Milan's Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone have been postponed until 2021
After the initial postponement to June 2020, the events have officially been cancelled for this year
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March 31st, 2020
March 31st, 2020
UPDATE 31.03.20: It's been only a month since the Salone del Mobile, seen the fast and rapid outbreak of Coronavirus in Italy, decided to postpone the biggest design and furniture fair in the world until June 2020, instead of the classic spring days where the fair usually takes place. Due to the evolution of the situation, that has turned into a global pandemic, Salone del Mobile, and Fuorisalone with it has officially been cancelled and postponed until 2021 and will take place from April 13 to 18. It was almost a forced decision, as also the biggest sporting event in the world, Tokyo Olympics, have been postponed to 2021.
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The Coronavirus continues to shock Milan. After Armani, who chose to walk the runway behind closed doors during Milan Fashion Week; after the postponement of Mido, the most important eyewear fair in the world, which was scheduled from February 29 to March 2, the Salone del Mobile and the Fuorisalone will also be postponed to summer: Design Week will take place from Tuesday, June 16th to Sunday, June 21st. The decision, which, among many repercussions, will produce estimated damage for the city of more than 120 million euros, was announced in these hours by Mayor Beppe Sala together with the organization of the Salon, convened to assess whether or not it was the case to cancel this year's edition.
Already in mid-February, when the Coronavirus emergency had not yet touched Italy, there was talk of an expected drop of 30-35 thousand visitors from Asian countries out of a total of 220-250 thousand. Now that eleven of the most fragile and elderly patients have died from the virus in northern Italy, the government has declared a state of emergency and quarantined a dozen small towns near Milan, the situation has plummeted. The cancellations have multiplied, not only of Asian buyers and exhibitors, seriously putting the world's leading Design event at risk.
Milan Design Week is just one of the last international events to suffer the damage of the virus. Due to the increasing spread of the COVID-19, the Mobile World Congress, the most important mobile phone fair scheduled for the end of February in Barcelona, was also cancelled, while the Light Building fair was postponed between mid and late September 2020. Frankfurt.
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