The best lighting designs from Milan Design Week 2025

Another week of design and the glitz and glam that surrounds it has come and gone in Milan. After the jet lag and exhaustion trickles away what remains of Milan Design Week are the bright realizations released from the flurry of exhibitions. As this year’s edition coincided with Salone del Mobile’s Euroluce, lighting took center stage both at the fair grounds and beyond. The following lighting products remained at the top of the crop, as they showcase both technical know-how and a penchant for a visual language. Here are the top lighting designs from Milan Design Week 2025.

shiro by santa and cole — Slats surround a cubic form in Shiro (Enric Badrinas)

santa and cole during milan design week — The lighting was designed in 1998 by Antoni Arola (Enric Badrinas)

Shiro by Santa & Cole

First conceived in 1998 by Antoni Arola, Shiro is an outdoor lamp defined by slats that clad a cubic form. The lighting, now available in new variations, emphasizes the dialogue between architecture and the nature that surrounds it, a conversation that’s heightened with the placement of outdoor lighting. The rational design and soft, warm glow provides thoughtful illumination in the various forms it takes: portable light, standing lamp, or fixed in place.

euroluce 2025 offerings by davide groppi — This optical system creates a precise, almost metaphysical effect (Courtesy Davide Groppi)

OneOff by Davide Groppi

A large overhead light that’s not scary, OneOff appears like a skylight diffusing soft illumination into space. This special optical system creates a precise, almost metaphysical effect. The gesture is made through a floor lamp or portable table lamp that focuses on the lighting on the ceiling.

artemide and SOM — At Milan Design Week, Artemide and SOM mounted an exhibition together (Courtesy Artimide/SOM)

Tetras by SOM for Artemide

In collaboration with Artemide, SOM designs a modular lighting solution that images light as an architectural building block, a set of lights that can be used in a series to create layers of illumination. During Milan Design Week, the pair mounted an installation named after the design that emphasizes geometry and light.

objects of common interest during MDW 2025 — Each design gestures toward wrapping, unfolding, and curving (Yiorgos Kaplanidis)

Voids Rollers by Objects of Common Interest

Presented by The Breeder Gallery at Alcova, these fun, quirky illuminations challenge traditional form-making by prioritizing negative space within a particular method of casting. Each design bends, folds, or wraps, gesturing toward the molds that created the form.

linked by flos — Linked is a series of glass pieces that connect together (Courtesy FLOS)

Linked by Michael Anastassiades for FLOS

Linked is a series of luminous linear glass that, as its name suggests, link together to create sculptural lighting befitting the space. Form and function are united as the glass pieces’ shapes reveal the way the system works. The pieces can be unlinked and relinked to create easy and endless shapeshifting light systems.

A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE lamps — Pleats define these delicate and sculptural lamps (Courtesy A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE)

TYPE-XIII atelier oï project by A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE

Designer studio atelier oï translates the pleats, iconic to and signature of Issey Miyake, to lighting design in a collaborative exhibition between interior and fashion. The delicate and sculptural lamps take up organic curves and biophilic forms, clad in pleats that softly glow, and surrounded in a halo of neat wires. The series of lights is a clear visual collaboration between the two brands.

marset lauro — Lauro was released in 1978 and is now re-issued (Courtesy Marset)

lauro at euroluce — The lamp is defined by its swirling steel base (Courtesy Marset)

Lauro by Marset

Designed by P. Aragay and J. Pérez Mateo, Lauro captured the innovation of its era when it was released in 1973 back when bending steel was a massive feat. The light, nearly fifty years later, has been reissued in a table and floor edition. New to the original design is a wall lamp variation. Both the original and novel issues of Lauro speak to the compelling sculptural simplicity of the design decades later.