Milan Design Week 2025 Review

Milan felt like a Haworth garden this year: everywhere you looked, a flower from the Haworth world was blooming. Imaginative concepts from Poltrona Frau, experimental questions from Cappellini, radical approaches from Zanotta, dramatic flourishes at Cassina – we were surrounded by stories. (And that’s just within the Haworth ecosystem!)

While gathering content for the Milan Design Week 2025 Trend report – download that here – we posted a daily report on topics that we felt deserved special attention. Those topics included colour, materials, AI, and nostalgia. 

Read on for a summary of what we discovered – this is Milan Design Week 2025 in review!

The four topics we explored in Milan are not ‘trends’, per se; they are more like meditations on four subjects that affect most of us in the world of design. 

We’re not looking for streamlined, global mega-trends – if such a thing even exists anymore. Our Trend Report takes the same approach. We are not encouraging ‘trend-chasing’, which is uninspired and unsustainable. 

Instead, we look for fresh takes on the timeless, paired with insights from creative minds. We found much to inspire us – and we hope you will as well!