60th Anniversary of Milan’s Salone del Mobile

The 24th of September 1961 saw the inauguration of the first Milan Furniture Fair, the Salone del Mobile, which celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2022. The Salone was the brainchild of a group of 13 furniture entrepreneurs (led by Tito Armellini, director of the Associazione Industriali del Legno e Sughero Alta Italia) and encompassed two pavilions of the Fiera Campionaria: in total, there were 328 exhibitors, distributed over an exhibition area of 12,000sqm.