Beautifully crafted travel objects – Louis Vuitton x Nomades

Louis Vuitton enriches its collection with 10 new items Objets Nomades that will be presented during Salone del Mobile in Milan from April 4th to 9th 2017.

Created in 2012, the Objets Nomades collection keeps alive Louis Vuitton’s long
tradition of beautifully crafted travel objects. Some of the world’s most renowned
designers have since imagined stunning travel-inspired Objets, which have then been
made by Louis Vuitton. This year, two new designers have joined the collection:
India Mahdavi and Tokujin Yoshioka.

The limited editions and experimental prototypes that make up the Objets Nomades
collection all pay homage to the House’s special orders of the past – such as the iconic
Bed Trunk produced in 1874 for French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza – and
add the defiantly contemporary visions of creative designers from around the world:
Atelier Oï, Maarten Baas, Barber and Osgerby, the Campana Brothers,
Damien Langlois-Meurinne, Nendo, Gwenaël Nicolas, Raw Edges, Patricia Urquiola,
Marcel Wanders, and, most recently, India Mahdavi and Tokujin Yoshioka.

Today, there are 25 Objets Nomades, from a hammock to a deckchair, a swing
chair to a foldable stool. Each project has been an opportunity for the designers
and Louis Vuitton’s creative artisans to combine their savoir-faire to interpret the idea
of travel in their own imaginative ways. Each Objet embodies their shared ideals:
a love of the beauty of fine materials, the possibility of forms and carefully balanced
proportions, complex and meticulous craftsmanship, and close attention to detail.

These values are clearly present in the 10 Objets Nomades recently added to
the collection, such as the Campana Brothers’ playful sofa, inspired by clouds and
the shell Botticelli painted for Venus; Atelier Oï’s stunning chair, with its repurposed
straps resembling leather belts; Marcel Wanders’ modern, richly malletage-leather
rocking chair; and India Mahdavi’s talisman-inspired nomade side table with its
remarkable leather marquetry.

Over 160 years after Louis Vuitton began exploring new territories and ideas of travel,
the Objets Nomades collection can be seen as proof that the House has lost none
of its sense of adventure.




 
Credit: Louis Vuitton