Rimowa + Lehni luggage hub
Rimowa and Swiss design firm Lehni are presenting a luggage‑storage collaboration at the Rimowa Lehni Visitor Centre on Via Achille Maiocchi 10, with the installation open April 21–24 during Milan Design Week (wallpaper.com). The project frames luggage storage itself as a designed experience, with the centre doubling as a pop‑up presentation during the fair dates (wallpaper.com).
Rimowa is turning suitcase storage into a Milan Design Week installation with Swiss furniture maker Lehni. (wallpaper.com) The project opens April 21 through April 24 at the Rimowa Lehni Visitor Centre on Via Achille Maiocchi 10 in Milan. Rimowa said the space will operate as a temporary presentation during the fair. (wallpaper.com) The collaboration includes two aluminum pieces built around cabin luggage: the Rimowa Lehni Bench and the Rimowa Lehni Drawer. Wallpaper reported that the bench holds two suitcases side by side, while the drawer adds enclosed storage for smaller items. (wallpaper.com) Both pieces are hand-finished at Lehni’s factory in Zurich and made in anodized aluminum in black or silver, with felt-lined shelves to reduce scratching. Lehni said its furniture business has focused on Swiss-made aluminum for more than 100 years. (wallpaper.com) (lehni.ch) Lehni is best known for modular aluminum furniture, and Wallpaper said this is the first time the company has adapted that system specifically for suitcases. Rimowa, for its part, has built aluminum luggage for more than a century and has increasingly used stores and installations to present itself as a design brand as much as a travel brand. (wallpaper.com) The timing puts the launch inside Milan Design Week, the citywide festival that runs from April 20 to April 26 in 2026 and overlaps with the Salone del Mobile furniture fair. Designboom and Dezeen both describe the week as the year’s main global gathering for furniture, interiors, and installation launches. (designboom.com) (dezeen.com) Rimowa is also extending the presentation beyond the visitor centre. Architecture Update and Profiler reported that the brand’s newly renovated Milan flagship will carry a separate window installation by Studioutte tied to the launch. (architectureupdate.in) (profiler.world) Inside the visitor centre, the display adds a curated selection of books from Swiss publisher Innen Publishing and a postcard station for handwritten notes. Those details push the project closer to a hospitality space than a standard product showroom. (wallpaper.com) (profiler.world) The pitch is simple: if luggage now lives in apartments as often as in airports, brands can design the place where it waits. In Milan next week, Rimowa and Lehni are asking visitors to look at the storage rack with the same attention usually reserved for the suitcase. (wallpaper.com)
