Salone del Mobile 2025 in Milan introduces installations and pavilions by Sou Fujimoto, Paolo Sorrentino and more. Running between April 8th and 13th at Fiera Milano in Rho and around the city, the annual event taps four designers for the curation of site-specific installations and temporary spaces. Italian film director and writer Paolo Sorrentino brings La dolce attesa to the entrance of pavilions 22 and 24 of the fair. He collaborates with set designer Margherita Palli for the artwork, which, he says, is a project installation depicting a ‘metaphor for living.’

The French interior designer Pierre-Yves Rochon assembles Villa Héritage in a new exhibition route in pavilions 13 and 15 of the fair. It has design and art objects in the shared area, with several divided rooms. The ‘white room’ uses light as a cinematic projection. The ‘winter garden’ reminisces about Italian landscapes with a bright green setting. The ‘red salon’ evokes the look and theatricality of Italian opera. The plum-colored ‘library’ pays tribute to literature. At the center of the Salone del Mobile 2025 installation, there’s a patio with an Alpange piano, the designer’s dedication to music.

Outside the Salone del Mobile 2025 fair, the site-specific installations and temporary pavilions continue. It is Robert Wilson who opens the annual fair with a light, art, and sound project at once at the Museo Pietà Rondanini in Castello Sforzesco. Titled ‘Mother’, the American theatre director and playwright collaborates with Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. It is a 30-minute sequence of music, light and images using Stabat Mater, a medieval prayer to the Virgin Mary. The music plays in the vocal and instrumental version by Arvo Pärt, while the staging and lighting around Michelangelo’s masterpiece is by Robert Wilson.

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