ALPI’s new releases from Salone del Mobile 2026

At Milan Design Week 2026, ALPI presented new veneers that show how a surface expresses atmosphere, light and architectural intent. This year’s releases are shaped by two complementary sensibilities. Yabu Pushelberg – collaborating with ALPI for the first time – brings a dreamlike imagination that treats the wood surface as something closer to weather, or memory.

And Piero Lissoni, art director since 2015, continues his measured exploration of timber species through structured restraint.

ALPI Aurora by Yabu Pushelberg

Aurora reads as a landscape in continual transformation. Inspired by the striations of bark, the collection translates this natural cadence into a surface that seems to expand and contract under changing light.Aurora Purple runs deep shades of purple, blue and petroleum green through the material in shimmery succession. Aurora Natural offers a gentler tone, a flowing sequence of pale brown and cool beige that moves with a natural effect.

The reference to bark places Aurora in dialogue with earlier additions to the ALPI Designer Collection – Maritime Pine and Japanese Cedar among them – where the patterns of the natural world are distilled into a beautifully composed surface.

ALPI Birch by Yabu Pushelberg

Birch draws directly from the patterns of Birch bark with three colourways of varying intensity. Birch White takes its cue from the tree itself, all soft light and subtle depth. Birch Grey settles into an intermediate register where the grain has a contemplative, softened contrast. Birch Black makes the most decisive statement, its dark base lets the pale grain rise to the fore – a surface with the same impact of a drawing. The perfect complement to Birch Black is the dark evenness of Eveneer ALPI Xilo Black Touch, where the two together produce an effect that feels like a composition.

ALPI Xilo Acacia by Piero Lissoni

A timber with its own collective memory, Acacia is an ancient tree native to Australia and Africa and has been culturally revered for millennia. A sophisticated, dynamic and consistently balanced recut veneer, Xilo Acacia is sourced from managed FSC forests and processed using an innovative thermal treatment creating its unique surface structure and warm tonal intensity.

Acacia is the perfect complement to Elton Group’s Xilo White, Black, Sand, Walnut, Cherry and Grey – available in planked, striped and flamed grain patterns.

ALPI Microline by Piero Lissoni

Microline is the quietest of the four releases, and perhaps the most architectural. Colour is applied evenly across the surface, producing an impression of continuity and lightness without contrast. From a distance, the seven shades read as a refined, consistent tone. From up close, almost invisibly fine lines of grain reveal a texture closer to fabric than timber. It results in a veneer that can express real atmosphere.

These new releases from Milan highlight the innovation that veneer is capable of. The wider Elton Group range offers the considered complementary surfaces that allow these more expressive releases to take centre stage.

Contact enquire@eltongroup.com for sampling, release dates and specification advice on the 2026 ALPI collections.

Photos: Federico Cedrone