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Walking through the streets of Milan during Milan Design Week is always a discovery: during Fuorisalone, courtyards, palaces and showrooms host the art of furniture design in all its forms through evocative installations where outdoor space design undeniably takes center stage. At the same time, inside the pavilions of Salone del Mobile at Rho Fiera, companies presented original solutions conceived specifically for outdoor living, alongside new interpretations of collections originally designed for interiors but now transcending every boundary through a hybrid approach.
From hospitality to residential projects, outdoor spaces have increasingly become the focus of design aimed at creating genuine comfort “outside” as well, with proposals characterized by essential, lightweight and contemporary aesthetics, soft and harmonious forms often inspired by nature and conceived to interact with the landscape.
THE PLAN presents the best outdoor furniture and design solutions showcased at Milan Design Week 2026.
With its sinuous lines and oriental inspiration, Crema Outdoor’s Royal Pagoda parasol features a structure with an anodized aluminium pole, galvanized and painted steel ribs, and an elegant aluminium finial.
The premium solution-dyed acrylic fabric is enhanced by a coordinated decorative trim, also solution-dyed, which emphasizes its forms and enhances the overall design. Thanks to more than 2,500 possible fabric configurations, the parasol adapts with versatility to every project, interpreting different styles and requirements.
For Giovanardi, Salone del Mobile.Milano 2026 was an opportunity to present its vision of sustainability, in which textile recycling becomes pure design inspiration: no longer merely a technical process, but a creative starting point capable of generating concrete solutions that give new life to materials by transforming them into products, surfaces and applications for contemporary design.
Raytent represents a virtuous example of circular economy applied to Irisun acrylic fabric. Developed through the recovery of solution-dyed outdoor acrylic scraps from the solar shading sector, it transforms waste from the awning industry into yarns, fabrics and panels composed of more than 50% recycled fiber, significantly reducing environmental impact and raw material consumption. The project is certified ReMade in Italy, LCA and EPD.
Available in freestanding or wall-mounted versions, Nesos by Protezioni is a covering system that guarantees air and water tightness, high load resistance and ideal thermal insulation.
Its wide perimeter band is designed to integrate the roof slope, ensuring an essential and highly versatile aesthetic. It is available with either a movable roof or fixed panels.
To completely enclose the space and create a fully protected environment, the system can integrate Visio full-glass panoramic enclosures, resistant to rain and wind. Tensioned blinds and LED lighting systems can also be incorporated.
This edition of Salone del Mobile marked the occasion for Vermobil to unveil its rebranding, featuring a new logo and the new payoff True Italian Outdoor. The concept expresses the company’s continuity, where metal—steel, stainless steel and aluminium—is not merely a material but expertise, together with the intention to create objects designed to last. Among the new proposals is Pupa, the seating collection designed by Patrick Norguet, featuring a galvanized steel structure inspired by the bars and cafés of the future and conceived for contemporary hospitality settings.
The essential design of Gibus’ Velvet bioclimatic pergola was featured in 365, the installation designed by Meneghello Paolelli and placed in the symbolic and architectural setting of the Cortile d’Onore at the University of Milan, within the exhibition-event Materiae.
365 interprets materiality as a process of perceptual and spatial transformation, suggesting that matter is not only what we observe, but what makes space perceptible through layering, rhythm and variation. At the same time, it reflects on outdoor living as a continuous environment, where change is not an extraordinary event but a permanent condition capable of adapting and renewing itself throughout the year.
Vision is Sunbrella’s first capsule collection of solution-dyed acrylic fabrics for indoor and outdoor furnishings. Comprising 33 references across five lines—Costa, Aveiro, Aroma, Lumy and Flavour—the collection explores stripes and solid colors through refined weaving techniques. The palette ranges from soft and luminous tones to deeper shades, blending naturally into a variety of living environments.
Designed by Nichetto® for Infiniti, Linnéa redefines the concept of the monobloc chair by preserving its essentiality while updating it through a contemporary language. The project originates from a reflection on the relationship between form and structure and develops around the concept of line, the element defining its identity and visual continuity.
