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XS stands for EXTRA SUPERSTUDIO
Salone Internazionale del Mobile
Rho Fiera, Milan
Hall 24, Booth D33
April 8–13 / 9.30 am – 6.30 pm
XS is an exhibition presenting a selection of Poltronova’s iconic designs — like Passiflora by Superstudio, 1967 — alongside something unexpected.
🌼 The Passiflora lighting fixture comes from a painted cardboard prototype made for the exhibition “Superarchitettura” [December 1966], a manifesto of Radical Design.
🌼 The cardboard was replaced with a light–permeable material, transforming Passiflora into a truncated luminous column: a column whose deformed profile wavers between natural and artificial, in a game of allusions and ambiguities, corresponding to the statement of intent of Superstudio, summed up in the text “Invention Design and Evasion Design”.
🎵 Audio track by Tyops — @TyopsSounds on YouTube
#Poltronova #Superstudio #Passiflora #PassifloraLamp #RadicalDesign #PopDesign #Design #ItalianDesign #MadeInItaly #MilanoDesignWeek #MilanoDesignWeek2025 #Fuorisalone2025 #DesignWeek2025 #SaloneDelMobile #MDW2025 #MDW #SaloneDelMobile2025
Poltronova | Passiflora Lamp | Table Lamp | Superstudio | Lighting Fixture | Interior Design | Salone del Mobile 2025 | Radical Design
![XS stands for EXTRA SUPERSTUDIO
Salone Internazionale del Mobile
Rho Fiera, Milan
Hall 24, Booth D33
April 8–13 / 9.30 am – 6.30 pm
XS is an exhibition presenting a selection of Poltronova’s iconic designs — like Passiflora by Superstudio, 1967 — alongside something unexpected.
🌼 The Passiflora lighting fixture comes from a painted cardboard prototype made for the exhibition “Superarchitettura” [December 1966], a manifesto of Radical Design.
🌼 The cardboard was replaced with a light–permeable material, transforming Passiflora into a truncated luminous column: a column whose deformed profile wavers between natural and artificial, in a game of allusions and ambiguities, corresponding to the statement of intent of Superstudio, summed up in the text “Invention Design and Evasion Design”.
🎵 Audio track by Tyops — @TyopsSounds on YouTube
#Poltronova #Superstudio #Passiflora #PassifloraLamp #RadicalDesign #PopDesign #Design #ItalianDesign #MadeInItaly #MilanoDesignWeek #MilanoDesignWeek2025 #Fuorisalone2025 #DesignWeek2025 #SaloneDelMobile #MDW2025 #MDW #SaloneDelMobile2025
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XS stands for EXTRASOFT
XS is an exhibition presenting a selection of Poltronova’s iconic designs — like Rumble by Gianni Pettena, 1967 — alongside something unexpected.
☁️ Gianni Pettena’s Rumble sofa gets a new soul: its modular structure is dressed in white panno casentino fabric, enhancing the play of deconstructed volumes in a dialogue between softness and architecture.
Salone Internazionale del Mobile
Rho Fiera, Milan
Hall 24, Booth D33
April 8–13
9.30 am – 6.30 pm
🤍 Rumble is a playful sofa. It is a simple, original form, a womb where everything happens or has already happened, but which still suggests possibilities, other things that can happen there. It is an object that breaks up form as it breaks up function; it acquires meaning when the clean geometry of the initial status quo is upset by equally ungrammatical functions.
#Poltronova #GianniPettena #RumbleSofa #SaloneDelMobile2025 #MilanDesignWeek2025 #MDW2025 #ItalianDesign #PannoCasentino #Sofa
#InteriorDesign #Design #DesignWeek2025 #MilanoDesignWeek2025 #FurnitureDesign #FuoriSalone
Poltronova | Sofa | Interior Design | Salone del Mobile 2025 | Furniture Design | Interior Design

XS stands for EXTRA SYMBOLISM
XS is an exhibition presenting a selection of Poltronova’s iconic designs — like Mitzi sofa by Hans Hollein, 1981 — alongside something unexpected.
⭕️ The Mitzi sofa, designed by Hans Hollein, makes its debut to the general public with its distinctive érable burlwood finish. An object that challenges the dichotomy between function and symbol.
Salone Internazionale del Mobile
Rho Fiera, Milan
Hall 24, Booth D33
April 8–13
9.30 am – 6.30 pm
🔻 The Mitzi sofa, part of the rich production of the Austrian master Hans Hollein, highlights a rigorous design while staging of a dialectic between different connotations and symbolisms. Soft and rigid elements are present together in the materials and forms. Upholstered cushions and soft wool cloth come alongside the walnut, both solid and in sheets, of the structure, and the curved line of the backrest coexists with the straight line at the base, masculine and feminine together: a sofa with a woman’s name.
