Inside Palazzo Acerbi, the H&M HOME collection by Kelly Wearstler takes shape as an immersive installation during Milan Design Week 2026, on view from 21st 26th April. The presentation marks a dual debut for both designer and brand, introducing H&M HOME’s first dedicated furniture universe alongside a curated series of design objects.
Within the palace’s historic rooms, Studio Boum orchestrates a sequence of atmospheres where light, material and proportion guide perception as much as the furniture itself. The domestic sphere is treated as something elastic and responsive, shaped by use, rhythm and ritual.
Modular futures: the concept behind the H&M HOME collection
The collection is built on a modular design system: tables, chairs, lighting and accessories function as interchangeable elements, able to extend, combine and shift according to context. Objects move between utility, sculpture and ambience, suggesting a more fluid understanding of contemporary living.
In the courtyard, NOXEN stools form a rhythmic architectural composition against soft ochre drapery, setting the installation’s vocabulary of repetition and stacking. Inside the entrance hall, the EMERA lamp is enlarged to floor scale, reappearing throughout the space as a steady luminous motif.
The dining room stages a dialogue between reflection and mass, with NOXEN chairs placed on mirrored plinths beneath the palace’s historic surfaces. In the music room, caban-like structures frame AUREX lamps, while projections and sound introduce a shifting sensory field.
Across the lounge, floral, dressing and reading rooms, the installation moves through different domestic registers: sculptural seating clusters in the lounge, layered botanical surfaces around the CURVA vase, a high-gloss modular wardrobe system in the dressing room, and a quieter reading space defined by AVERN armchairs and the ORTRA table.
The installation frames the H&M HOME collection by Kelly Wearstler as more than objects, but as a living expression of contemporary domesticity. At Palazzo Acerbi, furniture shifts between function and sculpture, while everyday rituals become composed gestures within space. At Milan Design Week, it reconsiders how we inhabit, adapt to, and emotionally connect with design.
Courtesy of H&M HOME
Photography by PIERGIORGIO SORGETTI
