Furniture

Most fashion houses, when they enter a new category, announce themselves loudly. There is a press event, a celebrity ambassador, a dinner of 200, a press release that uses the words “vision” and “universe” with abandon. The point of the announcement is to be the announcement. Bottega Veneta did none of this. The house’s first home collection, Casa, opened in a single ground-floor space on Via San Maurilio during the final weekend of Milan Design Week, with no press event, no opening party, and no advance preview. The press materials arrived by post — physical, on heavy stock, no PDFs. This is, of course, its own kind of announcement. But the restraint is consistent with everything Bottega Veneta has done since Matthieu Blazy assumed creative direction in 2021, and the collection rewards close attention. ...

Cassina has been producing the LC series — the canonical Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, and Pierre Jeanneret pieces — since 1965. The LC2 armchair, the LC4 chaise, the LC6 table: these are the works that defined what mid-century modernism meant when translated into commercial production. Their continued availability is, in many ways, the bedrock of Cassina’s brand. Sixty-one years of uninterrupted manufacture have turned three architects’ tubular-steel experiments of the late 1920s into the closest thing modernism has to a vernacular. ...

Objets Nomades is the longest-running argument in fashion-into-design, and at fourteen years it has become the argument other houses are now answering. Since 2012, Louis Vuitton has invited architects and designers to make functional objects shaped by the house’s travel heritage — trunks, straps, hardware, the choreography of packing and unpacking — and shown them every April inside Palazzo Serbelloni, the eighteenth-century neoclassical pile on Corso Venezia 16. The 2026 edition does what every mature edition of Objets Nomades now does: it adds three serious new commissions, restages older pieces against the palazzo’s frescoed rooms, and quietly raises the bar for what a fashion house’s furniture programme is allowed to be. After this year’s Milan Design Week, it is no longer credible to file Objets Nomades alongside the licensed-extension category. It belongs with the design programmes that publishers like Cassina and Vitra have spent decades building — and it is starting to behave like one. ...