Knoll unveils a bold and thoughtful collection at Milan Design Week 2025
Knoll at Salone del Mobile 2025 unveils a bold, contemporary vision of design, where sculptural and unconventional forms are seamlessly integrated into creations with a distinctive aesthetic.
This year’s highlights include entirely new collections with a contemporary spirit, a refined archival reissue, and updated finishes for a timeless classic. Every piece is conceived to engage with the architecture, enriching spaces through essential volumes and expressive materials. The result is a sophisticated, rigorous, and distinctly modern design language.
Among the most emblematic new arrivals, the Biboni™ Sofa perfectly encapsulates Knoll’s philosophy: an ongoing dialogue with some of the most visionary architects and designers of our time.
Created by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of Johnston Marklee, Biboni translates their architectural research into a sculptural furniture piece. The sofa becomes an inhabitable sculpture, where soft, refined geometries play with curves, voids, and volumes in a dynamic balance that recalls the human body and its relationship with space.
With the Muecke Wood Collection, Knoll debuts a remarkable collaboration with architect and sculptor Jonathan Muecke, known for his radically experimental approach that places material at the core of design thinking. This all-wood dining system distills Muecke’s artistic vision into a collection that evokes the welcoming simplicity of the domestic table.
Essential yet rich in meaning, the collection is built on three fundamental principles: material, repetition, and logic. Every design gesture is stripped to its core, resulting in a silent yet powerful presence—an architectural expression of the everyday. It marks a new chapter in Knoll’s design research, situated between sculpture, functionality, and material truth.
Following the Perron Sillo Sofa, Willo Perron—a multifaceted creative known for his unconventional take on spaces and objects—presents the new Perron Bun™ Lounge Chair, complete with matching ottoman. This piece redefines the concept of comfort in contemporary living. Floating like a soft cloud above a sculptural base, the Perron Bun blurs the lines between armchair, sofa, and bed.
Designed to welcome the body in a fluid, natural way, it introduces a more informal, dynamic, and versatile way of relaxing. It’s a new way of experiencing comfort—Knoll-style.
Among the most significant reissues in Knoll’s 2025 collection is the return of the D’Urso Occasional Tables, originally designed in 1980 by celebrated interior designer and minimalist Joseph D’Urso. Reissued in three different sizes, the tables reflect the high-tech design language of the 1970s. Characterized by industrial materials, clean lines, and retractable wheels, they offer increased mobility without compromising formal clarity. The result is a discreet yet sophisticated object that integrates naturally into modern settings while preserving the expressive strength of the original design.
Alongside the D’Urso tables, Knoll also reimagines one of its most iconic collections: the Barcelona® Collection by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Now enhanced with new finishes and textile upholstery, the collection gains a fresh sense of expressiveness.
In collaboration with experts on Mies’ work, Knoll uncovered that there was never a strict rule requiring leather. In fact, Mies and his collaborator Lilly Reich often used alternative fabrics, tailoring each piece to suit the context and emphasizing the importance of material customization.
Staying true to this legacy, Knoll now introduces a refined selection of textiles for the Barcelona Chair, Stool, and Couch, expanding the collection’s compositional and sensory possibilities. A new ultra-matte onyx finish for the frame adds an elegant and unexpected twist, bringing a contemporary edge to one of modernism’s most iconic profiles.
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