Milan Design Week 2026 was rich with furniture, lighting and material releases that looked beyond novelty, focusing instead on comfort, longevity, adaptability and atmosphere. Across indoor and outdoor settings, many of the strongest launches explored how objects can shape the way people gather and move through space.

From Talenti’s boundaryless indoor-outdoor vision to B&B Italia’s return to Salone del Mobile and PolyOnyx’s transformed recycled plastic, these releases showed design operating across scales: as furniture, system, surface, light and material story.

Talenti

Talenti used Milan Design Week 2026 to mark a significant evolution in the brand’s identity. Founded as an outdoor furniture company, Talenti is now expanding into interiors through Talenti Home, positioning indoor and outdoor not as separate categories but as parts of a continuous living environment.

At its Via Manzoni flagship store, the brand presented a restyled space designed to dissolve boundaries between exterior and interior. The new showroom brought together greenery, boiserie, drapery, texture and scenographic depth, reflecting Talenti’s shift towards a total living system.

Product-wise, the expansion of Carlo Colombo’s Itaca collection introduced new lounge tables designed for a more relaxed mode of outdoor living. Sitting between coffee and dining tables, the pieces support informal gathering while retaining the collection’s refined material language. Accoya structures and marble tops bring together durability and elegance.

The Nalu collection by Ludovica Serafini and Roberto Palomba appeared in new colours, continuing its wave-like language of soft curves and lifted forms. The designers’ Rayle In & Out collection made a stronger statement about the brand’s new direction. Inspired by Thai rock formations that seem to float above water, Rayle is designed for both indoor and outdoor use, with the same formal idea expressed through different material treatments. Outdoors, matte lacquered aluminium and thermoformed back-painted glass provide performance and resistance; indoors, tailored upholstery details bring a more intimate sensibility.

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Also presented was Elton In & Out, another Palomba Serafini design focused on adaptive comfort, with modular elements and varied backrest and armrest inclinations. Studio Peia contributed the Anni armchair and Kali coffee table, while Studio Adolini’s Aura and Lukas Gstoettner’s Bikono explored lighting as a portable and atmospheric element of contemporary living.

Available through Fanuli Furniture.

Molteni&C and UniFor

Molteni&C expanded its outdoor world with a 2026 collection curated by Van Duysen. Soleva, his new outdoor family, includes sofas, armchairs, chairs, stools, sunbeds and tables. Named in relation to the sun, the collection balances slender powder-coated tubular aluminium frames with marine plywood slats, outdoor cushions and quiet proportions. It is joined by Chelsea Outdoor by Dordoni Studio, which reinterprets the indoor Chelsea family for exterior use through aluminium structures and handwoven polypropylene rope, and Club by Yabu Pushelberg, a folding chair designed around mobility, lightness and outdoor ease.

Lighting also played an important role, with Molteni&C partnering with Vibia on outdoor pieces including Meridiano and Out. Meridiano combines seating and illumination in a sculptural freestanding form, while Out offers portable, softly diffused light for terraces, gardens and open-air settings.

Indoors, Van Duysen introduced Julian, a modular sofa system defined by deep seating, contrasting piping and flexible configurations, alongside Eter, a sculptural coffee table with curved surfaces and a suspended bridge-like structure.

For UniFor, Herzog & de Meuron designed MTM – Made to Measure, a furniture system based on a single constructive matrix. Solid angled frames stabilise slender horizontal elements, allowing the system to extend across tables, benches, sofas, coffee tables and even a ping pong table. With solid wood structures, travertine and coloured glass tops, and cork upholstery, MTM is designed to adapt across public, institutional and professional settings while maintaining a coherent architectural language.

These are available through Molteni&C and UniFor.

Poliform

Poliform’s 2026 releases continued the brand’s exploration of comfort, proportion and quiet formal strength. Jean-Marie Massaud’s Alfred armchair is conceived as a single soft volume upholstered in leather or fabric. While informal and contemporary, it retains the familiar presence of a classic lounge chair, with a removable cover and options for a fixed or swivel base.

