The House presents new collectible design pieces and historic trunks at Palazzo Serbelloni, tracing a dialogue between Art Deco heritage and contemporary craft
Louis Vuitton has unveiled its latest Objets Nomades collections during Milan Design Week 2026, staging an expansive exhibition at Palazzo Serbelloni that pairs new furniture and decorative objects with archival trunks and travel pieces from the House’s heritage collection. Open to the public from April 21 to 26, the presentation positions Louis Vuitton’s design universe within one of Milan’s grandest historic interiors, where past and present are arranged with deliberate theatricality.
The exhibition begins with a tribute to Pierre Legrain, the influential Art Deco designer whose work informs several new creations and textile pieces. Signed illustrations, early trunks, fragrance bottles, and travel accessories are displayed alongside installations evoking a 1920s train carriage, reinforcing Louis Vuitton’s longstanding association with movement, craftsmanship, and the decorative arts. Across adjoining rooms, visitors encounter immersive environments organized by bold color palettes, with furniture, rugs, tableware, and textiles drawn from both recent and newly introduced Objets Nomades collections.
Highlights include reissued and reinterpreted historical designs, contemporary works by Estudio Campana, Raw Edges, Patrick Jouin, and Cristian Mohaded, as well as a monumental courtyard installation created in collaboration with students from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. The result is less a conventional showcase than a curated interior landscape, where Louis Vuitton continues to treat design as both collectible object and narrative medium.
At the House’s Via Montenapoleone store, the programming extends to a parallel presentation of exceptional trunks, including the stained-glass Malle Courrier Lozine Maison de Famille, created for a recent Pharrell Williams show, alongside the Malle Paravent and the reimagined Malle Lit. Together, the two Milan sites underscore a strategy Louis Vuitton has refined with precision: transforming heritage into an active design language rather than a static archive. In a week crowded with furniture, Louis Vuitton arrives with luggage—and, predictably, travels well.
