The French House Louis Vuitton expands its collection Objects Nomades of 34 innovative objects, exposed to the public in Milan during the 58th edition of the Design Week.
Born in 2012, the Louis Vuitton Objects Nomades is a limited-edition collection, which celebrate the union between fashion and design. During the past years, some of the most famous international designers used their creativity to imagine singular objects and experimental prototypes, all inspired by the idea of travel. Some of the most important names Louis Vuitton collaborated with are India Mahdavi, Tokujin Yoshioka, Raw Edges, Barber & Osgerby, Nendo, Maarten Baas, Patricia Urquiola, Marcel Wanders, Atelier Oï, Fernando and Umberto Campana.
This year the show takes place under a sky of white lanterns made of paper, in the fantastic spot of Palazzo Serbelloni.
The Objets Nomades are the contemporary manifesto of being nomades: the experience of the voyage, of the eternal wandering, which cannot be contained in predetermined boundaries, but which always changes according to the movement and different inspirations. Being transformable, modular and transportable, this is the nature of Vuitton’s Objects Nomades.
Chairs, Armchairs, Sofas, Coffee tables, they all symbolize inspirations and evoke distant worlds, emulate natural forms and bring to our houses the exoticism of foreign countries.
The 2019 Collection sees two new collaborations: Atelier Biagetti and Zanellato/Bortotto.
Atelier Biagetti presents the Anemona table: a shaped hollow sculpture that draws the liquidity of the Adriatic Sea, together with the movements of the costumes of the ballets of Teatro alla Scala.
Zanellato/Bortotto sign the screen Mandala, it represents the travel of the young Venetian designers in the East. A triptych of metal rims mounted on a base of white Carrara marble. The object is the symbolic representation of the cosmos, as in the Hindu and Buddhist tradition.
Last but not least, Humberto and Fernando Campana, designers from Brazil, present an ultra pop object: the Bulb armchair. It is a gigantic envelope of yellow fabric, reminiscent of an Amazonian flower or a carnivorous plant in which you can feel protected by soft petals.
In the courtyard of the building you can find the "Temporary Paper Structure”, a modular structure in a temporary pavilion made by economic materials like cardboard or bamboo, by the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban.
written by Eleonora Moneta