27.04.2026 | Duravit at Milan Design Week 2026

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Patricia Urquiola and her team spent a year working on the Balcoon–Scapes installation, which was presented at the Gran Meliá Palazzo Cordusio (photograph: Duravit AG)

• Atmospheric installation "Balcoon – Scapes" at the Gran Meliá Palazzo Cordusio
• Exclusive cocktail event with some 450 invited guests to kick off the week
• Insights into bathroom design and international design partnerships
• Limited-edition Balcoon stool as a sculptural collector's item
• Branded tram and shuttle bus make the brand visible around the city

Duravit was on show with an eclectic brand presentation during Milan Design Week 2026. The centerpiece was the installation "Balcoon – Scapes" by Patricia Urquiola, which commutes core elements of the Balcoon bathroom series into an atmospheric, sculptural spatial composition. Duravit additionally displayed selected new products and iconic ranges in its own showroom, while a well-placed presence around the city boosted visibility for the brand throughout the week.


Balcoon – Scapes: The bathroom range as a spatial composition

As a continuation of her collaboration with Duravit, Patricia Urquiola's "Balcoon – Scapes" commuted the design idiom of the Balcoon range into a spatial presentation. The installation abstracted round and square basic shapes, material overlaps and warm color moods into a structured field of objects. Washbasins and toilets are released from their functional roles and presented as totem-like elements. A toilet with a fur-like texture and bidets featuring strikingly structured layers of concrete add deliberately disconcerting touches and lend the installation a playful character.
Patricia Urquiola describes the approach thus: "We wanted to show how even such functional elements as a washbasin or a bidet can develop an expressiveness of their own. We worked on this installation for more than a year. The result is a little "teatrino" – a field of totems and objects which enter into dialog with one another and open up new perspectives on the bathroom as a designed living environment."
The installation was presented at the Gran Meliá Palazzo Cordusio, where it was open throughout the week to the many people visiting Milan Design Week.


An exclusive evening above the rooftops of Milan

At the start of the Design Week, Duravit hosted an exclusive cocktail event on the rooftop of the Gran Meliá Palazzo Cordusio. Some 450 invited guests – including business partners from the fields of architecture and design, friends of the brand and international VIPs such as Kelly Rutherford and Angela Missoni – experienced the installation in an atmospheric evening mood. Patricia Urquiola and Duravit CMO Lüder Fromm welcomed the guests and offered insights into the collaboration and the design approach behind Balcoon – Scapes.


The limited-edition Balcoon stool: a sculptural collector's item

A stool developed with Patricia Urquiola which commutes the design idiom of the Balcoon range into a distinct sculptural item of furniture was on show as part of the installation. The limited edition comprises 26 numbered pieces – a reference to the year 2026 – and was produced at the Duravit plant in the Black Forest. The stool was on show to the public for the first time in Milan, as part of the overall presentation.


Product presentation in the Duravit showroom

In parallel with the installation, Duravit opened the doors of its showroom in Milan to Design Week visitors and was heavily frequented. On show were new additions to the 2026 Balcoon range, iconic bathroom ranges such as ME by Starck and Collection One, new washing area solutions such as Ocavo by Christian Werner and technological highlights such as the SensoWash shower-toilets. The presentation offered a compact overview of the design and technology spectrum covered by the product range and complemented the installation with examples of specific products.

Brand presence in the city
Duravit also made itself known in the city at large. A branded Duravit tram was to be seen around the city throughout the week and a shuttle bus connected the two venues Gran Meliá Palazzo Cordusio and Duravit showroom. These measures raised the brand's profile in the city and provided for additional visibility during Design Week.