The iSaloni 2026 exhibition spotlights brands and professionals recognized in the first edition, while reinforcing the invitation: entries for the 2nd Award are open through June 3
Having a piece exhibited at Salone del Mobile.Milano can still feel like a distant goal for many. In 2026, however, that goal becomes a reality with the exhibition of the winning projects and special recognitions from the 1st Brazilian Furniture Design Award, on display in Pavilion 03 at iSaloni. More than simply taking part in the industry’s leading global showcase, the initiative demonstrates that this path can be real for manufacturers, designers, architects, studios, workshops, students, and emerging talents from different regions and of different sizes across Brazil.
The flagship event of Milan Design Week in Italy, iSaloni reaches its 64th edition from April 21 to 26, 2026. Brazil returns to the event through actions led by the Brazilian Furniture Sector Project, an initiative of ABIMÓVEL (Brazilian Furniture Industry Association) in partnership with ApexBrasil (Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency), which this year brings together a delegation of around 70 brands, designers, and creatives.
Under the theme “Connections,” Brazil’s presence is organized around three complementary fronts, helping convey how the country has been positioning itself in both domestic and international markets: through the manufacturing strength of its brands; the connection between industry and design; and the recognition of talents, repertoires, and ideas that have been renewing the sector.
“1st Brazilian Furniture Design Award” Exhibition
One of these fronts is the Exhibition of the Winning Pieces from the 1st Brazilian Furniture Design Award. Launched in 2024, the award is organized by ABIMÓVEL, with ApexBrasil and Sebrae (Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service) as co-organizers, bringing together projects that combine creativity, harmony, production and economic feasibility, identity, sustainability, and innovation.
Beyond awarding pieces and highlighting the work of Brazilian brands and professionals, the initiative recognizes ways of thinking and making that reaffirm the role of design in industry—not only as an aesthetic expression, but as intelligence applied to materials, use, construction systems, and the very meaning of living in a changing world.
With this in mind, the Brazilian Furniture Design Award was created to give visibility to the plurality of Brazilian production, encompassing everyone from large companies to studios and students across categories that reflect different scales and ways of operating in the sector.
Featured pieces
Vela
Mobiliário de Fabricação Seriada
Guamá
Mobiliário de Fabricação Seriada
Vínculo
Design de Bioeconomia
Arvoredo
Design de Bioeconomia
Chopin
Design de Bioeconomia
Trilha Piquenique
Design de Bioeconomia
Monolito
Inovação no Design de Mobiliário
Memo
Inovação em Design de Mobiliário
Kerecha
Mobiliário de Design Emergencial
Tit
Mobiliário Planejado
Pito
Potencial Criativo em Design de Móveis
Taípe
Potencial Criativo em Design de Móveis
Dinda
Potencial Criativo em Design de Móveis
Cesto
Excelência Fabril
Zé
Selected
Régia
Selected
Fulão
Selected
Aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the ESG agenda, the selected pieces—chosen from more than 500 entries—highlight production capacity, material diversity, technical inventiveness, and socio-environmental responsibility in projects that respond to the needs of contemporary living while also pointing to new paths for the future.
Presented in October 2025, during the 12th National Furniture Congress in Brazil, the standout projects from the first edition now gain international visibility at Salone del Mobile.Milano 2026, taking to Italy an expressive cross-section of what currently distinguishes Brazilian design. The exhibition is part of an event featuring more than 1,900 exhibitors and 169,000 square meters of exhibition space, welcoming visitors from every continent.
Entries for the 2nd edition are open through June 3
If the presence in Milan gives visibility to the highlights of the first edition, it also helps shine a light on what is taking shape now, with new creations and solutions under development. Entries for the 2nd Brazilian Furniture Design Award are open through June 3, 2026, and the winners will have their pieces exhibited at Salone del Mobile.Milano 2027.
The new edition expands this movement with the inclusion and refinement of its categories, engaging even more directly with the diversity, complexity, and current stage of Brazilian production. They are:
Serial Production Furniture
Focused on products designed for industrial-scale manufacturing, where design, engineering, cost, and repeatability must work together with quality and consistency.
