Indonesia is the first stop on the Salone global tour: from 18th September to 18th October 2026, at Indonesia Design Week, the SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection is showcasing 27 years of talent, enterprise and the future of design.
Not just Milan, not just products, not just April. The Salone del Mobile.Milano is kicking off its new international tour in Indonesia – a rapidly evolving market and an increasingly important hub for architecture, interiors, contract design and property - bringing one of the most vibrant legacies of its recent history to South-East Asia: the SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection, a tangible demonstration of just how the event has become a platform capable of generating relationships, content, knowledge and opportunities for the entire design ecosystem. In Jakarta, as part of Indonesia Design Week, the Townhall at Indonesia Design District (IDD) PIK2 is hosting the SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection Exhibition 1998–2026 from 18th September to 18th October - a selection of products that transforms the SaloneSatellite archive into a living atlas of connections.
“The Salone del Mobile.Milano was founded in Milan but has always grown through the relationships it forges with the world. There are places where the future of design is particularly clear to envisage, because economic, social and cultural transformations are all taking place simultaneously. Indonesia today is one such place. Alongside rapid urban development lies a profound material culture and a new generation that is finding contemporary ways to bring together industry and craftsmanship, local resources and innovation, and identity and international openness. For the Salone, being here means engaging with this transformation, fostering a dialogue between its own network of companies, designers and expertise and new sources of energy, and, above all, allowing this engagement to broaden our horizons. For me, this is the most interesting aspect of being international," said Maria Porro, president of the Salone del Mobile.Milano.
Following on from Hong Kong in 2024 and the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Jakarta marks the Permanent Collection’s third international tour and heralds a new chapter in the Salone del Mobile.Milano’s global journey. The choice of location was determined not only by the exhibition itself - bringing SaloneSatellite as an integral part of the event’s internationalisation strategy, with its living archive of prototypes that have turned into products, young designers who have become leading figures, and encounters that have become industrial narratives, it means kicking off the international tour in the very place where the future of design and the sector is most clearly discernible: in the dialogue between talent, business and culture.
The exhibition is showcasing 55 objects selected from the 415 making up the Permanent Collection, which has been housed and exhibited since 2018 at the Artwood Academy in Lentate sul Seveso, in the heart of Brianza. This selection spans almost thirty years of SaloneSatellite and encapsulates the deepest meaning of its mission: to identify talent whilst it is still in the research phase, to connect it with the production system, and to follow its evolution over time. Not, therefore, a retrospective, but a dynamic map of what design can become when it finds the right context in which to flourish.
“The Permanent Collection is not a static archive but a living landscape of encounters: young designers, companies, materials, cultures and possibilities. Bringing it to Jakarta, as the first stop on the Salone del Mobile.Milano’s new international tour reaffirms SaloneSatellite’s mission: to give visibility to talent, create concrete connections with the world of production, and show how a good idea can travel, grow, and become a product, a career, and a culture. Every object tells a story of a beginning but also of a possible future,” said Marva Griffin Wilshire, Founder and Curator of SaloneSatellite and Ambassador for International Relations at the Salone del Mobile.Milano.
“Hosting the SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection represents an important milestone, not only for us but for the Indonesia Design District PIK2 as a whole,” said Ipeng Widjojo, CEO of IDD PIK2. “It reflects the spirit of international exchange that we wish to promote: a dialogue capable of connecting global design excellence with Indonesia’s burgeoning creative energy, its local craftsmanship and future generations of designers.”
Promoted by IDD and organised by Amantara, the hospitality and lifestyle division of the Agung Sedayu Group, Indonesia Design Week is held in the Indonesia Design District PIK2, a new hub dedicated to design, architecture and lifestyle in the northern metropolitan area of Jakarta. Within this context, the presence of SaloneSatellite and the collaboration with IDD form part of the wider international initiative that Salone del Mobile.Milano has been pursuing this in recent years with the support of the Italian Trade Agency (ICE): a project aimed at forging new links between Italian design culture and rapidly evolving economic and creative contexts. The Permanent Collection exhibition thus provides a concrete opportunity for dialogue with designers, businesses, architects, developers, cultural professionals and creative communities in South-East Asia, a region where design is playing an increasingly significant role in urban, economic and cultural development processes.