Massaud also designed the Savoy sofa, a modular system that brings together geometric purity and softness. Its visible structure supports generous cushions, creating what Poliform describes as an architecture of comfort. Available in broad configurations for substantial living spaces, Savoy balances protection and relaxation, with removable upholstery and refined back finishes in black elm or glossy lacquer.

For outdoor dining, Emmanuel Gallina’s Curve table brings Poliform’s dining language into the open air. Crafted in solid teak, with a slatted or ceramic top, the table is distinguished by a rope-wrapped crosspiece that references the world of sailing. The result is a piece that feels robust, tactile and composed, with enough refinement to bridge terrace, garden and architectural outdoor rooms.

Available in Australia through Poliform Australia and in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur through Space.

Pedrali

Pedrali marked the tenth anniversary of Dome, the Odo Fioravanti-designed seating collection first presented at Salone del Mobile Milano in 2016. Over the past decade, Dome has become one of the brand’s most recognisable icons, bringing together the tradition of the bistro chair with references to domes, cathedrals and cupolas.

The collection is made from glass fibre reinforced polypropylene and is available in versions with or without armrests, and with solid or perforated seat and backrest. Its intelligence lies in how a mono-material product appears to speak several material languages at once. Some details recall the joints of wooden chairs, while the perforated versions suggest the lightness and industrial character of metal.

Dome’s success also comes from its range of use. Suitable for indoor and outdoor settings, it has appeared across schools, workplaces, public buildings, restaurants, hotels and cultural spaces. Ten years on, the collection remains a strong example of how a simple chair can gain longevity through clarity, adaptability and material precision.

Available through Innerspace.

Nikari

Finnish brand Nikari presented new releases that continued its long-standing focus on solid wood, craft and environmental sensitivity. Akademia Lounge, designed by Kaksikko, extends the Akademia series into a more relaxed typology. Made in solid oak with upholstery, the chair translates the language of the original Akademia dining chair into a generous lounge form, with oversized proportions and bent back legs giving it a calmer, more informal presence.

The Akademia series draws on Shaker simplicity, Japanese design traditions and Finnish craftsmanship, and the lounge version carries those references without excess. It is a chair built around material honesty, proportion and long sitting.

Joanna Laajisto’s Centenniale Round expands the Centenniale family with a new circular coffee table. Made from solid oak, the piece allows knots, cracks, wormholes and unevenness to remain visible, treating these qualities not as imperfections but as the essence of the material. The name refers both to the age of the wood and to the idea of furniture made to last for centuries.

Nikari also introduced BIENNALE Shimber, a limited-edition version of its Biennale stool-table using Shimber, a 100 per cent bio-based structural colour coating. Developed without traditional pigments, the coating creates a shifting optical effect inspired by natural phenomena such as butterfly wings. Applied to two sides of the oak or black-stained stool-table, it brings a more experimental material note to Nikari’s otherwise quiet wood-based language.

Together, the releases suggest a Milan Design Week mood less interested in novelty for its own sake than in products that can hold time: through use, adaptability, material depth and the everyday rituals of living.

Available through K5 Furniture.

Moooi x Superstudio

Moooi marked its twenty-fifth anniversary at Milan Design Week with Moooi 25 and Promising, an immersive celebration staged with Superstudio, the site of the brand’s first Milan presentation 25 years ago. Wrapped in silver, the exhibition treated the anniversary as a moment of reinvention, bringing together new releases, reimagined icons and experimental gestures.

Among the new introductions was Urchina Light by Studio Roderick Vos, a floating constellation of carbon rods inspired by the symmetry of sea urchins. Paul Cocksedge’s Push Light turned a simple physical gesture into illumination, while Moooi Wallcovering introduced Monumental Moments and Moooi Carpets presented Future Fossils by Kilian Vos. Existing pieces also returned in new forms, including Meshmatics in additional sizes and formats, Paper Chandelier in three sizes and Common Comrades in smoked bamboo.

The presentation also looked ahead. Powerline, Moooi’s first architectural lighting collection developed with Intra Lighting, signalled an expansion from expressive objects into more complete lighting systems. Pino Tree by Andrés Reisinger added a surreal, kinetic note, with illuminated rotating trees forming a forest-like installation. Together, the releases reflected Moooi’s ongoing interest in interiors as emotional landscapes, where objects are allowed to be strange, theatrical and deeply memorable.

