Louis Vuitton adds 11 outstanding products to its home furniture line

With these striking additions to its line of travel-inspired home furnishings, Louis Vuitton has taken luxury interior design—and literally—to new heights.

The bright red armchair you see here began its life like a tennis ball—if only in the minds of Yael Mer and Shay Alcalay. Raw Edges, their London-based studio, conceived the piece (4) plus a matching sofa for Louis Vuitton’s Objets Nomades—the house’s collection of furniture, artwork and objects. Luxury homes made by a host of illustrious design firms—debuting these additional new products this month during the Milan Furniture Fair.

To the Raw Edges team, Objets Nomades means “interesting sculptures,” says Mer. “So it’s hard to sit in the studio and think how can we come up with a new design.” Instead, employees take a “creative break” from ongoing projects to dream up designs without a clear purpose or purpose. The familiar translucent globe meets the wonderfully curved seating arrangement. Mer added: “There’s something about this model that’s so cute and satisfying to us that we just can’t let it sit on the shelf.”

EQUAL oppose nomination Suggestions, other creators have also drawn inspiration from the weird and the cool. For Vuitton’s recently opened restaurant in Chengdu, China, Swiss company Atelier Oï created a room-spanning chandelier in coral orange leather; they have now recreated the twisted beauty (3) on a closer scale. And for a literal soaring metaphor, Oï turned to the Latin American quetzal, based on a 22-pound cell phone (2), also in leather, on the spectacular plumage of birds. sacred; fan art can “swirl and hover expertly,” as Oï puts it, at summer dinner parties.

Milan’s local talent is also part of the herd. For the Tower of Flowers (1), a blown glass column nearly 6 feet tall and intended to evoke a cityscape, Alberto Biagetti and Laura Baldassari of Atelier Biagetti give a nod to Vuitton’s history: From an isometric perspective, you have The fashion brand’s geometric floral motif (trademarked as part of a monogram in 1896) has a luminous shape. Along with special pieces that are more about form than function—like Campana’s mercury-colored sofa and “cocoon” chandelier (not pictured), based on their own previous designs for Objets Nomades—the lighting and interiors are Vuitton’s biggest pieces, some made to order (price on request).

Smaller gems form one sous-thu called Petits Nomades, like glittering glassware (5)—designed by Studio Louis Vuitton itself; $560 for a pair of drinking glasses—colors reminiscent of cool 1970s cocktail bars. Who doesn’t want to drink through a pink glass?