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title: "VoxelMatter’s best 3D printing installations from Milan Design Week 2025"
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# VoxelMatter’s best 3D printing installations from Milan Design Week 2025

Additive manufacturing is mostly seen as a future technology by professional operators in the design industry or as a technology of the past. But it's rarely the technology of the present, and this is a limit in developing real commercial applications. [VoxelMatters (via its previous names) has been observing the use of AM during the design week for over a decade](https://www.voxelmatters.com/revisiting-3d-printing-at-milan-design-week-over-the-years/). Initially, we even organized exhibits to show the potential of these technologies. However, not much has changed. AM is mostly used as an experimental project for futuristic designs or seen as a consolidated, rather "old" process for prototyping and tooling. Depending on the edition, very few or no 3D printed products are exhibited at the Salone del Mobile fair and the huge internal lighting show Euroluce, and this year was no different.

Commercial design products favor simple forms and extremely high-end, high-quality surfaces, which is the opposite of what 3D printing can offer, especially on life-size, functional products. Thus, 3D printing at the Salone del Mobile fair remains mostly confined to the SaloneSatellite section, where students and young, experimental design studios bring their creations. Here, you'll always find some very interesting experiments but none that can impact the design products market in the short term.

The Fuorisalone, which encompasses all the events that take place throughout the metropolitan city of Milan during Milan Design Week 2025, is where you'll find the most advanced and interesting 3D printing installations. Fuorisalone is not just a corollary to the actual fair. Over the past few years, it has become a huge event and an attraction in and of itself. However, most Fuorisalone installations are dedicated to designer products in general, while the fair focuses on furniture and lighting products, which represent the core of design products in [VoxelMatters' categorization as well](https://www.voxelmatters.report/product/consumer-products-am-2024/).

## High-end products by top brands

While most of the 3D printed products seen during Milan Design Week 2025 are not commercial products (or not yet, at least) a few top brands have identified 3D printing as a key technology to either explore new possibilities or promote their current activities. The only one currently serially manufactured is the Signify MyCreation line of designer lamps from the Dutch brand Signify (formerly part of Philips). These [are already serially produced in the order of several thousands in the Signify 3D printing farm](https://www.voxelmatters.com/this-is-how-signify-is-3d-printing-thousands-lamps/). Each year, Signify uses the Dutch Masters pavilion at Fuorisalone to present the latest creations. This year's highlight is [a stylish contemporary bar, designed specifically for the event in collaboration with Dekker Zevenhuizen and Triboo, illuminated entirely by Signify's award-winning luminaires](https://www.voxelmatters.com/signify-mycreation-shines-at-milan-design-week-2025/). The installation showcases Signify myCreation’s emphasis on circular design, advanced customization, and performance.

![Explore the latest insights on Milan Design Week 2025 and how additive manufacturing is shaping the design industry.](https://www.voxelmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/signify_HD3A0234-scaled.jpg)

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The next most impressive display of 3D printing capabilities applied to real products was at the CUPRA Design House. For the second year, the automotive brand CUPRA used its location in Milan to show off the latest interior and accessory design advances. CURPA has made advanced design one of the defining features of all its products, and additive manufacturing is present throughout its product development. “In CUPRA, design is at the heart of everything we do. The launch of CUPRA Design House is a testament to our passion for design, which goes beyond the automotive world, driven by creativity, innovation, and human connection,” said Ignasi Prieto, Chief Brand Officer of CUPRA.

[At Milan Design Week 2025, CUPRA highlighted its use of 3D printing as a key innovation within the new CUPRA Design House](https://www.voxelmatters.com/it/lo-stato-dellarte-dellautomotive-e-alla-cupra-design-house/). The brand showcased 3D printed structural interior components and debuted a fully 3D printed sneaker in collaboration with Zellerfeld, emphasizing personalization and fluid, parametric design. CUPRA also introduced a sustainable luggage line featuring 3D printed details and a concept lounge chair with 3D printed surfaces that respond to touch. Creative Head Francesca Sangalli underscored how 3D printing allows CUPRA to push design boundaries, enabling more precise, customizable, and waste-free production.

