The New Objets Nomades Piece Revisits Pierre Legrain’s 1923 Design And Louis Vuitton’s Art Deco Heritage
Louis Vuitton is expanding its Pierre Legrain Homage Collection with the Kubic Armchair, a new addition to its Objets Nomades design collection that will make its debut during Paris Design Week 2026.
The piece will be presented from September 10 through September 13 at the Hôtel Particulier Louis Vuitton on rue de Martignac in Paris, alongside the House’s latest Objets Nomades creations. The broader collection was first presented at Palazzo Serbelloni during Milan Design Week earlier this year.
The Kubic Armchair draws on a historic design conceived by French Artist and Designer Pierre Legrain in 1923 for collector and couturier Jacques Doucet. Louis Vuitton’s contemporary interpretation retains the original’s strongly geometric construction, characterized by cubic forms, a trapezoidal backrest and faceted armrests.
The armrests are covered in Louis Vuitton’s Nomade leather, while rosewood side legs provide a contrast in material and structure. The combination reflects the intersection of Art Deco and Cubist influences that informed Legrain’s work while placing an emphasis on the House’s leatherworking and cabinet-making techniques.
The launch continues Louis Vuitton’s exploration of its early relationship with furniture and the decorative arts, particularly during the period when Gaston-Louis Vuitton expanded the House’s creative activities beyond luggage and travel.
Legrain was an important figure in that history. Working across decoration, illustration, bookbinding and furniture, he collaborated with Louis Vuitton during the 1920s and created the House’s first piece of furniture, the Louis Vuitton Dressing Table.
The Pierre Legrain Homage Collection was developed in connection with the centenary of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris, the event that helped establish the Art Deco movement internationally. Louis Vuitton participated in the exhibition during a period when the House was increasingly engaging with decorative arts and new approaches to modern living.
Rather than reproducing Legrain’s work literally, the collection uses his geometric language and material experimentation as a starting point for contemporary pieces. The Kubic Armchair continues that approach, connecting a design created more than a century ago with the craftsmanship and materials of Louis Vuitton today.
Its Paris presentation will also place the armchair within the wider context of Objets Nomades, the limited-edition furniture and design program Louis Vuitton established in 2012. The project brings together designers and artisans to create furniture and objects that frequently draw on the House’s history of travel, leatherwork and craftsmanship.
Objets Nomades has since become part of a broader push by Louis Vuitton into interiors. In 2025, the House introduced its Home Collections, expanding its design business with furniture, lighting, decorative objects, textiles, tableware and games.
During Paris Design Week, the Kubic Armchair will be shown alongside historical pieces connected to Legrain, Charlotte Perriand and Fortunato Depero, as well as contemporary work from Estudio Campana, Raw Edges and Franck Genser.
The presentation positions the Kubic Armchair not simply as a revival from the archives but as part of Louis Vuitton’s growing dialogue between fashion, furniture and decorative arts. More than 100 years after Legrain created the original for Doucet, its return also underscores how the House is increasingly looking to its design history as it expands its presence in the contemporary interiors market.