Louis Vuitton Unveils Art Deco Objets Nomades and Interiors Push in Milan
Louis Vuitton turned Palazzo Serbelloni into a collectible-design showroom, reviving Pierre-Émile Legrain’s 1921 dressing table and expanding Objets Nomades into gifts for homes and collector spaces.
Louis Vuitton used Milan Design Week to make a sharp point: the house no longer wants to be read only through handbags and trunks. At Palazzo Serbelloni, from April 21 to 26, the brand staged an exhibition that paired new Objets Nomades pieces with its iconic trunks, presenting Art Deco and contemporary design as a single, giftable language for homes, offices, and collector interiors.
The most consequential object in the room was Pierre-Émile Legrain’s 1921 omega-shaped dressing table, which Louis Vuitton describes as the maison’s first furniture piece. Originally commissioned by Gaston-Louis Vuitton, the design has been reissued in lacquered wood and Nomade leather, a combination that gives it the right balance of archive credibility and modern finish. It is the kind of piece that signals more than taste: it signals access to a scarce design conversation that sits somewhere between furniture, art object, and trophy purchase.
That is the territory Louis Vuitton has been cultivating since 2012 through Objets Nomades, the collection that invites international designers to create limited-edition furniture and objects shaped by the house’s leathercraft. In Milan, the expansion went well beyond seating and storage. The 2026 edition also included Legrain-inspired pieces such as a Riviera chaise longue, a folding screen, a leather marquetry box, a tableware set, a throw, and the Nuits de Paris cushion, pushing the label deeper into the world of entertaining, decorating, and housewarming gifts for clients who already have everything ordinary.
The setting mattered. Palazzo Serbelloni’s historic rooms gave the presentation the weight of an interior rather than a sales floor, which suits Louis Vuitton’s current ambition: to be bought not just for logo recognition but for collectible design. Pietro Beccari, the company’s chairman and chief executive, said the maison has the legitimacy to honor Legrain, and that claim is the real sell. In a market where luxury increasingly overlaps with design culture, Louis Vuitton is offering one purchase that delivers status, scarcity, and a usable object with art-deco pedigree.
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