Available in Australia through Space Furniture and in Singapore through Space Furniture Asia Hub.

Rimadesio

Rimadesio used Milan Design Week 2026 to celebrate its 70th anniversary with BECOMING, a multidisciplinary project staged across design, architecture and art. Conceived as four acts, the project framed the brand’s history not as an evolving language shaped by innovation, restraint and a continuous dialogue with contemporary living.

At the centre of the new collection was Giuseppe Bavuso, whose long collaboration with Rimadesio has helped define the brand’s precise and measured design identity. For 2026, the collection expanded through new materials, finishes, systems and furniture elements, presented in the brand’s Milan showroom on Via Visconti di Modrone. The emphasis remained on modularity, spatial clarity and technical refinement, with solutions spanning living systems, bookcases, sliding panels, hinged doors, wardrobes and accessories.

Rimadesio’s strength lies in its ability to make space itself feel designed. Rather than treating furniture as isolated pieces, the brand works through systems that organise, divide and connect interiors. In the context of Milan Design Week, BECOMING positioned the company’s 70-year history as an ongoing process: one where memory, technology and architectural thinking continue to shape each other.

B&B Italia

B&B Italia returned to Salone del Mobile in 2026 with considerable symbolic weight, marking its first major presence at the fair in 25 years. The presentation brought together new products, expanded collections and archival reissues, with contributions from Ronan Bouroullec, Jasper Morrison, Antonio Citterio, Vincent Van Duysen and Michael Anastassiades, alongside the return of Richard Sapper’s Nena armchair and limited-edition Catilina chairs by Luigi Caccia Dominioni.

The stand, designed by Formafantasma, avoided the familiar language of styled domestic rooms. Instead, it placed the products within a restrained architectural framework, using proportion, light, wood, marble and coconut fibre carpets to create atmosphere without overdetermining context. This allowed each piece to be read as an autonomous design project, foregrounding material, form and design logic.

Vincent Van Duysen’s new outdoor seating system was among the key launches, exploring the relationship between structure and comfort through a visible solid wood frame and soft, generous cushions. As a whole, the presentation balanced heritage and renewal, showing B&B Italia’s ability to revisit its archive while continuing to expand the language of contemporary living.

Available through B&B Italia Sydney / Space Furniture.

Cosentino x Tom Dixon

Cosentino and Tom Dixon presented AXIS at Fuorisalone 2026, an immersive installation inside Casa Manzoni that explored the relationship between material innovation, structure and spatial experience. Conceived as a progressive journey through five environments, AXIS moved from sculptural table landscapes to architectural applications and atmospheric rooms shaped by light, reflection and sound.

The installation served as the setting for the AXIS table collection, developed in collaboration with ACTIU, while also introducing ĒCLOS, Cosentino’s new mineral surface made with INLAYR technology. With a fully integrated 3D body design, zero crystalline silica and a high recycled content, ĒCLOS positioned surface design as both technical and sensory. The installation also showcased the Dekton Artik Nodes collection.

Tom Dixon’s involvement brought a theatrical and experimental edge to the presentation. Known for his fascination with materials, industrial processes and sculptural form, Dixon approached Cosentino’s surfaces not as passive finishes, but as active elements capable of shaping perception. In AXIS, surface became structure, table, architecture and atmosphere at once.

Available through Cosentino Australia.

Poltrona Frau

Poltrona Frau’s 2026 collection, True Over Time, centred on the idea of design that preserves meaning across generations. Rather than chasing novelty, the collection looked at longevity, identity and the emotional value of objects intended to be lived with, passed down and reinterpreted without losing their character.

Key launches included the Archibald Sofa System by Jean-Marie Massaud, which evolves one of the brand’s most recognisable armchairs into a modular sofa designed for comfort and changing lifestyles. Ludovica Serafini and Roberto Palomba’s Blisscape sofa was expanded with new seating depths and elements, while Faye Toogood brought her LieLow language into the bedroom for the first time through a new bed and nightstands.

