Milan Design Week 2026

Milan Design Week 2026: A Day at Salone del Mobile

Written by
Ella Block

The design world descended on Milan in April. Here’s what our team discovered at Salone del Mobile 2026, and why it matters for your next project.

Every year, the design world heads to Milan. Salone del Mobile is where the most interesting thinking in furniture, interiors, and product design comes together, and where the next ideas are already taking shape.

The brands we work with are committed to innovation, design, and pushing what’s technically possible, and there’s no better place to see that than at Salone del Mobile. Now in its 64th year, the show hosted over 1,900 exhibitors at the Fiera Milano. Going as a team means we see more, compare notes, and come back with a clearer sense of what’s coming and what will matter to our customers. This April, Ella, Nick, Hal and Vanessa from our showrooms around the UK spent the day there. Here’s a snapshot of our radiator highlights.

Milano radiator

Tubes

If one stand summed up where radiator design is going, it was Tubes. Their space had been conceived by an artist and presented the radiators almost like exhibits in a gallery, each piece given room to breathe and be properly considered. It worked brilliantly.

Two radiators really stood out: the Milano and the Grid. The Milano is one of Tubes’ most iconic ranges and celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. It’s sculptural, architectural, and genuinely striking on a wall or standing on a floor. It delivers effective heat output, but it reads first and foremost as a considered design object. For high-end, design-led interiors, it’s the kind of piece that stops people in their tracks because it doesn’t look like a traditional radiator.

The Grid spoke to a growing trend for modular radiators designed for longevity, flexibility on where it can be used with different accessories, and with eco-conscious production and carbon footprint increasingly part of the conversation.

Frame Horizontal radiator

Cordivari

Cordivari took a practical approach, using interior room sets to give their radiators context. They showed the Frame Horizontal installed between shelves in a colour that blended with the wall, which was sophisticated and great inspiration for more design-led customers.

They also showcased the new Sofi range, which is worth knowing about if you’re planning a heat pump system. It’s designed to perform at lower temperatures and does so with impressive efficiency.

Pastels, deep jewel tones, and muted greens and blues were dominant across the show. Radiators reflected this. Shifting away from white as a default towards soft pinks, terracotta, and matte black, becoming integrated accent pieces rather than something to minimise. Cordivari’s stand was a good showcase of this.

Heated towel rail in PVD finished metal

Margaroli

Margaroli‘s focus this year was their new PVD finishes, and for the first time they had their complete PVD range on display in one place. The star of the stand was a new towel rail they were launching, which brought square and round tubes together in a way that looked effortless. No visible joins, no weld marks. That’s a Margaroli signature: the engineering is there, you just can’t see it. The quality speaks for itself.

The new PVD colours were equally interesting. Expanding on popular colour choices like brass and bronze into chocolates and gun metals, very much in step with where the wider bathroom fixture and fitting market is heading. Margaroli’s PVD finishes are noteworthy as they look as though the metal was always that colour. When you see it in person, it’s immediately obvious why it’s a top choice for interior designers and architects.

Pypeline minimalist heated towel rail

Antrax IT

Antrax IT were, as ever, on the money with their branding and product direction. Two new pieces caught our eye. The first was a modular, architecturally striking bar, Pypeline, shown both horizontally alongside a bath and vertically. Striking, simple, and very considered. The second was the Hashi – an aesthetically pleasing, minimalist towel rail which came with numerous add-on accessories, such as a mirror, hooks or hangers.

What we brought back

More than anything, the trip reinforced something we already believe: radiators are design decisions, not afterthoughts. The brands doing the most interesting work are thinking hard about how a piece sits within a space, how it ages, how it performs, and how it looks as much as how it works.