Milan Design Week 2025: 13 Design Trends
At Milan Design Week 2025, glass emerged from the background—and not as invisible as one may think. These varieties were colorful and expressive, demonstrating exciting material mixes, vibrant surfaces, tiered levels and transparency that added both delicacy and delight. The glass of right now is not fragile, but rather confident that it can be the focal point of the room. Furniture and lighting in chunky, colorful, and glamorous designs exude main character energy.
Mini-forms abounded too, like the Striche table, which means “to make large” in the Venetian dialect. Indeed, the small side table makes a big impression; its top, made of fused Murano glass, has a sugary, lustrous look. Made from mouth-blown Murano glass, Studio Urquiola’s modular Quadrato lights for 6:AM featured myriad surfaces with grooves, air bubbles, and a play of transparency and opacity that adds a tactile dimension to cold glass.
This year, Milan Design Week seriously leaned into whimsy. Childlike wonder elevated everyday objects into something joyful and worth looking forward to using. Case in point, Loewe transformed the humble teapot into a fantastical piece via a global raft of artists, designers and architects. Spanish talent Laia Arqueros created a teapot inspired by the feminine form, blending Surrealism with sharp-tongued political commentary, whilst Dan McCarthy’s pieces were festooned with egg-shaped faces.