The exhibition also forms part of the tenth edition of Italian Design Day, an initiative promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation and the Ministry of Culture to highlight and promote the excellence of Italian design around the world. This year’s edition, entitled RE-DESIGN. Regenerating spaces, objects, ideas and relationships, sees Marva Griffin Wilshire in her capacity as Italian Design Ambassador in Jakarta for the second consecutive year.
“Exhibiting the SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection in Jakarta holds special significance. Created to provide a platform for young designers from around the world, SaloneSatellite embodies one of the most important qualities of Italian design culture: the ability to embrace a wide range of talents, styles and cultures and to foster dialogue between them. In a young, dynamic country rich in traditions such as Indonesia, this ethos finds particularly fertile ground. This is also why the Italian Embassy, together with the ICE Agency and the Italian Cultural Institute, wholeheartedly supports this initiative,” said Roberto Colaminè, Italian Ambassador to Indonesia.
The exhibition design, by the architects Ricardo Bello Dias and Hariadna Pinate, recreates the SaloneSatellite atmosphere and exhibition layout in Jakarta, offering visitors the same sense of discovery that characterises the event during the Salone del Mobile.Milano. The exhibition is organised into four platforms, delineated by vertical and horizontal elements enclosing and punctuating the space, guiding the public through the various sections of the exhibition. An integral part of the narrative is a large backlit panel echoing the graphics of the Permanent Collection and becoming an exhibit in its own right: a two-dimensional surface that accompanies, guides and enhances the interpretation of the 55 objects on display. Against this backdrop, the SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection Exhibition 1998–2026 brings together works that have become icons of contemporary design alongside more recent projects, demonstrating how ideas that started off as prototypes have stood the test of time to become defining pieces.
The icons of contemporary design include the Spun lamp by Sebastian Wrong for Flos, the Chab tray-table by Nendo/Oki Sato for DePadova, the Plopp pouffe by Oskar Zięta, the Bell coffee table by Sebastian Herkner for ClassiCon, the Introverso washbasin by Paolo Ulian for Antoniolupi, and the Falstaff armchair by Stefan Diez for Dante - Goods and Bads, the Daydream daybed by Mist- o for Living Divani, the Little Big Chair by Big-Game for Magis, the Ribbon Chair by Nika Zupanc for Qeeboo, Blue Chair by Francesco Faccini for Billiani and the Mesh suspended lamp by Francisco Gomez Paz for Luceplan.
Alongside the long-standing favourites, the selection features small-scale objects that immediately convey the power of design insight: the Block Lamp by Harri Koskinen for Design House Stockholm, the wooden coat hanger by Studiomama that later featured in the Fritz Hansen catalogue, the Cinema glass bookends by Jonathan Radetz for Schönbuch, the Trace vases by Francesco Forcellini for Cappellini, the Lab candleholder by The Swedes for Habitat, the Papermaster magazine rack by Norway Says for Swedese, the Tête à Tête salt and pepper set by Staffan Holm for David Design, the Silence rug by Permafrost and the Oaki Chair by Stine Aas for Northern. The exhibition also features the Balancing Boxes by Front for Porro, the latest addition to the Permanent Collection, number 415, a further step in the Swedish duo’s exploration of ‘design bymotion'.’
The exhibition also highlights collaborations between young designers and companies capable of recognising their potential: the From the Moon lamp by Atelier Ferraro for Ligne Roset, the Lamp06 by Nathalie Dewez, the Oto lamp by OTO.berlin for Belux, and the Daze coffee table by Truly Truly for Tacchini. These are concrete examples of one of SaloneSatellite’s most crucial functions: facilitating the coming together of design research and production and of individual vision and industrial development.
