Milan today

The Milan furniture fair is the design world's most important meeting, and Italian manufacturers work with designers from all over the world.

Italian companies such as Kartell, Cassina, Flos and Alessi commission international designers. Philippe Starck's Louis Ghost for Kartell of 2002, in transparent polycarbonate, became one of the best-selling chairs of its time.

Patricia Urquiola, born in Spain and working in Milan, has become one of the leading designers. The Fiat 500 of 2007 revived a classic.