Galerie Philia presents How High the Moon at Salone del Mobile.Milano 2026

At this year’s Salone del Mobile.Milano, Galerie Philia showcases How High The Moon, a group exhibition curated by Ygaël Attali. On view from April 21 – 26, 2026, as part of Salone Raritas (Booth 024), Salone’s debut project dedicated to collectible design, the design exhibition is “conceived as a meditation on material, reflection and immaterial presence. Bringing together a selection of works articulated around aluminium, stainless steel and silver tones, the exhibition unfolds as a monochromatic landscape in which matter appears both dense and elusive,” Galerie Philia notes in an official release.

The exhibition takes its title, How High The Moon, from a work by Shiro Kuramata, whose ethereal wire-mesh chair serves as both a conceptual anchor and a vanishing point. Suspended between presence and disappearance, Kuramata’s piece encapsulates the central paradox of the show: “How can an object—inherently bound to gravity, weight and function—evoke something as distant, intangible and unreachable as the moon,” the contemporary design gallery notes.

Across the showcase at the annual design fair in Milan, Italy, reflective metal surfaces act as dynamic membranes, reflecting and refracting their surroundings. It brings together a dialogue between historical pieces and contemporary designers and artists. The geometric precision of Pietro Franceschini’s aluminium structures is set alongside Kuramata’s ‘radical lightness’, while the chromed steel and plexiglass constructions of André-Jean Doucin expand the material vocabulary. Works by Kym Ellery introduce a tactile interplay of steel and glass, complemented by Boldizar Senteski’s perceptual investigations into mirrored surfaces. Subtle aluminium interventions by Henry Wilson further refine the exhibition’s material language, while Giotto Pagani contributes a sculptural chair that balances structure and void.

“Within the scenographic context of Salone Raritas—conceived as a porous architectural landscape designed to enhance the narratives it contains—the exhibition operates as a suspended field, where objects seem to detach from their functional origins and enter a more ambiguous, almost atmospheric condition,” Galerie Philia notes in an official release. Ultimately, How High the Moon invites a reconsideration of design not as a static form, but as resonance: a capacity to reflect, absorb and extend space itself.