#Poltronova #HansHollein #MitziSofa#Design #MilanDesignWeek2025 #SaloneDelMobile2025 #PostmodernDesign #MilanoDesignWeek2025 #Fuorisalone2025 #DesignWeek2025 #SaloneDelMobile #MDW2025 #MDW #Mitzi #InteriorDesign
Poltronova Furniture | Hans Hollein | Sofa | Salone del Mobile 2025 | Furniture Design | Interior Design

XS stands for EXTRA SHAPE
Salone Internazionale del Mobile
Rho Fiera, Milan
Hall 24, Booth D33
April 8–13 / 9.30 am – 6.30 pm
XS is an exhibition presenting a selection of Poltronova’s iconic designs — like Mies by Archizoom Associati, 1969 — alongside something unexpected.
📐 The Mies armchair was born in 1969 from the idea of using a strip of para rubber or India rubber –strong, elastic materials– as a seat. The structure, a triangle in chrome–plated metal, brings out the purity of the silhouette. The headrest and footrest–lamp cushions are in ponyskin. The name emphasizes the similarity of the structure to the projects of Mies van der Rohe, as a tribute to the great master who died that same year.
🔗 The prototype, which is the gift made by Paolo Deganello to Dario Bartolini and Lucia Morozzi for their wedding, was born from the idea of using the typical element of industrial conveyor belts as a seat. It is a strip of natural rubber that is grafted onto the trapezoidal steel frame, fixing itself to two cylindrical sticks. In contrast with the seat, the headrest is in pony leather. The armchair is listed in the catalog by the company along with a luminous footrest with the same steel and pony finishes.
🎵 Audio track by Tyops — @TyopsSounds on YouTube
#Poltronova #RadicalDesign #MiesChair #Archizoom #ArchizoomAssociati #Design #SaloneDelMobile2025 #InteriorDesign #MiesArmchair #ItalianDesign #RadicalDesign #Chair #MadeInItaly #MiesVanDerRohe #MilanoDesignWeek2025 #Fuorisalone2025 #DesignWeek2025 #SaloneDelMobile #MDW2025 #MDW
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Poltronova presents: XS
Salone Internazionale del Mobile
Rho Fiera, Milan
Hall 24, Booth D33
April 8–13 / 9.30 am – 6.30 pm
ExtraSurface is an exhibition presenting a selection of Poltronova’s iconic designs—alongside something unexpected.
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Info and registration:
www.salonemilano.it
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🌟 Our beloved @bethanlaurawood! 🌟
From the Terrazzo Quarry at the Design Museum to the cover of Door Magazine, Bethan keeps inspiring us with her vibrant, playful vision.
— Designed for the Platform exhibition, Terrazzo Quarry is a interactive soft sculpture that show cases the Terrazzo pattern developed for Poltronova.
Giant rocks extrude out from the ground blurring the line between 2D and 3D pattern and form inviting the public to sit lean and explore their soft forms. Bethan decided to create a super fake terrazzo who’s precious stones could have been mined from the psychedelic landscape that many of the icon designs from Poltronova’s catalogue evoke.
Terrazzo Quarry, Designed by Bethan Laura Wood Studio in collaboration with Poltronova, 2024
Courtesy of Poltronova & Bethan Laura Wood Studio
PLATFORM: Bethan Laura Wood
14 FEBRUARY 2025 — 25 JANUARY 2026
PLATFORM is an annual display dedicated to showcasing contemporary design practice.
@designmuseum
📸 PLATFORM: Bethan Laura Wood 2025 © Jo Underhill for the Design Museum @jounderhill
— 𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 - 𝗕𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡 𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗥𝗔 𝗪𝗢𝗢𝗗 @door_repubblica
“People are afraid of color. I don’t know why, as this feeling doesn’t belong to me. What I do know is that color is powerful. Most people think they have no opinion about it, but put them in a colorful environment and, even if they don’t know why, they will have an emotional reaction”.
📖 Written by Marta Galli @lilahaus
📸 Photography by Alexander Coggin @alexandercoggin
— Terrazzo Printed Fabric by Bethan Laura Wood, 2022
Bethan Laura Wood’s residency in a Venetian palazzo in 2010 inspired a kaleidoscopic terrazzo pattern. The precious stones, freed from the floor and landscape, are reinterpreted in a printed fabric for Poltronova, offering a unique tactile and visual experience.
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