![Explore the latest insights on Milan Design Week 2025 and how additive manufacturing is shaping the design industry.](https://www.voxelmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/MDW_2025_IMG_5997.jpg)

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Zaha Hadid Architects is another regular high-profile presence at Fuorisalone. In 2017, the studio stunned visitors at the Pinacoteca di Brera with the Thallus pavilion, designed with and 3D printed by LFAM software specialist AI-Build. This year, the company presented Aevum, meaning eternity in Latin. This 6x6 meter concrete 3D printed structure includes waste marble dust and also has the structural properties necessary for large-scale architecture. The installation draws inspiration from the colonnade of the Statale University of Milan, engaging in a visual dialogue with it. It consists of arches of different heights misaligned with each other: each one is made of marble or cement. The result is an architecture that combines cutting-edge technologies with craftsmanship.

The marble arch is sculpted in solid Bianco Merano Gold marble and produced by A.A.T.C. and Co., while the 3D printed structure is made up with a cement mix developed by Sika and 3D printed by [Vertico](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/vertico/). At first sight, the structure seemed like a relatively easy task for the construction 3D printing specialist. CEO Volker Ruitinga explained the challenges involved: "If you look at the piece presented separately, you can see the large difference in layer height and the angles of the print. This is challenging from a slicing point of view and, in this respect, the installation was very complex. But this has little to do with the printed objects: We printed everything in 3 weeks, including a second, even larger arch.

![Explore the latest insights on Milan Design Week 2025 and how additive manufacturing is shaping the design industry.](https://www.voxelmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/MDW_2025_IMG_5880.jpg)

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When it comes to high-profile brands, Emporio Armani is among Italy's best-known brands around the world. The fashion house collaborated with Forestami. The initiative involves re-naturalizing the route of trolleybus lines 90/91, with the planting of 350 new trees, along with 60,000 shrubs and perennial plants along the path that crosses eight of the city's nine districts. The selected plant species were chosen for their resilience to urban stress and ability to improve air quality, acting as natural barriers against pollutants. In front of the Armani megastore, in a setting surrounded by plants in LFAM 3D printed vases, Forestami's custom-decorated Apecar offered visitors a special gift: a 3D printed flowerpot made from recycled materials and a biodegradable card that can be planted to grow wildflowers at home.

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Besides these top-tier brands, a few more specialized projects emerged that combined 3D printing and product design. Many found their "containers" within multi-company exhibits such as Alcova, Opificio, the newly inaugurated La Galleria, and the Worth Partnership Project (more on these below). Others emerged as stand-alone projects combining multiple partners. One of our favorites was Infill Heritage, [a modular 3D printed installation that pays homage to Milan’s architectural heritage while embracing contemporary digital fabrication methods](https://www.voxelmatters.com/bba-studio-presents-infill-heritage-installation-at-milan-design-week/). Created alongside BBOfficina and a network of renowned collaborators, including 3D printing studio [MakeAdditive](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/makeadditive/) and [3D printing hardware manufacturer BigRep](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/bigrep-gmbh/) (which has over 1,000 large-format 3D printers operating globally), the project is presented as a forward-thinking experiment that integrates architecture, advanced technology, and lighting to craft a new aesthetic dialogue.

![Explore the latest insights on Milan Design Week 2025 and how additive manufacturing is shaping the design industry.](https://www.voxelmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/MDW_2025_IMG_5937.jpg)

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Another favorite is the collaboration between Balena, a maker of flexible PHA biodegradable polymers, filament maker Recreus, and Milan-based 3D printing software studio MoonRabbit Lab (aka Adaptive Lab), which focuses specifically on footwear. Meeting with the studio's CEO Jesus Marini Parissi, we learned that they have been behind many high-profile 3D printed footwear designs we have covered, [including the Puma Mostro](https://www.voxelmatters.com/asap-rocky-puma-3d-printed-mostro-3d/). This year, they experimented with creating a series of modular footwear products using BioCir Flex3D filament.

