Milan Design Week is always an exercise in abundance, but certain threads stood out across the 2026 product releases: bathrooms becoming more architectural, outdoor furniture moving closer to the language of interiors and materials being asked to carry deeper stories of time, use and craft.
Across bathroom, furniture, lighting and outdoor design, the strongest launches were not simply new objects, but new ways of thinking about how products support daily life. From Laufen’s subtle approach to ageing in place to Talenti’s boundaryless indoor-outdoor vision, the following brands offered some of the most considered releases of the season.
Laufen
For Laufen, Konstantin Grcic has designed PAR, a bathroom collection that translates the passage of time into form, material and use. Created for people in later life, PAR supports daily routines without overtly signalling limitation. It is designed around experienced users who value simplicity, comfort and autonomy, with solutions that are already present when needed rather than added later as afterthoughts.
The collection includes washbasins, a drawer element, storage pieces and a T-grab handle bar, with elements made in SaphirKeramik. Its strength lies in how quietly it works. PAR does not treat support as a visible concession, but as part of the bathroom’s architecture. In doing so, it reframes the bathroom as a space that can adapt over time, accompanying changing needs with clarity and dignity.
antoniolupi
At Salone del Mobile Milano 2026, antoniolupi presented a series of new projects within an exhibition architecture inspired by the Roman domus. Organised as a sequence of rooms around a central space, the stand explored the bathroom as a domestic environment shaped by architecture, material and water.
Among the standout launches was Carsico, a freestanding marble basin designed by Paolo Ulian. Hand-carved by specialist artisans, the basin makes visible the core drill holes that are usually hidden within marble sinks. These technical voids become the defining aesthetic feature of the piece, producing a sculptural composition of solids, cavities, light and shadow. Rather than concealing the process of making, Carsico preserves its traces, allowing imperfections, marks and material variations to become part of the basin’s character.
Also presented was Skyline, a marble washbasin designed by Antonio Iraci. Inspired by urban architecture, Skyline is formed from staggered planes and intersecting surfaces, creating a basin that reads almost as a small architectural landscape. Its function is partially concealed from the front, with the object revealing itself through movement. The result is a washbasin that turns an everyday gesture into a spatial encounter with stone, reflection and water.
Further releases included Nazionale, a tapware line by Michele Vitaloni; Lilium, a basin by Brian Sironi inspired by the form of a flower; Slide, a marble bathtub by Carlo Colombo; and a capsule collection of porcelain stoneware surfaces by Carlo Colombo, Gumdesign, Giorgio Rava and Mario Trimarchi.
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.
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.
Molteni&C and UniFor
Molteni&C presented a wide-ranging 2026 offering across kitchen, living and outdoor environments. Physis, the new kitchen designed by Creative Director Vincent Van Duysen, positioned the kitchen as an architectural centre of the home. Rounded edges, soft curves, transparent glass doors, open compartments and integrated lighting create a sense of openness and continuity, while the use of Hinoki veneer introduces warmth, humidity resistance and natural antibacterial properties.
The brand also 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.
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.
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.
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.