Louis Vuitton Rebuilds a Lost 1923 Pierre Legrain Armchair in Nomade Leather

Louis Vuitton has added a piece of design history to its Objets Nomades collection with the Kubic armchair, a remake of a 1923 design by French designer and bookbinder Pierre Legrain. First shown at Milan Design Week 2026 inside Palazzo Serbelloni, the chair has now travelled to the Hotel Particulier Louis Vuitton on rue de Martignac in Paris, where it remains on view through September 13 as part of Paris Design Week, as reported by Hypebeast.

The original chair has an unusual pedigree. Legrain designed it in 1923 for Jacques Doucet, the couturier and collector whose Paris apartment became a showcase for the most radical decorative art of the era. Legrain also has a direct line to Louis Vuitton itself: he designed the house's first ever furniture piece, the Louis Vuitton Dressing Table, decades before the brand built out a full home collection. That earlier connection is part of what makes the Kubic revival feel less like a licensing exercise and more like the house reaching into its own archive.

The new version keeps Legrain's trapezoidal backrest and faceted armrests intact, translating what was originally a Cubist inflected wooden frame into Nomade, the supple grained leather that has become one of Louis Vuitton's signature hides, paired with rosewood side legs. The result stays close to the hard, geometric lines of the 1923 original rather than softening them for a contemporary living room, with the leather's grain doing the work that carved wood detailing once did on the original piece.

The Kubic chair sits within a wider Pierre Legrain Homage Collection, one strand of Objets Nomades marking the centenary of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, the Paris fair that gave Art Deco its name. The same collection places Legrain's work alongside pieces referencing Charlotte Perriand and Fortunato Depero, while contemporary designers including Campana Estudio, Raw Edges, and Franck Genser continue to add new pieces to Objets Nomades each year. It follows the wider Louis Vuitton Home Collections range of furniture, lighting, and textiles that the house launched in 2025.

For a maison built on trunks and travel, restaging a century old Paris design object in Paris itself is a fairly pointed piece of storytelling, and the rue de Martignac townhouse gives the chair a domestic setting rather than a trade fair booth to be seen in. The Kubic armchair is not yet listed for retail sale, and further details are expected to follow through Louis Vuitton's own channels as the Objets Nomades line continues to expand.