Salone del Mobile Milano.Moscow 2019, last from Oct 9 to 12, within the Crocus Expo, the most important exhibition center in Russia, more than 240 Italian and foreign companies participated to the15th edition, showcasing a selection of pieces shown in Milan – from classic to design and luxury pieces. As a very important international exchange opportunity in the industry, a large number of well-known furniture manufacturers in Russia also participated in the exhibition.

Salone del Mobile Milano, the world’s largest and most important furniture fair, offer the platform explore cutting-edge innovations and intricate Italian craftsmanship exhibited, exchange ideas and indulge in the most recent furniture, product, and interior design technologies. Salone del Mobile Milano showcasing design excellence, quality and innovation, celebratiing the latest design trends and innovations.

As the world’s largest and most important furniture fair, Salone del Mobile Milano offer the platform explore cutting-edge innovations and intricate craftsmanship exhibited, exchange ideas and indulge in the most recent furniture, product, and interior design technologies. Salone del Mobile is the most keenly awaited international event for the furnishing and design sectors, thousand designers, architects, critics, intellectuals and trendhunters for a week full of emotions, innovation, design, technology and attractions to make from this event, one of the best global experiences for professionals.

Responding to the request of a significant number of veteran exhibitors of the Salone del Mobile.Milano – the international showcase of the Home-furnishing system – “i Saloni WorldWide Moscow” were launched in 2005 and since then are held annually in Moscow in October, becoming the benchmark event for the Home-furnishing sector for the Russian market and the countries in its geopolitical basin.

A major new departure for 2018 was the introduction of a new name for the event: Salone del Mobile.Milano Moscow, underscoring its origins, its close ties with Milan and Italy’s strong commitment towards internationalisation. This was triggered by a wish to encapsulate the same consistent identity under a single brand for an event that is seen by the public as the leading international design and furnishing appointment the world over, whether in Moscow, Milan, or for the last two years, also in Shanghai.

The Salone del Mobile.Milano Moscow is a point of reference for trade operators, professionals, the press, fans, millennials and everyone constantly on the lookout for new pieces that balance design, planning and lifestyle. The event stands out not only for the high quality of the merchandise offer, from the classic furniture to the trendy product up to the luxury. For its own identity, presenting itself as a reference fair in the home furnishing sector and interior ideas.

The event is regarded as the only platform for good quality furnishing on the Russian market thanks to the huge array of goods, which range from furnishings to upholstered furniture, lighting fixtures, kitchens, office furniture, accessories, bathroom furniture, textiles, furnishing elements and technical furnishing elements for the home /contract.

In full synergy with the Moscow event since 2005 is the SaloneSatellite Moscow, which has become a major opportunity for young Russian and former Soviet Republic designers to make contact with the exhibitors, and take advantage of the huge visibility offered by the international press presence.

Salone del Mobile.Milano Moscow 2019 demonstrated its position at the nucleus of the world of Russian furniture and design, stimulate and excite the Russian market, promoting not just the quality and uniqueness of furniture and design but also and especially the commitment of the companies who put their trust in the exhibitive power of the Moscow Salone.

Each year, the SaloneSatellite Moscow Award is presented for new concepts, original designs and proposals that are the forerunners of the great products of tomorrow. The selection is entrusted to a Jury composed of sectoral professionals. The top three award-winners was invited to the following edition of SaloneSatellite, held under the brand of the Salone del Mobile.Milano.

Russian creatives were also given a space to present their work and ideas. Forty-six emerging designers from Russia and the former Soviet Republics showcased their own projects, with fresh products that combined critical thinking with creativity. These promising designers focused on maintaining Russian traditional aesthetics while striding toward Italian horizons.

SaloneSatellite Moscow
Born from Salone del Mobile.Milano in 1998, SaloneSatellite was the first event to focus on young designers under 35 and is running concurrently with the Salone del Mobile.Milano Moscow since their creation in 2005.

The SaloneSatellite is an unmissable occasion for direct contact with the leading furniture sector companies, and an opportunity for personal growth for its young participants, given the chance of interface with other designers and the critical judgement of experts within the sector.

The young designers involved are selected from among the top students at the leading design schools in Russia and the post-Soviet countries and showcase a wide variety of projects, ranging from eminently classic design to the latest trends, or referencing their own cultural traditions.

A Jury composed of sectoral professionals awards the three best products and the top three winners are invited to the SaloneSatellite, held under the umbrella of the Salone del Mobile.Milano, in April.

Events
This year’s Moscow extension again promoted the mission of creative collaboration. Along with commercial activity, emerging creatives had opportunities to learn from the very best Italian architects and designers. Alberto and Francesco Meda, Francesco Fresa, and Marina Braginskaya were among the professionals in conversation with a full house of Russian designers at Salone’s Master Classes and Work Talk.

Also in full synergy, the Master Classes, in collaboration with ICE – Italian Trade Agency, led by three pivotal figures in Italian architecture and design, are unique opportunities for interface, dialogue and reflection on design issues. Alongside the Master Classes, the Work Talk: aimed at Russian professionals, the format was conceived in 2017 to stimulate new ideas and strategies against the country’s actual design and architectural background.

Master Classes and Work Talk
Providing an opportunity for reflection and learning on the themes of design and architecture and with a special focus on interior architecture, the annual Master Classes again accompany the Salone del Mobile.Milano Moscow, providing a cultural counterpoint to the purely commercial event. Plus: the Work Talk with Marina Braginskaya.

Alberto and Francesco Meda, father and son, are two contrasting generations, and a perfect example of how two different approaches and two different perspectives can be mutually advantageous in the creative world. Useful, good-looking, simple and innovative are the keywords that reference Alberto’s career path. He uses technology lightly to solve complex problems and produce simple, natural shapes. For Francesco, design is a matter of research, context and vocabulary, and – above all – materials.

Francesco Fresa is the co-founder of the studio Piuarch – a multi-award-winning international architecture and urban design studio – that sees comparison, dialogue and team work as added values for every project. Piuarch is a collective that finds strength in its plurality, made up of different backgrounds and identities that guarantee a multifaceted approach to their work. It is precisely this heterogeneity that defines a harmonious whole, a sort of orchestra, in which group recognition counts far more than personalisation and the passion for making architecture becomes the driving force.

The Work Talk hosted by Marina Braginskaya, aimed at Russian professionals, the format was conceived in 2017 to stimulate new ideas and strategies against the country’s actual design and architectural background.

Carlo Colombo is a designer both loved and contended by many Made in Italy design companies. Versatile and multifaceted, his design career initially focused on the design and planning of interiors before extending gradually to the architectural sector, in Italy and all over the world. Carlo is a professional who has created high-value artistic projects, attested to by the awards that have studded his career. For him, being an architect means, as Ernesto Rogers said as the Athens Charter was being drafted in 1952, designing “from the spoon to the city,” taking heed of the history of the place to which the project relates and to its context.