Pierre-Yves Rochon special guest at Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025

Design is a creative process that spans the ages, reinterpreting the past and intuiting the future through the language of the present. From this perspective, the 63rd edition of the Salone del Mobile.Milano reflects on design as a universal language that connects epochs and cultures, mixes tradition and innovation, and promotes the dialogue between past and future as a driving force for a dynamic and innovative design culture, with a new exhibition route, A Luxury Way, in Pavilions 13 and 15. 

This informed the idea of commissioning the French architect Pierre-Yves Rochon with creating an installation affirming the importance of time and experience in interior design inspired by tradition, yet reinterpreted in a contemporary key. The goal was to valorise the legacy of the past and project it into the future. A chameleon-like designer and master of luxury hospitality, Pierre-Yves Rochon, at the helm of his eponymous interior design studio, has devoted 45 years to the pursuit of true absolute luxury, designing prestigious interiors for hotellerie chains such as Four Seasons, Ritz, Fairmont, and Waldorf Astoria and restaurants for Michelin chefs such as Joël Robuchon and Alain Ducasse. 

He has conceived Villa Héritage for the Salone, a space in which design becomes a shared and timeless idiom, capable of bringing all the arts into dialogue and making people reflect on the idea of transmission. Elegant and evocative, Villa Héritage redefines the concept of interior design, transforming it into a bridge that connects memory and innovation and where luxury is not just aesthetics, but a multi-sensory experience made up of harmony, culture and timeless charm. Villa Héritage has been designed in the shape of a square: the installation welcomes, inviting pause and reflection and expressing a discreet, silent beauty that can be perceived without necessarily being explained. Each room is a chapter in a story, in which design and the arts are intertwined. There is the white room, in which light becomes cinema and projection transforms surfaces into visual poetry. The winter garden is reminiscent of Italian landscapes, with bright green hues. The red salon explodes with all the theatricality of Italian opera, while the plum-coloured library invites you to lose yourself in literature, a tribute to the ideas that have shaped our culture. In the centre is the patio dedicated to music, where an Alpange piano finds its natural home: the notes played and the silences shared are transformed into collective emotions. Villa Héritage is not only a tribute to design, it is a statement of intent: every detail speaks of heritage and innovation, of the past reflected in the present to imagine the future.