Longchamp has been bringing objects into the world since long before bags made it famous. Every year at Milan Design Week, the Parisian Maison uses the Salone as a space to think about craft differently, commissioning designers to reinterpret its leather codes into furniture, lighting, and objects for the home. This year, the Maison turned to Patrick Jouin: a designer whose work lives in the permanent collections of MoMA and the Centre Pompidou, who trained under Philippe Starck, built his reputation designing restaurants for Alain Ducasse, and has spent decades exploring the point where industrial precision meets everyday beauty.
At Longchamp's flagship on Via della Spiga, the two sat down together around leather, steel, enamel, and French oak. The result is a collection rooted in the DNA of Le Pliage, the Maison's best-selling line since 1993, and unlike anything shown here before. Furniture, lighting, and objects that speak Longchamp's visual language while pushing its craft into entirely new territory.
Steel, Enamel, and Signature Green
Patrick Jouin brought his savoir-faire to two pieces of furniture for Longchamp. The DROP tables infuse turned steel with hand-poured enamels. Their surfaces layer Light Green and Heritage Green, the two shades embodying the Maison's visual identity, in washes reminiscent of watercolor. Painterly, yet grounded. The OLO armchair completes the picture, its leather upholstery finished with Light Green edges, a quiet nod to the collection's color story.
The Lamp Reimagines Le Pliage
The standout piece of the collaboration is a lamp. Cone-shaped, crafted from natural full-grain leather, and built on a French oak base, it carries the iconic snap buttons of Le Pliage, Longchamp's best-selling line since 1993, reinterpreted into an object that feels completely of its own. The leather is worked using a micro-perforation technique that allows light to filter through the surface. Rechargeable and LED-equipped, it is produced in a limited edition of just 10 numbered pieces.
