What the fashion houses propose for the home at Milan Design Week 2026

At the Milan Design Week 2026, the presence of major fashion maisons moves beyond orbiting the object to occupy the expanded territory of experience. Among immersive installations, furniture collections, and urban interventions, these brands reposition interior design as a strategic language, capable of translating brand codes into sensorial spaces. More than presenting pieces, these houses build narratives: paths that weave memory, matter, and identity in projects conceived to be lived in, not merely observed.

Whether by revisiting historical archives, exploring new materialities, or activating the everyday through immersive experiences, maisons such as Versace, Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Bottega Veneta, Marni, Gucci, and Issey Miyake reveal distinct approaches that converge on one point: the construction of complete universes where object, architecture, and narrative intertwine. Check out the selection below!

Versace Home

At Milan Design Week 2026, Versace Home presents a collection that deepens its investigation into contemporary living through its own reading of classicism. The proposal combines sculptural volumes, refined materials, and Italian savoir-faire, reinterpreting historical references through a current lens.

Icons of the maison, such as the Medusa, are translated into architectural gestures and luxurious finishes, creating pieces that balance expressive presence and everyday comfort. More than isolated objects, the collection is conceived as an integrated system in which each element has its own identity yet dialogues with the others in versatile compositions, adaptable to different configurations and lifestyles.

Among the launches, the Meteora sofa synthesizes this vision by reinterpreting classicism with rigorous lines and a sculptural structure. The Hestia armchair bets on a fluid, continuous form, while the Desmos explores the idea of structural connection through exposed bands that shape its silhouette. The Medusa Euphoria and Focus lighting fixtures translate symbols of the maison into objects of strong presence, with emphasis on the handcrafted work in Murano-blown glass. The collection is completed by pieces such as the Delphi chair, inspired by the circular architecture of the Tholos of Delphi, and the Argus poufs, conceived as a modular set.

During design week, the launches are on display at the Versace Home showroom in the Palazzo Versace, in Milan.

Louis Vuitton

At Louis Vuitton, the Objets Nomades collection gains a scenographic dimension as it fully occupies Palazzo Serbelloni, where the maison constructs a path that articulates heritage and experimentation. The 2026 edition is guided by a tribute to the Art Deco designer Pierre Legrain, whose graphic language and command of materials inform a series of reissues and new creations — from furniture to textiles and table objects.

By bringing together contemporary designers and artisans around this historical repertoire, the collection reinforces the dialogue between tradition and innovation, positioning design as a living continuity of the house’s savoir-faire.

The exhibition unfolds in a sequence of immersive projects, in which unprecedented pieces coexist with historical trunks and archive elements, creating a narrative that runs from Art Deco to contemporary production.

Collaborations with names such as Estudio Campana, Raw Edges, and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera expand this field, ranging from collectible objects to a monumental installation in the courtyard, where binding patterns are translated into a walkable surface.

The result is a staging that goes beyond the object and asserts itself as a spatial experience, in which design emerges as a sensorial and historical narrative.

Bottega Veneta

At Bottega Veneta, the activation takes the form of a sensorial investigation into matter and light with Lightful, an installation conceived by designer Kwangho Lee and presented at the boutique on Via Sant’Andrea in Milan.

Developed under the creative direction of Louise Trotter, the project starts from the maison’s central vocabulary — the intrecciato — to expand it at an architectural scale, through suspended structures formed by interlaced leather strips.

In shades of green and black chosen especially for the installation, these organic forms explore texture, surface, and three-dimensionality, while establishing a direct dialogue with the house’s artisanal tradition.

More than an installation, Lightful takes shape as a field of experimentation where the manual gesture meets luminous sculpture. Some of the pieces incorporate LED light sources, turning leather — Bottega’s emblematic material — into a vehicle for investigating transparency, shadow, and depth. Resulting from a collaborative process with artisans from the Montebello Vicentino atelier, the project reveals a precise tension between technical control and improvisation, characteristic of Lee’s work.