![Explore the latest insights on Milan Design Week 2025 and how additive manufacturing is shaping the design industry.](https://www.voxelmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/MDW_2025_IMG_6004.jpg)

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## Euroluce

The most important "container" of all the Milan Design Week 2025 exhibits is the Salone del Mobile, one of the largest fairs in the world for any product. It occupies 12 pavilions of the giant Rho Fiera Milano facility. Its internal show, Euroluce, fills 4 of those pavilions. Besides the fact that the show's organization is impeccable and the media support is outstanding, it is always a bit frustrating for us when we visit to see that no commercial high-end furniture or lighting designer uses 3D printing as a visible manufacturing method.

We know from experience and witness accounts that many use 3D printing for prototyping and even for many internal parts and components. But very few can use 3D printing as the main production method. The reason, as we anticipated earlier, is that high-end design products focus on simple shapes and extremely high-quality finishes using expensive materials. This can be achieved with 3D printing only for small parts (for example, technical ceramics or some metals) at costs beyond commercial products. Using lower cost metals and plastics is becoming more affordable with LFAM processes such as WAAM or pellet extrusion but the quality of the finishes remains that of plastic or steel and advanced geometry alone does not always (or not yet) justify the cost of a designer product. Nevertheless, some are making efforts in this direction, leveragin especially the sustainability potential of AM processes and materials.

One of these companies, the only one we saw exhibiting at Euroluce, was [SIDE SpA](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/side-spa/) with its new Zero1 collection of lamps. These beautiful designs were created using recycled PETG materials. The company believes this production method is a viable solution for the future and has developed lamps that can fit seamlessly within any high-end house interior.

![Explore the latest insights on Milan Design Week 2025 and how additive manufacturing is shaping the design industry.](https://www.voxelmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SIDE-zero1-Salone-copia-1.jpg)

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Another 3D printed light lighting fixture shown at both Euroluce and Dutch Masters (Fuorisalone) was the Nuevo Alta (New Dawn) from Aga Blonska Studio. This 3D printed light object, made from polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA’s), an innovative bio-based material derived from microbes, is fully biodegradable under all conditions—even on a compost heap. The fixture was developed and printed by the [Dutch innovator 3D Makers Zone](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/3dmz-3d-makers-zone/), which played a crucial role in its technical realization.

## Salone Satellite

Salone Satellite is where most of the 3D printing-related projects are found, presented by young innovative design studios and design students from top universities. Products included furniture items from Danish designer [Zara Adler](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/zara-adler/) and a beautiful 3D printed ceramic collection from Jan Contala's newly launched [ceraLAB](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/ceralab/) studio in Issnbruk. These projects, created entirely by Contala using his own technology, also stood out for the custom 3D printing packaging (as can be seen in the ceramic cup in the photogallery below). German design studio [Morroni](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/morroni/) also presented its LFAM 3D printed Ruffini Chair.

![Explore the latest insights on Milan Design Week 2025, including Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone, and how additive manufacturing is shaping the design industry.](https://www.voxelmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/MDW_2025_IMG_5888-rotated-e1744646958689.jpg)

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One of the most curious lines of 3D printed products – with an interesting commercial potential – was InfillOut by designer Leo Koda. These were 3D printed with a particular type of infill so that they would change shape regularly and be "programmable" when immersed in hot water. The expanding heated air causes the walls and surfaces to inflate, giving the object a soft and unique look. Finally, the Future Footwear Department, an open-source baseline for footwear development of sizing and grading (with a last library of editable 3D models) hosted three interesting footwear models: the Traktor, created for Alchevsque by Fabrizio de Lucia, the [Code Footwear](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/code-footwear/) professional cleats from Jared Fiorovich and the Reptalons from [Outbreak Lab](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/outbreak-lab/).

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## Alcova

Back to the Fuorisalone, the Alcova exhibits (which I still have never had the chance to visit in person) have become a must-go-to for design professionals and they often feature fascinating 3D printing-related products. The main attraction at Alcova this year was PORTAL, a futuristic 3D printed furniture collection featuring 10 uniquely designed chairs. Created through a collaborative effort with AI design platform Vizcom and robotic 3D printing companies [Caracol](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/caracol-studio/) and DIVE, the project blends AI ideation with robotic additive manufacturing. The collection emphasizes sustainability, using recycled and eco-friendly materials, and is on display at Alcova, a reclaimed industrial site now used for art exhibitions.

