Louis Vuitton, Object Nomades
Set within Palazzo Serbelloni, Louis Vuitton’s latest Objets Nomades presentation moves between archival memory and contemporary design. At its centre is the Hommage Collection Pierre Legrain, which returns to the figure of the French decorator, illustrator and cabinetmaker whose work helped shape the maison’s decorative language in the 1920s. Thefirst object to appear is are-edition of the red-and-black dressing table Legrain designed for Louis Vuitton in 1921, placing his presence at the centre of the exhibition from the outset.
From there, the rooms open onto a wider landscape of chairs, ceramics, tables, textiles, and decorative objects. Designers including Estúdio Campana, Raw Edges, Franck Genser, GéraldineGonzalez, and LV Studio pick up elements of Legrain’s work and translate them into contemporary pieces, where leather, marquetry, colour, and geometry recur in different forms.Rather than looking back at Legrain from a distance, the exhibition lets his influence circulate through the present.
His legacy returns not only in furniture, but in smaller details. Book binding motifs, graphic compositions, and ornamental structures reappear in textiles and tableware, allowing ‘Objets Nomades’ to unfold a lived interior shaped by variation and return.
Credits: Photographer Simon 171 / Text by Melania Musci / Location: Palazzo Serbelloni Milano / Creative Partner Simona Pavan