IKEA at Milan Week
- IKEA opened 'Food For Thought' at Spazio Maiocchi during Milano Design Week, previewing its PS 2026 collection. - The pop-up runs April 21–26 and debuts three products, including an inflatable chair highlighted in coverage. - Salone del Mobile and EuroCucina return April 21–26, framing a design week focused on food, function, and experimental pieces ( ).
IKEA is using Milan Design Week to show furniture and food in the same room, opening a six-day installation in Porta Venezia as the fair begins. (ingka.com) The show, called “Food For Thought,” runs April 21-26 at Spazio Maiocchi, Via Achille Maiocchi 7, after four years of IKEA programming in Tortona. IKEA said the exhibition is built around cooking, eating and sharing, with immersive room sets and a working kitchen. (ingka.com, portaveneziadesigndistrict.com) The installation also serves as the first public preview of IKEA PS 2026, the 10th edition of the company’s more experimental PS line. IKEA said the first three pieces are an inflatable easy chair, a rocking bench and a three-directional floor lamp. (ikea.com) IKEA first launched the PS collection in 1995 in Milan, tying it to the company’s “Democratic Design” pitch of form, function, quality, sustainability and low price. The new exhibition keeps that language but shifts the setting to a market-style food hall, or saluhall, instead of a standard product display. (ikea.com, ingka.com) The timing places IKEA inside a Milan week centered on the kitchen and the rituals around it. EuroCucina, the biennial kitchen exhibition within Salone del Mobile, returns April 21-26 and the organizer says this year’s themes include changing habits, outdoor living, sustainability and artificial intelligence. (salonemilano.it) Salone del Mobile itself opens its 64th edition on the same dates at Fiera Milano Rho, with more than 1,900 exhibitors, according to the city’s event guide. The 2026 fair also brings back the bathroom biennial and adds Salone Raritas, broadening the week beyond furniture launches alone. (yesmilano.it) The New York Times previewed this year’s Milan week as one where brands are leaning on installations and collaborations as much as standalone objects. IKEA’s format fits that pattern: chefs, interior designers and local musicians are part of the program around the exhibition. (nytimes.com, ingka.com) Visitors can enter from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. from April 21 through April 25, with a shorter 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. schedule on April 26. By then, IKEA will have made its Milan point: the week’s design conversation is moving through the kitchen, and it wants a seat at that table. (portaveneziadesigndistrict.com)