Gucci

At Gucci, design manifests as an exhibition narrative in Gucci Memoria, an immersive show curated by Demna and presented at the Chiostri di San Simpliciano during Fuorisalone 2026. Conceived as a continuous path, the project revisits the maison’s 105 years by articulating past and present from its Florentine origins. The scenography is structured in layers — tapestries, botanical projects, and interactive devices — creating an expanded field where different languages enter into dialogue.

At the center of the proposal, a cycle of twelve tapestries constructs a visual chronicle of the house, translating key moments in its trajectory, from Guccio Gucci’s training in London to the consolidation of its own aesthetic identity and its international projection.

Along the route, distinct creative eras take shape, with allusions to emblematic pieces such as the Jackie 1961 and Bamboo 1947 bags, in addition to the contributions of creative directors like Tom Ford, Frida Giannini, Alessandro Michele, and Sabato De Sarno, culminating in the current moment under Demna.

In parallel, a garden inspired by the Flora motif occupies the main cloister, while vending machines introduce a playful dimension by dispensing drinks from the Gucci Giardino, associated with characters from “La Famiglia.” The exhibition also extends beyond its physical limits, with the pre-launch of pieces with the Flora pattern at strategic addresses in Milan, reaffirming design as a narrative and sensorial language.

Hermès

At Hermès, the presentation of the maison collection unfolds as an immersive architectural landscape at the La Pelota space, where design is organized as a kind of sensorial cartography. Conceived by artistic directors Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry, the project transforms the project into a “city of objects,” in which white volumes, planes, and modular structures emerge as abstract constructions.

The scenography proposes a route that plays with distances, framings, and perspectives, gradually revealing pieces that seem to float or slip out of immediate reach, in a precise exercise in spatial perception and contemplation.

In this context, the new collection asserts itself through objects that rigorously explore matter, color, and technique with quiet precision, in continuity with the maison’s artisanal vocabulary. Glass, leathers, textiles, and ceramics appear in compositions that balance density and lightness, while patterns and surfaces evoke a contemporary reading of the domestic everyday.

Marni

At Marni, design materializes as everyday experience in Marni x Cucchi, an intervention that occupies the historic Pasticceria Cucchi during Milan Design Week 2026. Conceived as a tribute to Milanese rituals — from the morning cappuccino to the aperitivo — the project transforms the café into a living scenography, where everyday habits and gestures are elevated to the condition of a design language. ]

The collaboration establishes a dialogue between two identities deeply rooted in the city, merging the space’s heritage with the experimental aesthetic of the maison under the creative direction of Meryll Rogge.

The intervention, developed by the RedDuo studio, unfolds in a visual vocabulary that permeates every element of the project — from tableware and textiles to graphic design and uniforms. Shades of red and green, applied in retro striped and polka-dot patterns, build a narrative that articulates memory and contemporaneity, while objects such as cups and saucers become tangible extensions of the experience, also available for purchase.

Issey Miyake

Design is anchored in a radical investigation of matter at Issey Miyake with The Paper Log: Shell and Core, a project conceived by Satoshi Kondo of the Miyake Design Studio, in collaboration with Ensamble Studio. Presented at the brand’s flagship in Milan, the proposal starts from a precise conceptual gesture: reimagining the compressed paper rolls — a by-product of the maison’s characteristic pleating process — as raw material for furniture and sculptural objects.

These cylinders, originally destined for disposal, are reinterpreted as “logs”, whose marbled appearance evokes the growth rings of a tree, condensing time, process, and memory into a single structure.

The exhibition is organized into two complementary investigations — Shell and Core — that strain different states of matter. While Ensamble Studio treats paper as a sculptural skin, crystallizing its folds into almost architectural forms, the in-house team explores its structural density in furniture prototypes such as stools, tables, and seats. Subjected to processes of cutting, pressing, waxing, and molding, the material reveals a surprising breadth of qualities — from ethereal to massive — highlighting the three-dimensional potential of paper.