Ikea’s PS 2026 reveal
- Ikea previewed its new “PS 2026” collection at Milan Design Week with playful furniture pieces on display. - The limited preview highlighted PS 2026 as a playful, experimental collection shown during the Salone events. - The reveal positions Ikea within Milan’s design conversation about affordable, creative furniture (wallpaper.com).
Ikea used Milan Design Week to unveil the first pieces from its IKEA PS 2026 line, a new edition of its long-running experimental furniture series. (ikea.com) The preview opened at Spazio Maiocchi in Milan on April 21 and runs through April 26 as part of Ikea’s “Food For Thought” exhibition during the Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone week. Ikea said visitors can see three PS 2026 products there. (ikea.com) Those three pieces are an inflatable easy chair by Mikael Axelsson, a rocking bench by Marta Krupińska, and a three-directional floor lamp by Lex Pott. Ikea’s newsroom called the showing a first look at the collection’s tenth edition. (ikea.com) The PS line has a specific role inside Ikea: it is where the company tests more expressive products while keeping to its “Democratic Design” formula of function, form and low price. Ikea says the first PS collection launched in 1995, making PS 2026 the series’ 10th collection. (ikea.com) That history helps explain why Ikea brought the reveal back to Milan. Ikea said the original PS debut also took place in Milan in 1995, and this year’s preview returns the brand to the city’s biggest design week with a collection built around “playful functionality.” (ikea.com) The exhibition around it is broader than a product launch. Ikea’s “Food For Thought” installation pairs five interior designers with five chefs to stage rooms about cooking, eating and gathering, with the PS 2026 pieces used as part of that conversation. (fuorisalone.it) Wallpaper reported that the PS 2026 preview was presented as the world premiere of three products from the wider collection, alongside two new floor lamps by Milan-based designer Raffaella Mangiarotti. The magazine framed the showing as Ikea’s contribution to Milan’s annual debate over how design reaches a mass audience. (wallpaper.com) Ikea has already put a date on the next step. Country retail pages for the launch say the wider IKEA PS 2026 collection is scheduled to go on sale on May 14, 2026. (ikea.com) For now, the Milan reveal is a teaser: three objects, one week, and a return to the design fair where Ikea first used PS to argue that experimental furniture could still be sold at Ikea scale. (ikea.com)
