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With its more than 23,000 sq. m of exhibition space, 106 exhibitors — 38.6% of them international from 17 countries — EuroCucina 2026 brought to Milan Design Week the latest innovations in kitchens and major household appliances. This year, more than ever, the sector revealed itself as a meeting ground for technology, sustainability, smart systems, artificial intelligence, biophilic design, and personalized user experiences. Driving the evolution of the kitchen is an integrated and multisensory vision, with kitchens increasingly conceived as open-plan environments merging seamlessly with living spaces. Interactive surfaces, invisible induction cooktops, integrated hoods, and equipped columns also took center stage. This evolution also extends to tactile and sustainable materials: FSC-certified woods, antibacterial ceramics, regenerated laminates, and recycled laminated glass.
At the same time, the world of major household appliances is also evolving. At FTK – Technology For the Kitchen, companies showcased increasingly silent, integrated, and autonomous devices. Emerging trends include refrigerators capable of recognizing food, suggesting recipes, and organizing grocery shopping in the cloud; intelligent ovens that adjust cooking according to the type of food and user preferences; and dishwashers that self-dose detergent, clean themselves, and communicate when maintenance is needed.
THE PLAN presents a selection of innovations that extended far beyond EuroCucina, reaching all corners of Milan and beyond.
Gaggenau, a brand specializing in luxury professional appliances, chose one of the most representative residences of 1930s Milan — Villa Necchi Campiglio — as the centerpiece of its Milan Design Week presence. With the installation entitled Presence, the glass pavilion immersed in the villa’s gardens was transformed into a journey through design and the brand’s latest innovations, thanks to a project developed in collaboration with Munich-based architecture studio 1zu33 and realized by Conduk.
At the heart of the installation, a series of focal points presented Gaggenau innovations as part of a broader architectural composition: the Expressive series oven, for example, was framed by a central travertine staircase; the Minimalistic series stood against a backlit mirrored and smoked-glass backdrop; the Vario cooktops were integrated into basalt and charred wood; and the Vario Expressive refrigeration centers and wine climate cabinets were displayed in burnished brass. As an integral part of the installation, the products merged with the structures and revealed themselves through placement, materiality, and proportion.
Drawing on the experience of Ego — the kitchen from which the entire Abimis story began — designer Alberto Torsello created the new TU kitchen, reinterpreting the original’s aesthetic and functional principles with a rigorous and contemporary language. Made entirely of stainless steel, TU introduces a new stylistic identity characterized by sharp lines and surfaces crafted with sartorial precision.
Enhancing and defining the character of this innovation are the diamond-cut doors, which highlight the materiality of steel. The forged folds of the doors capture and reflect light, creating dynamic and sculptural surfaces that transform the material into a living element. The geometries become more squared and decisive, expressing an essential aesthetic with a strong architectural identity, while the angular handles integrated into the door design reinforce the project’s formal clarity and stylistic coherence. The kitchen is seamless, a distinctive feature of Abimis production that ensures visual continuity, hygiene, and durability over time.
Alongside its flagship store, Cesar presented several innovations during Milan Design Week, including the update of the Tangram system, designed by García Cumini, who has led the company’s artistic direction since 2014. Tangram stands out for its unconventional approach to geometry: surfaces are shaped through variable-radius curves, sometimes combined with fixed radii, giving rise to ever-changing organic configurations. Visual rhythm also becomes an identifying element, activating a dynamic dialogue between light and shadow that transforms the surface into a perceptual experience. With the introduction of the new Palmier edge, Tangram further strengthens its character, confirming itself as a system capable of combining formal research and technical complexity.
At EuroCucina, Elica unveiled — within its more than 600-sq. m stand designed by studio Calvi Brambilla — its first range of induction cooktops featuring proprietary technology, entirely designed by Elica, together with a new user interface inspired by the most advanced sectors, from automotive to consumer electronics. The company developed in-house both the hardware and software architecture governing the product’s core technology: the proprietary ID Technology originated from a € 2 million research project. The cooking surface of these cooktops is flexible and ergonomic, designed to maximize cooking space on models with integrated extraction, resulting in greater comfort, freedom of movement, and more intuitive control.
Moreover, induction cooktops equipped with ID Technology will feature the new Matrix user interface, a pixel-matrix system capable of delivering smoother and more intuitive interaction through highly defined graphics. The result is a dynamic and distinctive aesthetic able to generate infographics, animations, and textual messages, raising the standards of the category. To present all its innovations, the company developed the stand concept Where Cooking Has No Borders.
