Eight designers to know from Rossana Orlandi Gallery’s Milan Design Week 2025 exhibition

The Milan Design Week schedule is always packed, but Wallpaper* editors never regret making time to visit Rossana Orlandi Gallery at 14 via Matteo Bandello. The space, which is housed in a former tie factory positioned around a courtyard draped in century-old strawberry grape vines, is a mecca for design.

At any one time, the gallery is home to a sprawling roster of exhibitors; for Milan Design Week 2025, Rossana Orlandi Gallery presented ‘RoCollectible 2025’, a showcase of over 90 designers.

Rossana Orlandi herself is a prominent gallerist who pivoted from a 30-year career in fashion to design, going on to launch the careers of prominent designers including Maarten Baas, Formafantasma, Nacho Carbonell and Piet Hein Eek. She curated ‘RoCollectible 2025’ with her daughter, Nicoletta Brugnoni, framing the exhibition as ‘a journey between matter, memory and beauty’. It presented a panorama of contemporary design with a focus on material exploration and aesthetic beauty.

Here are some of the standout exhibitors seen at Rossana Orlandi Gallery during Milan Design Week 2025.

BCXSY X Lobmeyr

Dutch-Japanese design collective BCXCY partnered with Viennese crystal manufacturer Lobmeyr to showcase two key lighting projects at RoCollectible 2025. ‘Ground Control’ is a portable light inspired by Lobyer’s ‘Metropolitan’ chandelier, featuring faceted crystals and precision-engineered hardware, infused with Space Age innovation and controlled via an app. The collaboration also includes ‘Archive Lights’, which draws from Lobmeyr's archive, collected over two centuries. ‘We wanted to take these pieces, which are normally just lying there collecting dust, and bring them back to life, creating a collection that literally and figuratively highlights them,’ says Boaz Cohen, one half of BCXSY. The lights contain exquisite crystal elements and chandelier components, illuminated by LED lights for a mesmerising effect.

Draga & Aurel

Draga & Aurel, founded in 2007 by Draga Obradovic and Aurel K Basedow, is a multidisciplinary art, design and furnishing studio. At Milan Design Week 2025, it showcased several pieces in a psychedelic mirrored space. ‘Phebe’ is a handmade pendant lamp made of Lucite and epoxy resin, while the ‘Cadre’ sideboard has an acrylic resin structure and sliding doors that create shifting colour compositions. The ‘Rescue Me’ series, meanwhile, is an upcycling project where discarded furniture is transformed with resin and fluorescent accents, creating tactile paintings (Draga & Aurel is considered something of a pioneer in upcycling). 'Our works emerge from a constant interplay of transparencies and layered materials and colours, always in flux,' say the designers. 'Our creations are dynamic and ever-changing – shifting with the light, the perspective, and the surrounding space.'

Aline Asmar d’Amman

Architect Aline Asmar d'Amman presented ‘The Power of Tenderness’, an exhibition described as an ‘invitation to softness in our interiors through the poetry of design’. D'Amman’s soft space featured her ‘Georgia’ lounge seating; the ‘Béton Littéraire’ (‘literary concrete’) bookshelves; candy-coloured onyx tables and more. To complete this confection of a collection, the architect collaborated with chef Cesare Murzilli to create a cake that echoed the sensual shapes of her sofas, to be served during Milan Design Week.

Craftica

Craftica Gallery made its debut at Milan Design Week with an exhibition titled ‘Emotions Passion Burgundy. Artigiani Polacchi’. The space, the floor of which was covered in sand, showcased contemporary Polish design, featuring works by makers including Zofia Sobolewska-Ursic, Formsophy (Alicja Prussakowska and Jakub Kijowski) and Alicja Patanowska. The space brought together works that balance traditional techniques with contemporary aesthetics, and was bursting with shades of purple, representing, says the gallery, ‘prestige and artistic maturity’.

Cyryl Zakrzewski