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A view of L’Appartement, an installation by the Paris-based vintage dealer Antoine Billore created for the French fragrance brand L’Artisan Parfumeur.
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Theo Bobin
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11 Standout Moments From Salone del Mobile
Milan’s annual design fair showcased contemporary creations, as well as midcentury homes not typically open to the public.
A view of L’Appartement, an installation by the Paris-based vintage dealer Antoine Billore created for the French fragrance brand L’Artisan Parfumeur.
Credit...
Theo Bobin
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By
Monica Khemsurov
April 24, 2026
Milan’s annual design fair, Salone del Mobile, took place this week, drawing industry insiders to the city — and into its apartments. Several homes, like a preserved 1948 residence by the Italian rationalist architect Osvaldo Borsani and a 1938 villa by Franco Albini, another leader of that design movement, opened their doors to the public for the first time. Other domestic offerings included a show from the American designer Michael Bargo and the French fashion brand Yves Salomon in a 1959 apartment by Eugenia Alberti, a Gio Ponti disciple; and the sultry, red-lit living room that the Italian designer Giuseppe Porcelli created within his office. Though Milan is especially crowded during Salone del Mobile, these exhibitions gave the fair a feeling of intimacy. Below, 11 of our favorite moments.
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A lamp and marquetry chair designed by Billore.
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Theo Bobin
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Vintage pieces Billore brought from Paris to Milan for the exhibition.
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Theo Bobin
A Parisian Designer’s Upcycled Debut
The Parisian vintage dealer Antoine Billore has always been a world builder. He was formerly a set designer for fashion brands, and on his popular
Instagram account
he posts images of rooms he’s staged and restaged inside his private 11th Arrondissement showroom, where the walls are hung with midcentury paintings and eccentric
objets
like copper snails and carved-wood trousers. In Milan, for the French fragrance purveyor
L’Artisan Parfumeur
, Billore designed all the rooms of an apartment in the Loreto neighborhood, filling them with pieces from his vintage collection, as well as his first original furnishings. Many of his designs included upcycled elements, like lamps made from vintage wood vases and chunky wood chairs embedded with tiny found artworks.
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Dozie Kanu’s new tables for Knoll have a leather top and fringe.
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Liz Johnson Artur
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The tables are inspired by African drums and ceremonial dress.
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Liz Johnson Artur
Tables That Reference African Drums
In one of the more unexpected collaborations of the week, the Portugal-based artist
Dozie Kanu
— whose works, like a 2020 chairlike assemblage made from various components, including a bulldozer tooth, are typically more design inspired than rigorously functional — unveiled a series of round metal tables created for the furniture manufacturer
Knoll
. Each was ringed with a curtain of leather fringe; Kanu, whose parents are Nigerian, is interested in Africa’s influence on design and art, and the detail was intended to evoke the continent’s drums and ceremonial dress.
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The Italian tile maker Mutina collaborated with the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation on a collection inspired by Josef’s series “Homage to the Square.”
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Gerhardt Kellermann
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The tiles come in seven color combinations.
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Gerhardt Kellermann
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