Six new Fuorisalone venues

Fuorisalone 2026 is adding six first-time settings to Milan Design Week, turning private homes, a 1929 pool and a bonsai museum into exhibition stages. (wallpaper.com) Wallpaper* lists the new venues as Villa Pestarini, Casa Rossa, Palazzo Acerbi, Piscina Romano, Palazzo Olivazzi Crespi and the Crespi Bonsai Museum. Fuorisalone runs from April 20 to April 26, 2026, alongside the Salone del Mobile furniture fair. (wallpaper.com) (fuorisalone.it) The best-documented of the six is Villa Pestarini, a 1939 Modernist house by Franco Albini that has remained a private family residence until now. Alcova will use it as one of two 2026 sites, alongside the Baggio Military Hospital, after two editions in Varedo north of Milan. (wallpaper.com 1) (wallpaper.com 2) Fuorisalone has long depended on Milan’s palazzi, courtyards and institutions, but the 2026 program is pushing deeper into spaces that were previously inaccessible or simply off the usual route. Fuorisalone.it says this year’s citywide program again spreads across Milan from April 20 to April 26, with “Be the Project” as the official theme. (wallpaper.com) (fuorisalone.it) That shift is visible in the mix of buildings now being opened: a public swimming complex, decorated apartments, historic palaces and a museum in Parabiago outside central Milan. Fuorisalone.it’s own venue guide says the week is being shaped by former factories, historic villas, palaces, city icons and new showrooms. (wallpaper.com) (fuorisalone.it) Piscina Romano is one of the clearest examples. Fuorisalone.it says the pool opened in 1929, was designed by engineer-architect Luigi Lorenzo Secchi, and will host 6:AM’s glass exhibition inside a complex that still retains its period changing rooms, ticket office and Liberty-style building. (fuorisalone.it) Palazzo Acerbi brings a different kind of backdrop. Fuorisalone.it says the Baroque building at Corso di Porta Romana 3 is known for a cannonball embedded in its façade from the Five Days of Milan, and H&M HOME is using it to present a collaboration with Kelly Wearstler. (fuorisalone.it) The bonsai stop extends the map beyond Milan’s center. The Crespi Bonsai Museum in Parabiago opened on May 26, 1991, and the museum says it was the world’s first permanent bonsai museum and holds one of the largest bonsai collections outside Japan. (wallpaper.com) (crespibonsai.com) Palazzo Crespi, listed by Wallpaper* as Palazzo Olivazzi Crespi, is also entering the week’s venue circuit with Kaldewei’s “Bubbles of Time” installation. Fuorisalone.it says the presentation runs at Palazzo Crespi on Corso Giacomo Matteotti 1 with free entry and pre-registration. (wallpaper.com) (fuorisalone.it) The result is a Milan Design Week itinerary that asks visitors to look as hard at the buildings as at the objects inside them. In 2026, the venue itself is being treated as part of the exhibition. (wallpaper.com)