Produced in polypropylene through molding technology—and also available in a recycled industrial plastic (PIR) version—it stands out for the cleanliness of its surfaces and precision of detail, ensuring solidity and durability even under intensive use. Available with or without armrests, both versions are stackable, even together, facilitating space management.
Progettato in collaborazione con UnPizzo, il paravento da esterni Filet è una delle ultime novità presentate da Roda. Disponibile in due versioni, orizzontale e verticale, è pensato per definire e articolare gli spazi con leggerezza, come un delicato filtro tra spazi che interagiscono tra loro. L’intreccio, realizzato a mano, combina cinghie di diverse dimensioni e colori, che possono essere di un unico colore o di due. La loro sovrapposizione sugli elementi metallici della struttura genera una trama tridimensionale di grande effetto visivo, in cui pieni e vuoti, ombre e trasparenze si alternano secondo un disegno preciso.
Originally launched last year by S-cab, the Koala seating collection has now been reinterpreted by Zaven for outdoor use. The weaving of nautical ropes around the tubular backrest redefines the idea of comfort according to the needs of open-air spaces such as cafés, poolside areas, terraces and public squares. An optional cushion completes the product, offering soft support. Like its indoor counterpart, Koala Outdoor stands out for its vibrant colors and strong graphic identity.
Designed by Jaime Hayon, Archeo is Magis’ new collection of stools and side tables characterized by intentionally irregular geometries. Its mutable and dynamic surfaces reveal a different face from every angle, evoking forms eroded by time and silhouettes reminiscent of ancient artifacts, as though recently unearthed from the earth. The collection results from in-depth material research, developing a texture recalling stone weathered by natural elements. This effect is achieved through rotationally molded polyethylene, a technology offering great expressive freedom while combining formal complexity and aesthetic richness.
Igea, disegnata da Matteo Thun e Benedetto Fasciana, rilegge in chiave contemporanea un grande classico dell’arredo da esterno: le collezioni in ferro battuto. Realizzata in ferro zincato e rifinita con una verniciatura color grafite, è il risultato di un’attenta ricerca tecnica e produttiva finalizzata a preservare il carattere e la resistenza del ferro, rendendolo al contempo funzionale, assemblabile e adatto alle esigenze del mondo contract. Questa proposta di Unopiù rappresenta un equilibrio tra tradizione e contemporaneità, dove la purezza delle forme e la leggerezza del ferro trasformano la semplicità in un segno distintivo dell’abitare all’aperto.
Originally composed of wooden furnishings, Alessandro Ghiringhelli’s Martina collection now expands with two new metal versions. Martina Dehors is conceived for refined and protected settings, combining a metal frame with a seat and backrest available either in wood or with upholstered cushions. Martina Outdoor, on the other hand, is designed for purer outdoor environments and direct exposure to the elements, thanks to a minimalist and resistant all-metal structure that can also integrate an optional cushion.
Designed by Roberto Capati, Current by Veltha interprets water as a silent and continuous element. Its form is pure and almost archetypal: a slender volume precisely carved to welcome water naturally, without emphasizing the gesture. The travertine, with its warm tones and natural irregularities, introduces a tactile and luminous dimension. The surface, polished yet never uniform, captures light and returns it softly and vibrantly.
Designed by Pininfarina, Orizzonte Sunbed represents the natural evolution of Reflex’s Orizzonte collection, conceived for residential environments, open-air spaces and high-end nautical contexts. The lounger interprets a contemporary vision of relaxation in which comfort is not only functional but also immediately perceptible visually. Its forms are soft, harmonious and welcoming, inspired by organic “pebble-shape” volumes capable of dialoguing with the landscape without imposing themselves upon it. A horizontal line crossing the volume becomes the collection’s stylistic signature, lightening the perception of the upholstery while discreetly integrating technical functions.
During Milan Design Week 2026, Fim Umbrellas transformed the Biblioteca Umanistica dell’Incoronata into a temporary workshop. With La fabbrica dell’ombra, an installation designed by 967arch, the company brought to center stage its identity: work, material and technical craftsmanship that have defined its approach to outdoor design for over fifty years.
