Think only humans get makeovers? Check out the Cocoon Dichroic, launched at Milan Design Week 2026, to see the ethereal evolution of a chair from Louis Vuitton’s Objets Nomades collection. It’s mad, it’s outlandish, it’s memorable, and it’s fabulous. If chairs were magically transformed into models, the Cocoon Chair would be a Victoria’s Secret Angel. French artist Géraldine Gonzalez has reimagined the work of the Campana brothers, who originally created the Cocoon Chair for Louis Vuitton’s Objets Nomades, the maison’s collectible design collection launched in 2012 to turn travel-inspired ideas into extraordinary furniture and design objects. The original chair, with its perforated outer shell, resembled an organic pod or an exotic flower bud about to bloom. This latest version carries the creative legacy of Fernando and Humberto Campana, the Brazilian design duo who made the Cocoon one of the collection’s most recognizable pieces.
In its latest iteration, the Cocoon becomes an iridescent armchair with a futuristic, almost otherworldly aura inspired by the shimmering glass façade of Maison Louis Vuitton Sanlitun in Beijing. The flagship itself uses layered glass surfaces that shift with light and movement, making this chair feel like a miniature furniture interpretation of the building’s architecture. The Cocoon Dichroic involved three months of painstaking handiwork from Gonzalez, who individually cut and shaped each of the iridescent dichroic-glass “leaves.” Dichroic glass changes color depending on the angle of light and the viewer’s position, creating the illusion that the chair is constantly transforming. “I love seeing the vision of another artist; it gives a new spirit to the object,” Campana says. “The possibility to work with new materials gives the possibility to create a new narrative.”
He also revealed that the sensation of feeling transported to another world was entirely intentional. “My work is always about an invitation to travel to different worlds,” said the designer. The result is a singular chair offered at $167,000. But to call it only a chair feels almost unfair. At this price point, the Cocoon Dichroic sits firmly in the realm of collectible design, occupying the same territory as limited-edition artworks rather than conventional furniture.
A chair, essentially a piece of furniture, is often imagined as a block of wood, heavy, fixed, and rigid. The Cocoon Dichroic is nothing like that. In fact, it’s fluid; as you move around it, the surface constantly morphs. It’s not brown, black, or boring, but instead shifts through iridescent hues ranging from icy turquoise and cosmic blues to deep magentas, golds, and warm corals. Interestingly, as feather-light as it appears, it combines an acrylic structure with high-tech dichroic film coatings and a traditional fiberglass-and-leather shell. The materials and construction lend it a remarkable sense of weightlessness, which is one of its key USPs.
