IKEA debuts PS 2026
- IKEA opened 'Food For Thought' at Milan Design Week and previewed three world‑premiere products from the IKEA PS 2026 collection. (ingka.com) - The show runs April 21–26 at Spazio Maiocchi and includes the first public viewings of those PS pieces. (ingka.com) - Milan Design Week remains active despite inflation and geopolitical uncertainty, with brands staging cross‑category launches across the city. (wwd.com)
IKEA opened its “Food For Thought” exhibition in Milan on Monday and used the show to debut the first three pieces from its IKEA PS 2026 collection. (ikea.com) The event runs April 21 through April 26 at Spazio Maiocchi in Milan’s Porta Venezia district, with free entry, daily opening hours of 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and a shorter 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. schedule on Sunday. (ikea.com) IKEA said the first public preview includes three products from the forthcoming tenth IKEA PS line: a rocking bench, an inflatable chair and a bendable lamp. The company said the full collection is due in May 2026. (ikea.com) The PS line has a specific place inside IKEA’s catalog. IKEA said it launched the first IKEA PS collection in 1995 alongside its “Democratic Design” idea, positioning the series as a space for more experimental, lower-price design. (ikea.com) This year’s Milan presentation ties those products to food and home rituals instead of showing them in a standard showroom. Ingka said “Food For Thought” mixes room sets, a working kitchen, live cooking and tasting demos, a food market, and evening aperitivo programming. (ingka.com) IKEA also shifted neighborhoods for the 2026 edition. After four years in Tortona, the company moved its Milan Design Week base to Porta Venezia for this installation at Via Achille Maiocchi 7. (ingka.com) The wider fair opened under less comfortable business conditions than the crowds might suggest. WWD reported that the 64th Salone del Mobile.Milano is unfolding amid inflation, higher oil prices, tariffs and conflict in the Middle East, even as hotel demand and event activity remain strong. (wwd.com) Milan Design Week still stretches far beyond the trade fair itself. The City of Milan said the 2026 program runs April 20 to April 26 across the city, giving brands room to stage exhibitions that mix furniture with fashion, beauty, food and hospitality. (comune.milano.it) For IKEA, that means using Milan less as a sales floor than as a stage for what comes next. Visitors this week get the first look at PS 2026 in public; shoppers get the rest of the collection when it reaches market in May. (ikea.com)