At EuroCucina, the Euromobil stand — developed in continuity with Desiree and in dialogue with Zalf — was conceived as a unified and walkable space designed to clearly and coherently express the group’s identity: a continuous spatial device in which the kitchen becomes part of a broader domestic system. It is within this context that Euromobil developed a precise reflection on the kitchen as domestic architecture: a space where technology, materiality, and everyday use find a rigorous balance capable of conveying a measured, coherent, and durable idea of living.
Among the many innovations on display, the standout was the SEI kitchen designed by Marc Sadler. In the version presented at the fair, it takes the form of a compact volume defined by rigorous composition and strong constructive coherence. Stainless steel surfaces, interpreted through different material finishes, interact with the continuous finish of the doors, while details are not concealed but integrated into the project language. Technology is not hidden but made legible.
At EuroCucina and within the renewed spaces of the Miele Experience Center in the city, Miele presented the concept Designed to Move with You, aimed at redefining the kitchen as a reactive and connected living space designed to harmonize with the rhythms of daily life and evolve with them, thanks to compact spaces and intuitive technology.
At EuroCucina / FTK – Technology For the Kitchen, Miele created a stand conceived as a sensory journey where physical and digital elements blend together. Innovations included the KM 8000 induction cooktop with M Sense pots and pans, CulinaryCoach — a new AI-based assistant integrated into the Miele app — and the new steam drawer. The latter, integrating professional-level steam cooking into a compact and ergonomic design, will be available starting in March 2027. Ventilation also becomes part of the architectural concept in the 2-in-1 cooktop with integrated extractor hood, now also available in a compact 60 cm version, while the new built-in hood with glass panel integrates almost invisibly into cabinetry. Finally, Outdoor Cooking translates the Designed to Move with You philosophy into a modular outdoor kitchen concept.
At the Miele Experience Center in the Brera Design District, the company also presented a design concept for kitchens in reduced spaces: Miele Compact Living: Kitchen Unit powered by Hettich, a multifunctional system responding to shrinking living spaces by combining kitchen, pantry, and living functions into a single compact unit.
Tracce, the new capsule collection by SKS developed with Abet Laminati, explores the expressive potential of surfaces by reinterpreting graphics created by the masters of Milanese radical design. Tracce continues SKS’s journey toward redefining the role of kitchen appliances: the collection dresses SKS undercounter appliances — the undercounter Wine Cellar and convertible undercounter Refrigerator — with iconic patterns, transforming them from simple functional elements into transversal design pieces.
Three patterns are available: Bacterio by Ettore Sottsass, Digital Circus by Alessandro Mendini, and Misura by the Superstudio collective. Bold and unconventional, they offer a contemporary vision of signs from the past that defined still-relevant languages during the 1960s and 1970s.
Created in collaboration with Stefano Boeri Interiors, SMEG’s Isola collection seeks to emphasize the appliance as the visual and design centerpiece of the kitchen space. Isola includes a range of induction cooktops with integrated extraction systems that can be paired with a sophisticated illuminated rail system, as well as cooktops designed to be combined with suspended hoods.
The Isola induction cooktops are available in three main variants: Flat, distinguished by rounded corners and an essential design; Alta, which includes both traditional induction cooktops and models with integrated extraction, introducing a raised stainless steel or matte black frame that gives the cooktop greater three-dimensionality; and Alta Pro, integrating a motorized downdraft hood that automatically rises during cooking and retracts afterward, equipped with GenX technology ensuring greater cooking precision, reduced consumption, quieter operation, and faster preparation times.
The collection is characterized by rounded forms and a palette of materials combining anodized aluminum in stainless steel tones — an iconic hallmark of the brand — with black glass that adds a contemporary touch. Isola cooktops can be paired with matching hoods equipped with dimmable lighting and a metal touch display. Completing the system is a suspended lighting rail designed to be paired with cooktops featuring integrated extraction and controllable through gesture commands.
On the occasion of its 80th anniversary, Snaidero participated in EuroCucina and Fuorisalone presenting the theme Synesthesia, linked to the idea of multisensory perception, unveiled both at the fair and within the Snaidero showroom in the heart of the Brera district. At the center of the narrative is the kitchen, around which the living area revolves and integrates — a new field of evolution for the Friulian brand.
Within the stand, designed by Bestetti Associati in collaboration with DesignWork, the kitchen was conceived as a dynamic hub transcending functionality to become true architecture. The Sistema Snaidero division — symbolizing modular furnishings adaptable to multiple configurations and finishes — introduced several innovations in the Elementi, Orbita, and Quadra compositions, including the debut of new internal accessories and unprecedented finishes such as ribbed aluminum wood in American Walnut, as well as stone-effect ceramics and natural marbles. In the living area, the Rialto and Modula solutions were enriched respectively with the freestanding Rialto 360 version and the expansion of the suspended drawer range for creating Modula equipped walls.
