This year’s edition of Milan Design Week has brought exhibitors to showcase their A-game. While recognized studios outshine with material innovation, fashion brands are venturing into domains beyond the obvious. Louis Vuitton, for instance, re-releases its first-ever furniture piece – created back in 1921 by Pierre Legrain – to immortalize the flair of Parisian Art Deco.
The maison took over Palazzo Serbelloni at Milan Design Week 2026, with an Objets Nomades installation, reissuing its first-ever Art Deco-inspired furniture designed by Pierre Legrain (1888–1929), also a bookbinder and creator of book covers. This is a tribute to the multi-faceted artist who shaped a bold visual language of geometry and material in bookbinding and interior design, ultimately shaping the Art Deco movement.
In 1921, his collaboration with Louis Vuitton resulted in the brand’s first furniture piece, the Omega-shaped, iconic Celeste dressing table, brimming with the contemporary Art Deco aesthetic. Reissuing this piece of artistic history, the table now comes in lacquered wood and Nomade leather, a form that preserves its original hues and proportions.
The Riviera Chilienne chair is resurrected from the Legrain archives, with wood, leather, and mother-of-pearl marquetry. The chair revels in a refined interplay of material, light, and form.
Large-scale textiles drawn on Legrain’s compositions take up the walls, framing iconic furniture. The maison has also created the Nuits de Paris throw and cushion, inspired by Legrain’s graphic composition for a book cover. The furnishing reinterprets Art Deco motifs through rhythm and color, adding a distinctive touch of graphic elegance.
The Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades collection spans furniture, textiles, art of dining, and decorative items, interweaving historic lineups and new collaborations. The edition dives deep into the 1920s Parisian Art Deco scenes and the works of one of its foremost exponents, while embracing the fervor of collective projects from established and budding generations of creatives.
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Other exhibits in the Objets Nomades include the intricate Cabinet Kaléidoscope and Cocoon Dichroic chair by Estudio Campana, and Stella Armchair by Raw Edges studio. The three pieces explore the sensuous nature of various materials and how they give birth to design.
Moving through the space, the installation is an expressive narrative that trails Louis Vuitton’s evolution from Art Deco craftsmanship to modern collectible design. If you happen to be in Milan this week, the Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades collection will be on display from April 21 to April 26.
