuyo Sejima, Sou Fujimoto, Manabu Chiba, Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham.


© Ross Lovegrove, Gabo

Other projects include FORUM8 with Experience the Moon. Design the Future, Karbony with Infinity, Ross Lovegrove with the kinetic sculptures Gabo 2.0 and Stereometric Method, Hideo Shimizu with Infinity Bio, a bathtub inspired by the Japanese ritual of the ofuro, and INDIGO DESIGN with Gravity, a project by Satoshi Kan translating the force of gravity into sculptural form.


© Polypiù Cathedral by Marco Piva

Also featured in the program are Istituto Marangoni with Oracoli domestici in collaboration with Alessi, the immersive pictorial intervention by Studio Moco, the installation Cathedral by PolyPiù, the digital installation by C&C Milano with Superstudio Digital, and supeRavioli, an experiential bistro designed by Paola Navone – Otto Studio for ABKStone. The dialogue between art and design continues on the Roof with Circle – Circle of the Arts, curated by Ivan Tresoldi with artistic direction by Gisella Borioli, while MyOwnGallery hosts the exhibition From Object to Vision by artist-designer Franco Perrotti. At the FLA – FlavioLucchiniArt Museum, the exhibition Mirrors brings together designer mirrors by figures such as Ettore Sottsass, Michele De Lucchi, Philippe Starck, Alessandro Mendini and Nathalie Du Pasquier, alongside sculptures by Flavio Lucchini, while Skyscrapers places the artist’s digital paintings in dialogue with architectural photographs by Giangiacomo Rocco di Torrepadula.

SuperCity – Superstudio Maxi, Barona
Curated by Giulio Cappellini, SuperCity imagines an ideal multicultural city where design, art and architecture converge into a single landscape. The space of Superstudio Maxi becomes an open scenography, without walls or physical divisions, where domestic and outdoor environments emerge like in a three-dimensional comic.

© SuperCity

At the center is the exhibition TheCity, a vision of living based on calm and serenity, with virtual houses furnished by brands such as Artelinea, De Padova, Foppapedretti, Icone Luce, Jaipur Rugs, Living Divani, Magis, Mario Luca Giusti, Moroso, Technogym, Thonet and Zanotta, together with a theater created by Abet Laminati using the new Venezia collection by Giulio Cappellini, a swimming pool and an urban landscape dotted with imaginary trees by PolyPiù. Within this context also appears Black Light by Alessandro Lupi, curated by Gisella Gelmini and Gaetano Corica.

The route includes When Design Becomes Art, exploring the boundary between functional object and artwork, with Alessandro Mendini’s stools for Flaminia transformed into a multicolored tower, mirrors by Artelinea, cubes by Abet Laminati, the 4 Lame nere by Icone Luce paired with Fronzoni tables by Cappellini, the collectible table by Alexandre Fontani and the intervention by Hsiang Han Hsu.


© SuperCity, Baxter

The group exhibition Portraits – photography | design connects iconic products from some of the most important Italian brands with the gaze of photographer Walter Gumiero, featuring pieces by Riva 1920, B&B Italia, Cappellini, Living Divani, Molteni, Flexform, Moroso, Kartell, Porro, Desalto and Baxter. Other projects include Artelinea, Honda, which involves students and teachers in workshops transforming visions of the future into real concepts also thanks to AI, the Agorà by Abet Laminati, Minima by Leonardo Talarico, Vimar with 230 VOLT-i designed by Giulio Iacchetti, Nemesi with Personal Luxury, and the Art Boulevard by Living Divani, a path of monumental sculptures by Maria Cristina Carlini anticipating Materie Viventi.


© SuperCity, Il Tornitore Matto by Alessi

Istituto Marangoni, in collaboration with Cappellini, also animates the space with Design Awakens, a project dedicated to the interiors of the future, while the program is completed by the return of Alessi with Il Tornitore Matto, an experimental platform between industry and craftsmanship, alongside a talk with ICFF New York on the future of the city, design, technology and nature.

SuperPlayground – Superstudio Village, Bovisa
A major novelty of 2026 is the opening of Superstudio Village, a new venue created from a former factory and transformed into a new creative and cultural space. Here SuperPlayground takes shape, a platform dedicated to emerging creativity and design experimentation. The immersive installation Keep Your Bubble by Slovak artist Lousy Auber, made from fabrics of discarded hot-air balloons, invites the public to enter an inflatable and interactive structure reflecting on transformation, reuse and the collective dimension of space.


© Posterheroes 

The Graphic Days Festival, born in Turin, makes its Milan debut bringing a selection of its most representative activities, including an exhibition dedicated to the fourteen editions of Posterheroes – Social Design for the Planet, a multisensory installation and an experiential space focused on artisanal printing techniques and social design. With ARIA, the curatorial project by Food Design Stories explores air as an invisible element connecting design, sustainability and food culture.


On the left: Studio Lecker, Extrawrustel
On the right: YET:FAB, Alherd Table lamp, ph. Ilya Kaner

Alongside the special projects, 33 designers selected through an international open call present new works, from Abele Malpiedi to Studio Lecker, from Pepita Design to YET:FAB, creating a map of new global design sensibilities. With opening hours extended until 11:00 pm and a program of talks, workshops and evening performances, SuperPlayground becomes a space for meeting and experimentation between emerging designers and the public.