Articles by Antonia Solari

This year’s edition of Salone del Mobile (Milan, June 7-12) also made room for Eurocucina, the biennial event that focuses on kitchen trends. Now in its 23rd year, Eurocucina welcomed 82 exhibitors, presenting flowing, hybrid kitchens that break down …

It all started with a phone call: An English family was browsing Houzz for an architect to lead their renovation project in Italy. Seeing Paola Favretto’s profile, they decided to call her right away. Their first chat led to another, and another. The …

It all started with a phone call: An English family was browsing Houzz for an architect to lead their renovation project in Italy. Seeing Paola Favretto’s profile, they decided to call her right away. Their first chat led to another, and another. The …

The International Exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom Furnishings, or Cersaie, opened its doors from Sept. 27 to Oct. 1 in Bologna, Italy, for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Spread over 15 pavilions, the show welcomed 623 exhibito…

This year, the iconic Salone del Mobile furniture fair and its satellite event, the Fuorisalone design festival — which takes place at sites around Milan — were moved from their usual April date to September. Over a period of six days, this special ed…

Some clear and possibly lasting trends have emerged from the pandemic, following shifts in the way we live at home. The biggest change concerns open-plan layouts: After years of love for openness and fluidity between spaces, we now are seeking separat…

With the Salone del Mobile trade fair normally held in Milan each April canceled this year due to the pandemic, a new event recently captured some of that show’s energy. Milan Design City was an expansion of the city’s Fall Design Week into a much big…

If you’re looking for trends in tile, bathroom fixtures and more, then you wanted to be in Bologna, Italy, at the end of September for Cersaie, the International Exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom Furnishings. But if you couldn’t attend the show,…

Euroluce is a biennial light fair that takes place in Milan concurrently with the Salone del Mobile, or Milan Furniture Fair. This year’s edition hosted more than 400 exhibitors from around the world and showcased a new direction in lighting: multitas…

This year’s Salone del Mobile, or Milan Furniture Fair, presented countless reinterpretations of the current design zeitgeist and offered clues to the big shifts in thinking happening within the industry. Houzz editors were on the scene at the April 9…