Throughout Milan Design Week 2026, I visited the H&M HOME set up at Palazzo Acerbi, the place the primary items from the collaboration with Kelly Wearstler have been proven. A collection of furnishings and objects was offered all through the palazzo. It marks the primary time H&M HOME launched furnishings as a part of a designer collaboration, alongside a sequence of design objects.
“This collaboration with Kelly Wearstler is about exploring how design can form the best way we dwell, by way of items which might be each expressive and adaptable,” says Evelina Kravaev-Söderberg. “Via the set up at Milan Design Week, we’re increasing our design universe and providing new methods to expertise H&M HOME.”
Bringing H&M Dwelling
Kelly herself titled her publication, by which she writes in regards to the collaboration ‘Bringing H&M Dwelling”, and I believe that’s precisely what makes this assortment so particular. The concept of having the ability to convey a chunk of Kelly Wearstler Design into your private home is an extended cherished dream for a lot of. And thru this collaboration with H&M HOME, this now appears potential for a lot of design aficionados!
“That is my Milan debut and alongside H&M HOME” Kelly says. “I couldn’t have requested for a greater associate or a extra extraordinary stage. Palazzo Acerbi stopped me the second I walked in. Centuries of historical past, our assortment in direct dialog with all of it. Bringing this assortment to life in Milan and displaying individuals how these items come alive in an actual house, that’s every part” And I couldn’t agree extra. Having the ability to go to these lovely Palazzi every year, not understanding who or what to find inside their partitions, is one thing that retains me coming again to the Salone -Milan Design week.
First days in Milan
After spending the Sunday at Alcova, learn my first report right here: Alcova 2026 favorite Sten Studio – The marriage and earlier than Milan Design week formally opened, our Monday was crammed with totally different press occasions and openings. So for The Kelly Wearstler x H&M HOME presentation and I have to say that I used to be actually very curious in regards to the assortment, particularly as I knew that these can be new and authentic designs throughout the H&M HOME assortment by a designer I actually respect.
The presentation featured 9 curated objects from the gathering; the total 29-piece assortment launches 3 September 2026! Each facet was rigorously curated making it a complete expertise. All the set up was immersed in a {custom} scent created by Kelly Wearstler for SIDE HUSTLE in LA particularly for the Kelly Wearstler H&M HOME set up.`
Noxen Stools Picture Credit score: H&M HOME, Piergiorgio Sorgetti
After a brief line we arrived on the courtyard of Palazzo Acerbi, the place the primary gesture of the set up revealed itself. The NOXEN stools have been composed right into a sculptural set up, someplace between furnishings and structure, set in opposition to a backdrop of okra-toned curtains that softened and framed the house.
The doorway room was the primary house of the set up. Right here the EMERA desk lamp was proven right here in a bigger, floor-scale model and repeated all through the room.
Within the ‘eating room’, the NOXEN chairs are dispersed throughout the house, every elevated on silver mirrored plinths. Set in opposition to the uncooked, historic partitions of Palazzo Acerbi, the items have been offered in distinction to the present structure.
Displaying the flexibility of the NOXEN Chair
The music room launched a quieter setting second. Two constructed shutter field cabanas body the house, every housing the silhouette-defined AUREX lamp, showing nearly like objects on a stage or inside a vitrine. Sound was a part of the room, along with gentle projections transferring by way of the shutters and altering the backdrop. To expertise this for your self, go to my Milan Design Week Spotlight the place a video of this set up is without doubt one of the first proven.
The lounge was organized with the SOLUNA lounge chair and POMA accent chair, positioned collectively and stacked in opposition to a striped wallpaper. This vertical composition confirmed a way of quantity and softness, pushing the concept of upholstery into one thing extra sculptural and surprising, blurring the road between operate and set up. I liked how throughout the Dinatoire organised by H&M and Kelly guests would collect on this room, displaying some extra of that on the finish of this publish.
On the centre of this room sits one of many assortment’s key items: the softly contoured CURVA vase, which I beforehand confirmed when first writing in regards to the collaboration : Kelly Wearstler x H&M HOME at Milan Design Week 2026 Surrounded by expressive, illustrative classic floral wallpaper, bronze mirrors and a totally custom-made rug improve the ambiance and add heat, reflection, and a way of enveloping tangibility. Delicate flowers fashioned a dialogue with the vases and the wallpaper.
MONA Clothes Rack – Picture Credit score: H&M HOME, Piergiorgio Sorgetti
I got here throughout quite a lot of Excessive gloss parts throughout the totally different exhibitions and interiors throughout the week and the MONA clothes rack, a modular system rendered in high-gloss purple is spot on. A customized floral wallpaper in gentle pink and inexperienced softens its construction, whereas a luxurious, totally fitted carpet evokes the intimacy of a walk-in closet. Printed garment baggage are subtly built-in into the house, hinting at narrative past the set up.
ORTRA couch desk – images ViStyle studio
Cocktail dînatoire to have fun Kelly Wearstler H&M HOME
Later that week I used to be invited to a Cocktail dînatoire to have fun Kelly Wearstler H&M HOME at Milan Design Week. A night with an incredible vibe, plenty of acquainted faces, together with Kelly and the H&M crew, and drinks and bites all in model of the gathering. Right here on the pressroom I liked the ORTRA couch desk composed of a number of parts forming a round configuration, I can simply see this in my own residence and hope to put my arms on as soon as the gathering is launched. On prime the candlesticks I later present in my bag, that are additionally a part of the gathering
The picture beneath I discovered on Kelly’s web site and enjoyable to abruptly spot myself in it after scrolling previous the images a number of occasions. Thanks for an incredible night time H&M and Kelly, and Miluska for taking that different picture of Kelly and me.
Picture by way of Kelly Wearstler
The Kelly Wearstler H&M HOME assortment will probably be obtainable from 3 September 2026 in choose shops and on-line at H&M HOME.
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