Outside the library, between the entrance and Corso Garibaldi, the installation opened to the city with the new Feel Good parasols designed by Parisotto+Formenton, integrating an upholstered pouf at the base and transforming the product into a true urban micro-architecture.
Like waves gently chasing one another across the sea surface, the lines of Antigua create a harmonious rhythm of balance and movement, translating the fluidity of water into enveloping forms and calibrated proportions. Designed by Federica Biasi for Emu, the collection includes a dining proposal featuring table, chairs and armchairs that coherently interpret its light and distinctive spirit. The aluminium structure wrapped in woven material—Antigua’s defining feature—interacts with the dining table designed to accommodate up to eight people, becoming the refined focal point for shared moments and conviviality.
For Talenti, Milan Design Week 2026 was an opportunity to present increasingly flexible furnishing solutions between indoor and outdoor living. Among these, Rayle, designed by Ludovica Serafini + Roberto Palomba, originates from an observation of spatial dynamism inspired by a Thai beach where large rock formations appear suspended above water, shaped by the sea until they seem to float lightly despite their imposing scale.
For a collection conceived both for interiors and exteriors, the main challenge lies in materials. The outdoor version employs matte lacquered aluminium for the structure—ensuring durability without sacrificing a silky tactile quality—and thermoformed back-lacquered glass with irregular profiles that evoke the natural imperfection of organic elements, like stones polished by water.
New entry nella collezione di sedute outdoor di Pedrali, lo sgabello Coney, disegnato da Mandelli Pagliarulo, si distingue per le sue linee essenziali e leggerezza visiva ed è caratterizzato da una struttura monomaterica in tubo d’acciaio curvato che conferisce resistenza. La seduta e lo schienale definiscono tridimensionalmente il punto di appoggio, garantendo solidità strutturale ed ergonomia. Lo schienale, in lamiera sagomata stampata, ricrea doghe verticali equidistanti che dialogano con le doghe orizzontali della seduta, definendo un pattern distintivo.
A new addition to Pedrali’s outdoor seating collection, the Coney stool designed by Mandelli Pagliarulo stands out for its essential lines and visual lightness. Its monomaterial curved steel tube structure ensures resistance, while the seat and backrest define the support point three-dimensionally, guaranteeing both structural solidity and ergonomics. The shaped sheet-metal backrest recreates evenly spaced vertical slats dialoguing with the seat’s horizontal slats, generating a distinctive pattern.
During Fuorisalone, Nodo Italia took center stage at NonostanteMarras, where designer Antonio Marras presented the immersive installation PicNic a Le Vasche di Ciu’ Peppì, a project intertwining fashion, design, art and Sardinian memory. The installation unfolded as an evocative landscape inspired by the island’s beaches, creating a contemporary seaside mood in which outdoor living became a space of quietness and conviviality.
The Antonio Marras + Nodo Italia furnishings are expressed through outdoor and indoor collections including rattan armchairs, the Bistrot folding chair, parasols and rugs, the Beach House lounger and pouf, the Via tiled table and the Pantheon pouf.
Adatta per arredare sia spazi interni che outdoor, la collezione living Vera, disegnata da LCM Marin design studio per Lyxo,presenta le forme morbide e avvolgenti. I dettagli decorativi, eleganti e geometrici, ricordano le foglie, mentre la forma del cuscino ricorda quella del fiore di loto. Un richiamo alla bellezza della natura che ci avvolge nel suo abbraccio e trasforma ogni spazio in un rifugio elegante e suggestivo, per un’esperienza tattile e sensoriale che connette profondamente corpo umano e design. La struttura è in polietilene, stampato in rotazionale, 100% riciclabile.
Suitable for both indoor and outdoor spaces, the Vera living collection designed by LCM Marin Design Studio for Lyxo features soft and enveloping forms. Its elegant geometric decorative details recall leaves, while the shape of the cushion evokes the lotus flower. A tribute to the beauty of nature, transforming every space into an elegant and evocative refuge for a tactile and sensory experience that deeply connects the human body with design. The structure is made of 100% recyclable rotationally molded polyethylene.
>>> Discover also the best indoor furniture showcased at MDW 2026
Cover image courtesy Giovanardi
