6 Trends for Furnishing in 2025
Milan Design Week 2025 is the most important global event in the interior design scene, attracting professionals, insiders and enthusiasts from all over the world to it, on the hunt for novelties to be grasped at the fair, Salone del Mobile, and inspirations to be captured in the vibrant atmospheres of the countless events and presentations offered in the city, Fuorisalone.
In this article we discover the 6 most relevant trends for furniture in 2025 and the most significant innovations for contemporary living.
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1 - Bold and Neutral Colors
From shades of lavender to plum and eggplant, passing through forest green to shades of lime and mustard, not forgetting the world of blues and light blues to shades of orange and deep reds and burgundy: Milan Design Week 2025 saw a riot of colors paint the vast majority of furniture collections. Stains of color that embellish day and night settings with character through upholstered furniture with solid-colored covers or storage furniture, coffee tables with glossy lacquered shades: the future of design furniture has a chromatic quid. The trend of neutrals, however, endures effortlessly: palettes based on ivory, taupe, butter, camel, tobacco, and earth play the match with bold hues both coming out on top. Muted nuances are able to evoke feelings of calm and are therefore perfect for bringing designer yet reassuring and intimate interior spaces to life.
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From the top left: Zanotta, Molteni&C, Cassina (3,4,5 foto), Lago, Desalto, Lago, Ditre Italia, B&B Italia, Minotti
2 - Curves, everywhere
The trend of curved shapes that reached its peak during the latest edition of Milan Design Week 2025 does not seem to be stopping. The fulcrum of living, dining and night settings, the new furniture collections favor sinuous and generous silhouettes against to the rigorous volumes and sharp edges. In this sense, Lago presented the new Fluttua Roundy bed with a rounded headboard that makes it even more welcoming and reassuring. B&B Italia proposed the curved module of the famous sofa designed by Patricia Urquiola: the Tufty Time, now in its twentieth anniversary. The introduction of this new element offers the possibility of creating even more fluid and convivial configurations. Cesar debuts in the bathroom furniture sector with Ondula, designed by Garcia Cumini. It is a bathroom cabinet with a fluid design characterized by a series of continuous curves on the sides and fronts that look like light waves and create a sophisticated play of light and shade.
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From the top left: Cesar, Poliform, Cassina, Lago, Cattelan Italia
3 - Retrò Vibes from '60s and '70s
The exploration of past aesthetic codes by some brands such as Minotti and Baxter that investigate the design of the 1960s and 1970s continues. Baxter presented a collection that pays homage to the Californian interior aesthetic, condensing modernist elegance with material experimentation. A wave with a Mid-century feel with mixes of different materials such as chrome surfaces, precious leathers and fluid, futuristic forms, also embraced by Giampiero Tagliaferri in Minotti's Coupé system. It is a seating series connoted by rounded, overlapping volumes that pays homage to post-1950s modernism. A citation with a nostalgic mood that nevertheless lays the foundation for a collection projected to the needs of contemporary living. Coupé in fact retains its retro charm without falling into purely vintage design: proof of this is the possibility of creating customized layouts thanks to the compositional freedom of the modules as well as the technical devices that wink at ergonomics and comfort and the Minotti-style couture details such as the longitudinal stitching and the buttons on the backrests, expressions of the Italian brand's high level of craftsmanship.
The reference to the aesthetics of the past can also be felt in Molteni&C's 2025 collection, especially in the Eugène armchair, in which there are clear signs of a design belonging to past eras; starting with the traditional shapes and the glossy lacquered Polimex base.
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From the top: Baxter (1,2) e Minotti (3,4,5)
4 - Chandelier
Long “snubbed,” during the last edition of Euroluce 2025 the chandelier made a comeback. The elegant suspension lamp with decadent appeal is shedding its traditional and sometimes institutional look to take on new forms. Foscarini reinterprets it in a playful and light-hearted way with Allumette, a design by Francesca Lanzavecchia that focuses on the concept of asymmetry and balance balanced between rigorous geometries and soft lines. A chandelier for the center-room designed to have a dynamic presence, where each angle reveals a different face of the chandelier. Martinelli Luce updates the candelabra through a compositional and technological restyling with Multidot, a chandelier with spheres of light; small luminous points that almost look like pearls and create scenic compositions.
From the top left: Asteria e Allumette di Foscarini, Multidot di Martinelli Luce, Metrica di MOGG
5 - Textural transparencies
Among the recurring materials of the Milan design week is crystal, which abandons its original aspect, namely transparency, to take on new forms by becoming a surface with a more “mysterious” appeal. The glass in the 2025 furniture collections is fused, tarnished, textured thanks to ripples reminiscent of sea waves. In a large proportion of 2025 novelties, glass is full and smooth in smoked and bronze tones and is proposed as the sole material of choice as in Molteni&C's new Fleur coffee table or in those with organic shapes by Cassina. In lighting, on the other hand, we see the great return of blown glass as in the case of Luce Sferica and Luce Cilindrica by Flos, the new lamps by Ronan Bouroullec.
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From the top left: Cassina, Eforma, Cattelan Italia, Tom Dixon, Flos
6 - Glossy Lacquered Surfaces
Much like the trend of curved shapes, glossy lacquers continue to be in the spotlight of the furniture world. Paired with vibrant colors such as forest green, blues, reds and burgundy but also with more neutral ones such as sand, the glossy finish is able to enhance clean shapes and pure volumes thanks to the luminous effect it naturally offers due to the light bouncing directly off the surface.
In an interior architecture project, the choice of glossy finishes is advisable for one or very few pieces of furniture such as complements, tables, sideboards or coffee tables: furnishings that, in addition to performing their main functions, thus become design protagonists that give a high-impact appeal to the setting.
An interesting example are the settings proposed by Cassina, which presented the new Treflo table by Ronan Bouroullec with a base consisting of fluid volumes in combination with the iconic Bramante sideboard.
Molteni&C proposed settings with Diamond tables and the glossy lacquered Mateo as the only glossy colored furnishings.
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From the top left: Cassina, Molteni&C, Molteni&C e Zanotta