Artisanal Furniture
For original pieces, handcrafted processes, and solutions that preserve and update techniques while valuing material culture, finish, and detail.
Bioeconomy Design
Focused on creations that incorporate renewable materials, reuse, local supply chains, circularity, and ESG criteria applied to the product.
Manufacturing Excellence
Recognizing companies and projects that demonstrate process mastery, construction precision, finishing standards, reliability, and manufacturing maturity.
Innovation in Furniture Design
For proposals that advance materials, technologies, processes, construction systems, or user experience, with clarity of application.
Corporate Furniture
A new category in this edition, aimed at solutions for institutional and collective environments—workplaces, education, hospitality, and services—with a focus on performance, ergonomics, and durability.
Creative Potential in Furniture Design
Created especially for students and young professionals, recognizing concept, originality, and the quality of the proposal, with well-argued technical feasibility.
By updating its structure, the award reinforces its commitment to an increasingly broad and precise reading of the sector, encompassing different profiles, production scales, and design languages. At the same time, it reaffirms design as a strategic driver of differentiation, competitiveness, and value creation.
For manufacturers, professionals, and students across all regions of the country, the Brazilian Furniture Design Award aims not only to identify and recognize strong projects, but also to place them on the global radar—bringing their creations, names, and brands to the world.
The regulations and the link to the entry form are available on the award’s official landing page.
mkt.abimovel.com/premiodesignAbout ABIMÓVEL
The Brazilian Furniture Industry Association (ABIMÓVEL) has dedicated nearly five decades to supporting, advancing, and strengthening Brazil’s furniture production chain. The association leads a strategic agenda for the sector, benefiting more than 22,800 companies that, in 2025, generated R$ 92.1 billion in revenue and 287,200 direct jobs across a production chain that indirectly employs around 1.1 million people.
Throughout its trajectory, ABIMÓVEL has led a broad range of programs and initiatives focused on business development, competitiveness, design, sustainability, technical standardization, innovation, and the internationalization of the industry, advancing efforts that reinforce the position of Brazilian furniture in both the domestic and global markets.
Today, Brazil is the largest furniture producer in Latin America and the seventh largest in the world — a position that reflects the strategic relevance of a diverse, far-reaching production chain that remains closely attuned to market transformations.
abimovel.comAbout ApexBrasil
The Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (ApexBrasil) works to promote Brazilian products and services abroad and attract foreign investments to strategic sectors of the Brazilian economy.
In order to achieve its goals, ApexBrasil carries out several trade promotion initiatives aimed at promoting Brazilian products and services abroad, such as prospective and trade missions, business rounds, support to the participation of Brazilian companies in major international fairs, visits of foreign buyers and opinion makers to learn about the Brazilian productive structure, among other business platforms that also aim at strengthening the Brazil brand.
The Agency also acts in a coordinated way with public and private players to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) to Brazil with a focus on strategic sectors for the development of the competitiveness of Brazilian companies and the country.
apexbrasil.com.brAbout Sebrae
The Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (Sebrae) is a private, non-profit institution that plays a key role in empowering entrepreneurs and driving business growth across Brazil. Brazil hosts one of the largest small business ecosystems in the world, with more than 24.1 million micro and small enterprises, which represent over 95% of all businesses, generate 50.9% of formal jobs, and account for 26.5% of the country’s GDP. Entrepreneurship continues to grow, with 47 million Brazilians engaged in business activities and an entrepreneurship rate of 33.4%, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2024.
Within this context, Sebrae acts as a key enabler of productivity, competitiveness and inclusion. In 2025, the institution reached more than 18.4 million clients, delivered 65.8 million service interactions, and contributed to the creation of 5.1 million new businesses. Its work spans capacity building, innovation, access to markets and financial inclusion, including initiatives to expand access to credit and strengthen business capabilities.
With over five decades of experience, Sebrae contributes to strengthening the business environment and fostering entrepreneurial culture, aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By connecting entrepreneurs to knowledge, networks and opportunities, the institution supports job creation, income generation and long-term, inclusive development.
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