Salone Raritas Lands At Milan: Formafantasma Builds A Lantern For The Outliers

25 galleries. Limited editions. Antiques. A new section at the world’s biggest design fair — engineered to shut up and let the pieces talk.

Salone del Mobile doesn’t add new sections often. This year, it did.

Salone Raritas lands in April 2026 as a curated space for limited editions, high-end craft, and rare antique pieces — 25 galleries, hand-picked, staged together for the first time under Formafantasma’s scenography. The Italian studio — already the sharpest editorial eye in European design — has built something closer to a lantern than a booth: quiet lighting, measured pace, a room that knows when to step out of the way.

Curation as architecture > curation as signage.

No booths fighting for attention. No overproduced flourishes. Formafantasma’s design treats the 25 galleries as one continuous conversation — editions from today sitting next to pieces with 50+ years of dust. The point: collectible design and serious antiques belong in the same sentence.

A fair within the fair > just another hall.

Raritas is Salone’s answer to a market that’s gotten quieter, slower, and more serious about objects that last. It’s also a direct play for the collector audience — the buyers who don’t need a press release to know what they’re looking at.

Milan moves fast. Raritas isn’t asking you to slow down — it’s betting you already have.