Other additions extended the collection across living, dining and storage. Sebastian Herkner’s Stock N’ Roll gained a refined vanity desk, Dante Bonuccelli’s DomusCove brought the DressCove wardrobe system into the living area, and Roberto Lazzeroni presented the Infinitamente 2.0 table with sculptural Pelle Frau legs, alongside the Abigail table and Zabriskie storage units. With new collaborations and special editions, including the Albero GFF 100 bookcase and Archibald Delicate Balance Limited Edition with Shepard Fairey, Poltrona Frau framed endurance not as stillness, but as continuous renewal.

Available through Mobilia.

PolyOnyx

Edward Linacre and Maxwell Carr presented the latest development of PolyOnyx at Isola Design Festival, as part of Milan Design Week 2026’s No Space For Waste exhibition. Launched in 2020, the collaborative project seeks to shift the perception of recycled plastic, transforming material commonly dismissed as waste into objects of permanent beauty.

For Hand Forged Remnants, PolyOnyx revealed a series of illuminated wall sconces. Through a process the designers describe as hand marbling, recycled plastics are heated, fused, pressed and physically manipulated to create veining, fissures, colour gradients and internal structures. The result evokes onyx, alabaster, travertine and marble, while remaining materially distinct from all of them.

When illuminated, the sconces reveal the depth and translucency of the material, allowing light to move through veins and cavities with an unexpected softness. What initially appears geological is gradually revealed as something else entirely: a surface made from remnants, reworked through craft into a new material language.

Rather than disguising the origins of plastic waste, PolyOnyx reframes them. The project asks whether value can be rebuilt through process, care and perception, suggesting that circular design need not be defined only by responsibility, but also by wonder and desirability.

Available through Edward Linacre Studio.

Flexform

Flexform’s 2026 presentation, The Private Lives of Objects, explored furniture not simply as a set of functional pieces, but as quiet companions to domestic life. Presented across the brand’s Milan flagship on Via della Moscova and the Chiostro Sant’Angelo, the indoor and outdoor collections considered how objects hold memory, ritual and identity over time.

The indoor collection focused on generous dimensions, measured proportions and carefully studied depths, with comfort treated as something precise rather than casual. Sofas, tables, seating, storage and surfaces were designed to support the everyday gestures of home: pausing, gathering, returning, organising and living with ease. Warm wood, tactile surfaces and sophisticated coverings created a sense of continuity, while tailored stitching and upholstery details pointed to Flexform’s ongoing emphasis on sartorial craftsmanship.

The presentation also marked an expanded creative dialogue for the brand. Alongside Antonio Citterio, whose more than 50-year collaboration with Flexform has helped shape its identity, the 2026 collection included work by Patrick Norguet, Fumie Shibata, Sebastian Herkner and Monica Armani. Together, the releases suggested a quieter Milan Design Week mood: one in which furniture is not asked to perform novelty, but to endure, adapt and become part of the private rhythms of daily life.

Available through Flexform.

Tacchini

Tacchini’s 2026 presentation unfolded across both Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone, with the brand exploring materiality, softness and domestic life through a richly layered program. At Salone, its stand was conceived by Studio Cameranesi-Pompili and Studio LYS as a light, permeable textile architecture — a suspended, tent-like environment where fabric, filtering surfaces and open spatial sequences allowed the furniture to emerge within a fluid domestic landscape.

Faye Toogood’s Butter Collection formed one of the central narratives. Originally conceived from the soft, sculptural qualities of a slab of Cornish butter, the collection expanded in 2026 into a broader system with new modules, end units, an armchair, three-seater sofa, poufs and a storage cabinet. Generous, tactile and deliberately informal, Butter positioned comfort as something empathetic and bodily, designed around the relaxed gestures of contemporary living.

At Casa Tacchini, Toogood also presented Material Anthology, a site-specific intervention built around the brand’s raw materials, offcuts, samples and archives. The installation framed material not as a finish applied at the end of the design process, but as the beginning of meaning, atmosphere and emotional connection. Elsewhere in the collection, Tacchini continued its dialogue with design masters through new editions and updates by Mario Bellini, Tobia Scarpa, Umberto Riva, Michael Anastassiades and Gianfranco Frattini, while new pieces by Roberto Sironi and Studiopepe extended the brand’s material and chromatic vocabulary.

Available through Stylecraft.

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