Louis Vuitton's Kubic Armchair Rebuilds a 1923 Pierre Legrain Design in Nomade Leather

The Art Deco centrepiece anchors an Objets Nomades exhibition running in Paris.

Summary

Louis Vuitton has added the Kubic armchair to its Pierre Legrain Homage Collection for Paris Design Week 2026

The chair reworks a historic model Legrain conceived in 1923 on commission from couturier and collector Jacques Doucet

Nomade leather covers the faceted armrests and trapezoidal backrest, set against rosewood side legs

Louis Vuitton has unveiled the Kubic armchair, the newest addition to its Pierre Legrain Homage Collection, at Paris Design Week 2026. The piece sits within the House’s Objets Nomades line and takes its shape from a model Legrain originally designed in 1923, translated now through Louis Vuitton’s own leatherworking and cabinet-making workshops.

Geometry does the talking. The Kubic is built on hard cubic lines, with a trapezoidal backrest and armrests broken into facets rather than rounded, a construction that reads as Art Deco and Cubist in equal measure. Those surfaces are wrapped in Nomade leather, the House’s signature hide, while rosewood forms the side legs and supplies the contrast in both material and tone. The two disciplines at work, leather covering and cabinet-making, are usually kept apart in furniture of this type, and the chair is effectively a demonstration of both running in the same object.

The reference point carries weight. Legrain conceived the original for Jacques Doucet in 1923, at a point when the decorator, illustrator, bookbinder and cabinet-maker was also working with Louis Vuitton. That relationship produced the House’s first furniture piece, the Louis Vuitton Dressing Table, which makes Legrain less an outside influence than a founding contributor to this side of the business.

The timing is deliberate too. The Homage Collection arrives during the centenary of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, the event that fixed Louis Vuitton’s position within Art Deco under Gaston-Louis Vuitton. The broader presentation, first shown at Palazzo Serbelloni during Milan Design Week 2026, sets the Kubic alongside archival work from Charlotte Perriand and Fortunato Depero plus newer pieces from Estudio Campana, Raw Edges and Franck Genser. It also follows the 2025 launch of the House’s Home Collections, which widened Objets Nomades into furniture, lighting, textiles and tableware.

The Kubic armchair is on view through September 13 at Hôtel Particulier Louis Vuitton on rue de Martignac, Paris, as part of the House’s Paris Design Week 2026 exhibition.