Secolo and TABLEAU preview Trace sofa and Pingu side table at Milano Design Week 2026
Secolo announces its collaboration with TABLEAU for Milano Design Week 2026 at its showroom on Via Giuseppe Giacosa 35 in Milan. The project includes two new products and a reimagined version of Secolo’s Pingu side table, presented within an installation designed by TABLEAU for the showroom.
The collaboration with TABLEAU signals a turning point for Secolo: for the first time, the company will present works by an external designer. Alongside product development, the partnership extends to the design of an installation inside Secolo’s showroom, creating a unified environment for the collection’s release during the citywide design program that runs in parallel to Salone del Mobile and its satellite events.
“The work developed with TABLEAU represents an important step for Secolo,” says Salvatore Morales, Creative Director of Secolo. He explains that what began as a product-focused collaboration evolved into a shared imaginative universe that moves from the collection to graphic identity and culminates in the experience of the installation.
Across products and presentation, the project reflects on reconnection, interpreting design as a way to foster connection through imagination, sharing, tactility, and a spontaneous approach to living. The concept links domestic objects to an emotional register that recalls the spontaneity of childhood, positioning furniture not only as function, but as an active participant in everyday relationships.
The preview focuses on three projects. The first is Trace, a new sofa designed by TABLEAU. The second is TABLEAU’s reinterpretation of one of Secolo’s most iconic pieces, the Pingu side table. The third is Plumea, a new lounge chair designed by Secolo and positioned as a key piece of the 2026 collection.
Trace translates the theme through continuous curves that define its silhouette. Generous in proportion and intended to be experienced from every side, the sofa is presented as a social object that supports interaction. Seat and backrest intertwine into organic forms aligned with Secolo’s aesthetic, turning the idea of reconnection into a physical, lived condition.
“Trace is an object defined as much by its function as by its presence,” says TABLEAU founder and Creative Director Julius Værnes Iversen. He adds that the sofa draws inspiration from sensory perception, referencing the feeling of floating and losing track of time, as an invitation for the body to relax and the mind to let go.
For the Pingu side table, TABLEAU introduces an artistic take-over that preserves the lacquered finish and the signature inverted dome that appears to lightly graze the curved base, maintaining its balanced, airy equilibrium. Over this essential architecture, a graphic layer appears: floral drawings made “with closed eyes” using blind drawing, allowing instinctive movement to guide the hand and letting emotion surface through unexpected marks. The intervention adds a new emotional resonance without changing the object’s identity.
Plumea, designed by Secolo, draws on the world of dreams while bringing an intimate mood into the living area. Upholstered seat and backrest echo pillow-like forms, resting as a self-contained volume on a squared, high-gloss lacquered frame. The contrast between soft upholstery and solid structure emphasizes material presence and form, reinforcing the collection’s focus on human experience and direct contact with objects.
Together, the sofa, the reimagined side table, and the lounge chair propose a coherent language for Milano Design Week 2026, framing space as a place of listening, closeness, and renewed relationships with things and with one another.
Photography by Frank Stelitano, with courtesy of Secolo
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