De’ Longhi and La Marzocco Redefine the Coffee Experience at Milan Design Week 2026

TREVISO, Italy--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2026--

Milan Design Week annually transforms the city into a global stage for design culture and functional aesthetics, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors and creatives from around the world to define the year's leading trends.

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Once again, the De’ Longhi Group took the spotlight with activations dedicated to the evolving world of coffee, spanning at-home rituals and out-of-home professional settings.

For Milan Design Week 2026, De’ Longhi presented 'The Smallest Coffee Shop at Home,' where the brand reimagined its bestselling machines in the style of cafes around the world. The idea was developed in collaboration with master miniaturist Simon Weisse. The visionary model-maker is renowned for his work with internationally acclaimed filmmakers, including Wes Anderson on The Grand Budapest Hotel, Luca Guadagnino, and Wim Wenders. The project features five handcrafted coffee shop façades inspired by diverse coffee cultures —Paris, Tokyo, Milan, Copenhagen, and Berlin— mounted directly atop De’Longhi coffee machines. Reimagining the home coffee experience through a highly crafted design lens. The brand leveraged social media influencers at scale to amplify the idea and land the message that a De’Longhi machine is really a small cafe at home.

At the heart of Milan Design Week, CASA La Marzocco displayed a curated program of coffee experiences, product reveals, and talks celebrating craftsmanship and contemporary culture. The exhibition unites the worlds of La Marzocco Home -introducing three new colours: crème, blue, and brushed steel- Modbar, with its original under-counter brewing system, and Officine Fratelli Bambi, La Marzocco’s custom workshop. This showcase was complemented by a limited-edition collection created with Dutch design brand POLSPOTTEN, a collaboration that fuses coffee tradition with modern home design. Beyond the walls of CASA, the brand’s presence extended across Milan through a dynamic network of satellite collaborations and activations.

La Marzocco also partnered with Highsnobiety for The Good Meet-Up Kiosk, a cultural newsstand concept transformed into a meeting point for a break, where coffee, culture, and community meet.

"At Milan Design Week, the Group reinforced the central role of coffee in the modern lifestyle, from the kitchen to the café. Leveraging our position as an industry leader, we fostered a unique dialogue between design and innovation, uniting the global excellence of De’ Longhi brand in the house with the unrivalled professional heritage of La Marzocco.” stated Fabio de’ Longhi, the Group’s CEO.

The Group’s strategic involvement in major global events, paired with a synchronized social media strategy, are successfully accelerating market expansion and brand reach. Indeed, these activations have been amplified by a holistic 'paid + earned' media ecosystem, designed to maximize resonance and engagement.

De’ Longhi and La Marzocco Redefine the Coffee Experience at Milan Design Week 2026

De’ Longhi and La Marzocco Redefine the Coffee Experience at Milan Design Week 2026

De’ Longhi and La Marzocco Redefine the Coffee Experience at Milan Design Week 2026

De’ Longhi and La Marzocco Redefine the Coffee Experience at Milan Design Week 2026

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s pro-European coalition collapsed Tuesday after lawmakers voted against Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, less than a year after he was sworn in, triggering fresh turmoil in the European country.

The no-confidence vote was a blow to Bolojan, who came to power with the aim of ending one of Romania’s worst political crises in its post-communist history.

The leftist Social Democratic Party, or PSD, and the hard-right opposition Alliance for the Unity of Romanians party, or AUR, jointly submitted the motion to Parliament on April 28. PSD withdrew from the coalition last month. On Tuesday, 281 lawmakers voted in favor and four voted against.

Lawmakers from Bolojan’s center-right National Liberal Party, or PNL, and coalition partners, Save Romania Union party and the small ethnic Hungarian UDMR party, abstained.

Romania has faced a long period of instability after the annulment of a presidential election in December 2024. The country has also grappled with one of the highest budget deficits in the European Union, rampant inflation, and a technical recession. In June, when the coalition was voted in, it pledged to reduce the budget deficit, marking it a top priority.

The PSD had often found itself at loggerheads with Bolojan over austerity measures, including tax hikes, public-sector wage and pension freezes, and cuts to state spending and public administration jobs.

Last week, the party accused Bolojan of “failing to implement any genuine reform” in his 10 months leading the government, and said Romania needs a leader who is “capable of collaboration.” Bolojan said that he took tough but necessary fiscal measures that effectively “regained the trust of the markets in the Romanian government.”

Bolojan also called the no-confidence motion “cynical and artificial” and said before the vote that it “seems to be written by people who were not in government every day and did not participate in all the decisions.”

“It is cynical, because it does not take into account the context in which we find ourselves,” he said. “I assumed the position of prime minister, being aware that it comes with enormous pressure and that I would not receive applause from the citizens. But I chose to do what was urgent and necessary for our country.”

The leftist party's president, Sorin Grindeanu, said Bolojan should appoint an interim prime minister until one is voted into office by lawmakers. He also said he expected Romanian President Nicusor Dan to consult PSD.

“I would like us to quickly find a solution … together with the other parties and move forward,” Grindeanu said. “All options are open.”

The secretary-general of Bolojan's party, Dan Motreanu, posted on social media, saying PSD and AUR “have a duty to take over the government, to come up with a prime minister candidate and a clear program,” accusing the two parties of “playing political theater.”

“You cannot overthrow a government and then run away from accountability,” Motreanu wrote, adding that “any signal of political chaos” negatively affects the country's economy and people.

The PSD would be needed to form a pro-European parliamentary majority. The leftist party has previously ruled out forming a government with AUR, whose leader, George Simion, said Tuesday that voters had “supported and wanted water, food, energy,” but had “received taxes, war and poverty.”

Cristian Andrei, a Bucharest-based political consultant, said the crisis will likely lead to a stalemate, since “no one has a majority, or a coalition, and it will take the president ... weeks to find such a majority and name a new prime minister, prolonging the indecision.”

“At this moment, there are two tentative options for a new Cabinet, both difficult to achieve; either a reshuffled coalition, without Bolojan, in the same formation ... or a minority Cabinet, rather led by PSD and satellites from populist parties, like AUR, or other small groups,” he said. “A PSD-AUR official Cabinet is not a possibility today because the president will not endorse it.”

The prime ministerial position was set to be rotated in 2027 from Bolojan to a PSD premier as part of a power-sharing agreement. A general election is scheduled for 2028.

McGrath reported from Leamington Spa, England.

Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan addresses a parliament session ahead of a no confidence vote in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan addresses a parliament session ahead of a no confidence vote in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan reacts during a parliament session ahead of a no confidence vote in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Romanian lawmakers stand during the anthem ahead of a no confidence vote against Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan's government in Romania's parliament in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan arrives at a parliament session ahead of a no confidence vote in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)