Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades Collection Adds First Piece From American Designer

Three years ago, the San Francisco-based artist and designer Andrew Kudless was in Miami for an installation he had done for Perrier-Jouët, which was conveniently stationed a hundred or so feet away from the Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades set up. During the Design Miami fair he found himself repeatedly wandering over to check out the Tokujin Yoshioka-designed Blossom stool and Campana Brothers hanging fur cocoon, 2016’s collection additions, and eventually struck up a conversation with the Louis Vuitton team. “I didn’t know if anything would come from it, and then about six months ago, maybe nine months ago, [they] contacted me,” Kudless says, on the phone from California ahead of his journey down to Miami. “They were interested in having some proposals from me for the collection and it just kind of went on from there.” This week at Design Miami and in the brand’s Design District store, Kudless will debut “Swell Wave,” a set of three shelves he has designed for the Objets Nomades collection. He is the first American designer within the collection. “As you might guess from Louis Vuitton, they have a very strong aesthetic and very strong idea about what they want in the collection,” Kudless says. “In some

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