While walking the halls of SaloneSatellite, Salone del Mobile’s international platform for young and emerging talent under the age of 35, Interior Design editors spotted so many promising designs that two show roundups were in order. Take a look at even more fresh perspectives and bold ideas on display in Milan, from creative rethinking of materials to reshaping how we interact with objects. This year, top honors in the SaloneSatellite Awards went to Japan’s Super Rat, who showcased contemporary vessels blending natural bark and dye. We also saw a soft and slim strand of light that can be strung up in endless ways, an expressive pink toilet challenging anti-LGBTQ+ narratives, tableware made of mushrooms, and much more.
Check Out Standout Designs From SaloneSatellite 2025
Utsuwa-Juhi by Super Rat
Photography by Ludovica Mangini/courtesy of Salone del Mobile.
A series of vessels influenced by traditional Japanese craft took home first place in the SaloneSatellite Awards. With softness belying their strength, Utsuwa-Juhi by Japanese design studio Super Rat (founded by Kazuki Nagasawa) are sustainably handmade from Trachycarpus fortunei bark and iron scraps and dyed using natural pigments (a persimmon tannin solution).
Fil Rouge by Riccardo Toldo
Photography by Ludovica Mangini/courtesy of Salone del Mobile.
A soft and slim (1.8 millimeters) filament light that can be strung up in various configurations is the third prize winner. Inspired by the East Asian myth of the red thread, which suggests there are no chance meetings between destined lovers, this feat of minimalist engineering is powered by opposing electrical poles.
Moon by YIF Design
Photography courtesy of YIF Design.
In poetic tribute to the night sky, YIF Design captured the moon’s soft glow and serene presence in Moon. The table lamp’s strategically unbalanced composition—suspended, just as the moon seems to be—consists of a frosted glass shade hovering above a slender stem anchored by a circular metal base.
Quibor Project by Juan Cortizo
Photography by Ludovica Mangini/courtesy of Salone del Mobile.
A Special Mention in the SaloneSatellite Awards, Quibor Project by Juan Cortizo is a collection of speakers that bridge traditional Venezuelan woodworking and cutting-edge acoustics. Handcrafted by master carpenters from Guadalupe, the speakers demonstrate the unexpected role technology can play in cultural preservation.
Queering Bathrooms by Gregor Jahner
Photography courtesy of Gregor Jahner.
Photography courtesy of Gregor Jahner.
In recent current events, the bathroom has been a site of protest. In response, Gregor Jahner introduces Queering Bathrooms which reimagines the toilet hue (why white when it can be pink?) and shape (it appears to cheekily stick its tongue out). Included in a collective project for the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and crafted from porcelain, varnished MDF, and 3D printed materials, the toilet is intended to confront anti-LGBTQ+ narratives.
.SHH. by SYLIA
Photography courtesy of SYLIA.
The .SHH. tableware collection, created by sustainable design studio and creative bio-lab SYLIA in collaboration with designers Gabriel Freitas and Tiago Volpato, is fabricated entirely from mushrooms. Grown from agricultural and textile waste via mycofabrication—a circular design method rooted in fungi—the collection tasks nature as a co-creator. Notably, SYLIA is the first exclusively mycelium-focused design studio to exhibit at SaloneSatellite.
3modality by Isenia Design
Photography courtesy of Isenia Design/Maria Isenia Spatola.
3Modality is an innovative, compact, multifunctional kitchen tool that merges three actions—chopping, grating, and sieving—into one bendable, ergonomic device. Inspired by the spatial logic of the revolutionary Frankfurt Kitchen designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky in 1926, it is crafted from stainless steel with hand-carved wood handles with intuitive curves.
Flowy Lamp No.1 by G Home
Photography courtesy of G Home.
In the pursuit of organic forms, G Home decided to use them. Flowy Lamp No.1 employs the natural shape and hollow structure of a dried gourd—the hard-shelled, non-edible fruit typically cultivated as ornaments—in apt celebration of nature’s irregularity and its untapped potential for sustainable materials.
Bunho Screen by Studio Silva
Photography courtesy of Studio Silva.
Designer Ruben Silva of Studio Silva infuses the serenity of nature into architectural form with the Bunho Screen. Inspired by the Portuguese tradition of bunho weaving, the sculptural room divider consists of a solid wood frame that holds an airy yet intricate mesh of handwoven lake reed (bunho), skillfully crafted by local artisans.