22-27 April 2009, Milano Italy. World’s largest international trade fair.

Since its start over 40 years ago, the Milan Salone has has become Europe’s largest furniture and interior international trade fair. Every year starting in mid-April the exhibition attracts the world’s renowned designers, architects, buyer, and journalists. The Milan Salone does not stop with the exhibition fair, it is an event that spreads and consumes all of Milan city. While exhibitors round approximately 1500 companies, showcased items from all corners of the fashion industry as well as various industrial goods, making it the world’s largest design exhibition. An more appropriately, call Milan Design Week, this is when the world’s brands come to hold individual events in and around the city to promote and communicate their designs to the public. Not just a simple exhibition, but a movement that transforms a city into an exciting festival.

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