The Most Brilliant Product Collaborations at Milan Design Week 

Thousands of innovative new products debut each Milan Design Week, many showcasing the brilliance that ensues when two disparate parties put their heads together to create something truly special. Below, Galerie highlights ten product collaborations from the citywide festival that deserve your attention. 

1. Kengo Kuma for Jaipur Rugs 

Kengo Kuma is translating his architectural language into Faces, a 16-piece rug collection for Jaipur Rugs that will debut at Salone del Mobile, the brand’s Via Marco Minghetti showroom, and the Crespi Bonsai Museum. Drawing on the intricate facades of most distinctive buildings, the series distills their layered fragments and material shifts into textile compositions defined by natural tones and punctuated with black and white graphics. Specific works trace back to key projects, including the Suntory Museum of Art in Tokyo, whose musō-gōshi lattice informs the Sukima carpet’s layered intervals and the Bokashi carpet’s linear gradations. Rajasthan artisans handcraft each piece from wool and regenerated viscose.  

2. Tara Bernerd for Frette 

After debuting a collaboration of throws and cushions for Frette last year, Tara Bernerd returns with the Turning Tables collection of table linens, debuting at the brand’s Via Manzoni flagship. Its signature scalloped motifs reappear throughout the new series as intricate borders that lend a sense of movement while highlighting Frette’s masterful craftsmanship. Each piece comes in the brand’s signature cotton-linen blend and features classic hemstitch detailing alongside geometric frameworks. Entertaining items such as walnut trays with leather inlays, embossed leather coasters, and lacquered jars capped with hand-finished leather lids take things beyond the table. The offering also introduces lighter tonal variations of her throws and cushions.  

3. Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance for Dior  

A new chapter in Dior Maison’s fruitful collaboration with Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has arrived through the Corolle lamps, which draw directly from the house’s couture heritage. Their fluid curves reinterpret the iconic lines of the Corolle skirt, translating the movement of pleats and draped fabric into luminous, sculptural silhouettes crafted in mouth-blown Murano. In each piece, light filters through layered transparencies to accentuate the glasswork’s depth and nuance. Additional designs explore basketry techniques, with madake bamboo woven into bell-shaped forms that reference Dior’s cannage motif. Available in table and portable versions, the lamps appear in the house’s signature palette of gray, pink, and white, with finely wrought details such as engraved “CD” buttons reinforcing the house’s exceptional savoir-faire.  

4. Dimorestudio for Bonacina  

Coastal Tuscany has been on the mind of Dimorestudio maestros Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran, who channeled its languid elegance into the Punta Ala collection for Bonacina. Charting a refined geography of the region’s storied seaside enclave, the series of chairs, poufs, and tables evokes 1970s Italian modernism distilled through the studio’s disciplined vocabulary of solid volumes, clean geometries, and exacting proportions. Bonacina realized the series in solid cotò wood, hand-turned to replicate the appearance of rattan while ensuring structural integrity. Flat-oval rattan bindings and discreet brass accents lend contrast, while upholstery from global textile houses, including Aïssa Dione and Hosoo, introduces a cosmopolitan material palette.  

5. Peter Marino for Venini  

Chairman of the board of Venetian Heritage and the mastermind of Casa Cipriani’s dazzling renovation, Peter Marino frequently finds himself in close proximity to Murano artisans. Now the architect is extending his rigorous language into collectible lighting with On the Rocks, a new collection for Venini. Each totemic table lamp stages a studied contrast between a Zimbabwe black marble base and hand-blown Murano glass cubes. Venini’s artisans produce the elements using the traditional pulegoso technique, suspending fine air bubbles within molten glass to create a porous, mineral-like surface—a process that also softens the glow of each luminaire. 

6. Lucia Eames for Nanimarquina 

The only child of Charles Eames, Lucia Eames kept weaving close to her creative practice. Now, the late artist’s vibrant language again enters the world of textiles thanks to a collection with Nanimarquina, which translates seven original works into a series of handwoven rugs. Rooted in her lifelong fascination with drawing, the collection carries forward recurring motifs in her work, such as butterflies, birds, and suns. Creative director Nani Marquina paired each composition with a technique and fiber that amplifies its character, resulting in constructions across hand-knotting, tufting, and embroidery. Artisans in India and Pakistan realize the designs using natural materials such as hand-spun Afghan wool, braided jute, and New Zealand wool, with several pieces incorporating newly developed methods like sculptural tufting.  

7. Kelly Wearstler for H&M Home 

Kelly Wearstler is officially making her Milan Design Week debut with H&M Home, unveiling a preview of their upcoming collaboration through an immersive installation at Palazzo Acerbi. The presentation, produced by Studio Boum, introduces a curated selection of furniture and objects crafted in wood, metal, ceramics, marble, and textiles, alongside bespoke variations developed in custom colors and scales. Set within the rarely opened 17th-century Baroque palace, the display places Wearstler’s sculptural pieces against a backdrop of soaring columns and opulent frescoes. Highlights include the wooden Curva vase, which traces the silhouette of an amphora, the Etrine marble tray composed from a mishmash of stone fragments, and the Soluna lounge chair, a sumptuous perch defined by a plush, Bellini-indebted profile.  

8. Antonio Citterio for Maxalto 

Antonio Citterio is introducing a family of storage units defined by compact, architectural volumes and a lustrous material palette. Offered in one vertical and two horizontal formats, the Luminor pieces are well-suited for both living and dining rooms with proportions designed to function as either service elements or low, linear counterparts to a sofa. The collection also marks Maxalto’s debut of PVD technology, developed by Arclinea, where Citterio serves as creative director, in yellow and rose gold finishes that lend the volumes a glossy sheen. Hinged doors and drawers open to interiors lined in taupe tones with maple frisé fittings.  

9. Dozie Kanu for Knoll 

Headlining Knoll’s presentation at Salone del Mobile will be a series of intriguing new tables by artist and sculptor Dozie Kanu. The tables feature steel rods supporting taut leather surfaces edged with fringe, allowing the full-length tassels to shift with slight touches and momentarily reveal what lies beneath or nearby. Kanu draws on a poignant personal vocabulary, merging references from his Nigerian and Texas roots with influences from recent time spent living in Portugal. The tables’ leather tops take cues from an African drum he collected; the fringe evokes African ceremonial dress and Western cowboy culture. Offered in bronze or manganese metallic finishes with leather, the collection spans console, cocktail, and side tables. 

10. Faye Toogood for Meritalia 

Faye Toogood is rethinking upholstery from the inside out with Crease, a collection that began with the cover rather than the frame. Two- and three-seater sofas and armchairs emerged from thick, folded surfaces that recall paper nets and flat-pack construction, with pronounced stitching tracing deliberately irregular lines across wool upholstery that give each piece a soft, expressive presence. That same logic extends to the cocktail table, a “metal origami” formed by cutting and folding steel as if it were paper, then wrapping the surfaces in thick leather to introduce a tactile quality. Across the collection, Toogood translates the simplest gestures of folding and layering into an irresistibly playful geometry that embodies Meritalia’s embrace of the unconventional.