One section of the exhibition is devoted to projects that have become collectable or are recognised for their cultural value: the Fish Chair by Satyendra Pakhalé for Cappellini, the Cell Easy Chair by Anon Pairot for Restrogen, the Four mirror by Bertrand Pincemin for DMA Production, the Icon chair by Jan Plechac, the When Jim comes to Paris guest bed by Matali Crasset for Domeau & Pérès, and the Airbag chair by Ilkka Suppanen with Pasi Kolhonen for Snowcrash, a cult object from the first season of SaloneSatellite.
The collection also documents the acquisition of certain pieces by major international museums. Examples include Zeitdokument (Time Document) by the German collective Bär + Knell, acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; the foldable Satellite centrepiece by Carlo Contin, now on display at the MoMA Design Store in New York; and the Benna bench by Lorenzo Damiani with Daa, also produced in the Rosso Triennale version for the 21st International Exhibition of the Triennale di Milano, Design after Design.
The exhibition also traces the evolution of the profession of the designer, with designers today increasingly called upon to act as authors, craftspeople, researchers and entrepreneurs. This is illustrated by the Piraruc armchair in nautical rope by the Brazilian Sérgio J. Matos, the Frame cabinet by Lukas Dahlén for Ringvide, the Nebula lamp by Mirei Monticelli made from banana fibres, the Bookstack bookshelf by the Korean group Umzikim, Andrey Budko’s Hear My Roooar rug, Elise Luttik’s Upside Down Chair and Massimo Duroni’s Svaso plant pot holder – created by assembling simple plastic tubes and, as early as 1999, an expression of a low-impact design approach.
The Jakarta leg of the exhibition also serves as a tribute to its host city. The Plank Chair by Studio Hendro Hadinata, developed in collaboration with the Indonesian brand EVERY Collections, based in Jakarta, is making a symbolic return ‘home’. This tribute will extend across Asia with the bamboo vases by Shahril Faisal, linked to the presence of the Malaysian collective Tanggam at SaloneSatellite; the metal tray by the Korean designer Suntae Kim; and the interlaced screen lamp by the Taiwanese design studio ViiChendesign for Camino.
The more poetic and experimental dimension, which has always been part of SaloneSatellite’s identity, is firmly present, evoked by three lamps: Memento by Tonerico:INC, presented in 2005; Aether by the Aatismo studio for Lumina, featuring a Japanese organza petal suspended inside a borosilicate glass bell; and Focus X5 by Yuji Okitsu for DCW éditions, a mobile light sculpture that marries astronomical inspiration and kinetic lightness with formal sensitivity.
The selection also includes projects linked to the SaloneSatellite Award, which celebrated its fifteenth edition in 2026: the Colibrì loudspeaker by Venezuelan designer Juan Cortizo for the Quibor collection, which received an Honourable Mention in 2025; the Seasons collection of silicone plates by Nao Tamura, which won a prize at the first edition of the Award in 2010 and was immediately put into production by Covo.
Rounding off the exhibition are several products that have netted the ADI Compasso d’Oro, Italy’s most prestigious design award: the Counterbalance wall lamp by Daniel Rybakken for Luceplan, the Klipper sound-absorbing panel by Felicia Arvid for Caimi, and the Pli paper lamp, developed through the same research collaboration with Foscarini; and the Origata console table by Porro, designed by Nao Tamura and fresh from receiving a Special Mention at the 2026 ADI Compasso d’Oro.
Taken as a whole, the SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection Exhibition 1998–2026 is not merely celebrating a history. It is setting it on a new course. Each object on display recounts a decisive moment: the encounter between a young designer and a company, between a visionary and a material, and between a local culture and a global market. From Jakarta, the Salone del Mobile.Milano is thus embarking on a new international trajectory, reaffirming its role as a platform capable of forging relationships, opening up new territories and accompanying design to places where the future is already taking shape.