Each chair is the vision of a different designer and explores themes like Techno-Casualism and childhood nostalgia. The installation also features live 3D printing demonstrations using Caracol’s HeronAM platform, showcasing the potential for localized, waste-reducing, on-demand production. PORTAL symbolizes a new era of design—where AI and 3D printing empower creativity, accelerate production, and support a circular, sustainable future.

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## Opificio and SuperStudio+

Another top spot for 3D printing has always been SuperStudio+ and the nearby Opificio in the Tortona district. This year, we could not pass by in person to see if there were 3D printed products, but the impression was that at SuperStudio+, 3D printing is considered a bit like old news. As far back as a decade ago, designers exhibiting here showed their SLS prototyping and production capabilities. Stratasys even chose this location to present and launch its TechStyle capabilities.

![Explore the latest insights on Milan Design Week 2025, including Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone, and how additive manufacturing is shaping the design industry.](https://www.voxelmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/MDW_2025_madeinadd.jpg)We know that our friends at [MadeinAdd](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/madeinadd/) presented their collaboration with Italdesign, one of the most important automotive design brands in Italy, at Opificio. At the RRD – Roberto Ricci Designs – showroom on Via Tortona 31, Italdesign developed a complex and inspired exhibition project that expressed the company’s holistic approach to the Connected Worlds within its vision. The [Quintessenza show car](https://www.voxelmatters.com/italdesign-leverages-stratasys-3dfashion-technology-for-latest-concept-vehicle/), returning from CES in Las Vegas, was just one of the exhibits in a space where automotive, transportation, and product design—spanning past and future, nature and advanced technology—alternate in the narrative, tracing a circular, fluid, and transdisciplinary movement.

## La Galleria

We made it to the launch party for La Galleria, a 100-meter-long gallery in a former factory facility that hosts several digital (and non-digital) artisan shops in the Certosa District. Our friends from 3D printing design and service provider [WhiteLabel](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/white-label/) have set up shop here and feature LFAM and clay capable technologies from WASP and [Ginger Additive](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/ginger-additive/). They also collaborate with Pescara-based [Treddy](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/treddy/) to produce parts using LFAM capabilities using Caracol's robotic technology—such as their shop's wall cover—and with AIVOX on parametric design and robotic manufacturing. Here, we also ran into an interesting concrete 3D printing project from [Centauroos](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/centauroos/), which looks to use recycled construction material - such as that from demolished buildings - to 3D print new concrete products.

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## Worth Exhibition

At La Galleria, we learned from our friends at Puntozero about another 3D printing-intensive exhibition in the Isola District: the WORTH Partnership Project. It is funded by the COSME Programme of the European Union to create and support transnational collaborations between designers, creative people, manufacturing enterprises (SMEs), crafters/makers and technology firms looking to develop design-driven and innovative products. At Milan Design Week 2025, the WORTH Exhibition showcased 69 projects that aim to redefine fashion, design, and sustainability.

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The one that first attracted us to go to the exhibit was RUIIN, a new concept of modular 3D printed footwear, designed using nTop by the experts at [Puntozero](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/puntozero-3d/) in collaboration with footwear designer Caspar Boehme. The collaboration was born through various connections, including nTop founder Bradley Rothenberg. Puntozero curated the 3D design and 3D printing, while Casper acted as a creative director and managed the RUIIN project. This truly disruptive approach can combine Carbon (DLS) and HP 3D printing (MJF) technologies, which are among the most advanced and production-friendly in footwear AM, and more traditional processes like 3D knitting.

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But several other projects also involved 3D printing. One was Memento Naturae, from Tellurico Design Studio, which explores the possibility of co-designing with Nature at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and contextual research. At Milan Design Week 2025, Tellurico showcased a preliminary selection of objects from the collection, produced in partnership with WASP to produce objects up to 1 meter in height. Another was Fauna, by Digital Craft by DVF, a concept for a 3D printed facade in harmony with nature. Agogic, a studio specializing in research and development for technical clothing systems, presented a line of 3D printed clips and accessories. At the same time, Bioweave introduced their innovative biomaterials for 3D printing that can also be hand-manipulated for traditional craftsmanship. Finally, Mosche Bianche and Bright Potato Studio presented their 3D printed Mediterranea customizable UV lamp.