Milan Design Week: LV, Hermès, Dior lead

Milan Design Week closed on April 26 with Louis Vuitton, Hermès and Dior treating Salone del Mobile as a showroom for whole lifestyles, not just furniture. (salonemilano.it) (gulfnews.com) The 64th edition of Salone del Mobile ran April 21-26 at Rho Fiera in Milan, with more than 1,900 exhibitors from 32 countries. Fashion brands spread beyond the fairgrounds into palazzos, courtyards and showrooms across the city. (salonemilano.it) (mojeh.com) Louis Vuitton used Palazzo Serbelloni to present Objets Nomades as a tribute to Pierre Legrain, the Art Deco designer behind the house’s first furniture piece. The centerpiece was a new edition of the Celeste dressing table, originally commissioned in 1921. (louisvuitton.com 1) (louisvuitton.com 2) Hermès returned to La Pelota with a home installation conceived by Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry. Coverage of the presentation described a maze of 30 wood-clad columns framing new furniture, textiles and decorative objects. (elle.com.sg) (wallpaper.com) Dior Maison used Palazzo Landriani to show new Corolle lamps by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, extending a collaboration the brand says began in 2019. Dior tied the lamp silhouettes to the Corolle line from Christian Dior’s 1947 New Look. (dior.com) (mojeh.com) The clearest craft flex came from Loro Piana, which built an installation around the plaid as an object of study at its Milan headquarters. Gulf News reported that one Sherazade Notte plaid, made with cashmere velour, three layers of hand-trimmed cashmere appliqué and glass beads, took 1,850 hours to complete. (loropiana.com) (gulfnews.com) That mix of product and staging ran through the week’s wider fashion presence. Wallpaper* said brands leaned into immersive activations over straightforward collaborations, while MOJEH described fashion’s 2026 presence as unusually forceful across Milan. (wallpaper.com) (mojeh.com) The result was a design week where a 1921 dressing table, a maze of timber columns and a lamp derived from a 1947 skirt line all served the same purpose: selling heritage through objects for the home. (louisvuitton.com) (dior.com) (elle.com.sg)