Introducing Salone Raritas: the new Salone del Mobile.Milano exhibition space dedicated to limited edition design and high-end creative manufacturing
Salone Raritas. Curated icons, unique objects, and outsider pieces will make its debut at the 64th edition of the trade fair. The first direct interface between the world of special edition design, antiques and high-end craftsmanship and the professional design market. Leading galleries and an international audience will come together on a platform driven by a strong curatorial vision, designed to foster long-term relationships and generate business opportunities. Today the Salone del Mobile.Milano is holding a presentation in London of Salone Raritas. Curated icons, unique objects, and outsider pieces, a new exhibition and curatorial endeavour dedicated to special and limited editions of design, unique pieces, antiques and fine craftsmanship, set to make its debut from 21st to 26th April 2026 at Fiera Milano, Rho. A place for galleries of excellence and the international design supply chain – architects, interior designers, developers, hospitality and contract professionals – to meet, where the cultural value of the pieces will dialogue with the scale of major contemporary commissions.
Curated by Annalisa Rosso, Editorial Director and Cultural Events Advisor of the Salone del Mobile, and set up by Formafantasma, Salone Raritas was created to bridge the gap between highly-skilled creative production and the B2B contemporary design market. The aim is to build a select environment fostering networking opportunities and perspectives, generating new ways of presenting and purchasing unique pieces, limited editions and ‘outsider’ objects which, when included in high-profile projects, can define the identity of public and private interiors. The exhibition design is by Formafantasma, who conceived the Salone Raritas area in the manner of a large architectural lantern: a porous landscape, bold in its materiality, designed to enrich the stories it contains without overwhelming them. It is designed to ensure recognisability and rhythm, while a predefined colour and material palette allows for calibrated customisation.
On the major contemporary design scene, Salone Raritas identifies a change of pace: international hospitality, residential and hospitality real estate development and experiential retail increasingly incorporate limited edition works and furnishings as levers of identity and positioning. Including collectible design in the Salone means taking the lead in an evolving field, bringing it to the attention of investors, developers and clients in search of quality, rarity and a coherent narrative as new value indicators for hotels, residences and public spaces. The project will be further underpinned by the Salone ecosystem: a global platform that attracts over 300,000 visitors from more than 160 different countries and over 5,200 international journalists every year, multiplying the visibility of a sector that traditionally operates on a small scale. In the Salone Raritas space, this scale translates to a curated and immediately readable narrative, in which the character of each gallery remains intact within a unified exhibition layout.
Configured in this way, Salone Raritas offers an immersive and distinctive experience, in which unique pieces and limited series become accessible to interlocutors who seldom cross paths in other circuits, consolidating the Salone del Mobile.Milano’s mission not just as a commercial platform but also as a cultural infrastructure: a place where rarity ceases to be an exception and becomes a shared design language.
Raritas. Curated icons, unique objects, and outsider pieces 21st–26th April 2026
Pavilions 9-11. Fiera Milano, Rho
