The Salone del Mobile of Milan 2015 is just around the corner. The 54th edition of the Furniture Fair will fling open its doors from Tuesday 14th to Sunday 19th April, at the Rho Milan Fairgrounds. Key word: excellence, precisely, furnishing, lighting and workspace excellence. With over 2,000 exhibitors, more than 200,000 m2 of exhibition space and thousands of products making their market debut, the Salone del Mobile is the acknowledged sectoral international benchmark event year after year, attracting more than 300,000 visitors from over 160 countries. The Salone Internazionale del Mobile, split into three style categories: Classic, Modern and Design, and the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition and SaloneSatellite, will be flanked by the biennial Euroluce / International Lighting Exhibition (in Pavilions 9-11 and13-15) and Workplace3.0/SaloneUfficio, dedicated to the workspace (in Pavilions 22- 24).

Euroluce, the exhibition devoted to excellence in the lighting world, will showcase the very latest in outdoor, indoor, industrial, event/show lighting solutions. To mark the ‘2015 International Year of Light 2015’ proclaimed by UNESCO, architect Attilio Stocchi has conceived the installation “Favilla. To every light a voice”. Workplace3.0 is an exhibition with an innovative concept, devoted to design and technology for planning the workspace in the round, and will bring together the top proposals from the furnishing world for office. SaloneSatellite will be back in Pavilions 22 and24, now in its 18th edition, the exhibition is dedicated to the theme “Life Planet”, dovetailing with that of EXPO 2015. SaloneSatellite is an unrivalled meeting point for 700 young designers selected from all over the world, businessmen, architects, interior designers under 35. The exhibition showcases their work, and offers them a chance to be selected for the 6^th annual edition of the SaloneSatellite Award for the 3 best prototypes on exhibit, relating to the product categories on show.

Let’s conclude with a touch of art. The Salone del Mobile is also one of the supporters of the exhibition “Leonardo 1452- 1519”, the greatest Leonardo da Vinci exhibition ever held in Italy, which will launch on 15^th April 2015 at Milan’s Palazzo Reale, just after the Salone opens.

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