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Above: The Estúdio Campana Cocoon Dichroic chair for Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades.
In a hidden room at the very back of a Milanese palazzo that can be entered only after one has passed several checkpoints, a glimmering orb is refracting shards of light onto the walls. Outside, on the street, a line stretches down the block. Here, inside the hushed enclave, behind a velvet rope, a small crowd of people gather, murmuring and jotting notes. But it’s not a piece of priceless high jewelry on display, it’s a one-of-a-kind iteration of Estúdio Campana’s iconic Cocoon chair, which was introduced in 2015 with Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades in fiberglass and leather. Now reappearing in a shaggy technicolor coat of reflective glass, and dramatically tethered to an overhead beam by a single nylon cord, this chair gently twists and turns as if to show itself off.
“It brings lightness in the spirit for dark times. An escape from reality,” says designer Humberto Campana, who founded his Brazilian design studio alongside his brother Fernando in the mid-1980s and has worked with Louis Vuitton for more than a decade, creating fantastical pieces. When the luxury house approached him to consider a collaboration with French artist Géraldine Gonzalez, he says he was thrilled. The resulting Cocoon Dichroic involved three months of handiwork from Gonzalez, who cut and shaped each of the “leaves” of iridescent dichroic glass. “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.” The result is the singular chair, offered at $167,000.
“My work is always about an invitation to travel to different worlds,” says the designer, whose focus these days is on growing the Instituto Campana, a São Paulo–based foundation he and his brother launched in 2009. “I need to focus on something that I believe in, in order to find a meaning for life,” Campana says. “My work is about this—a therapy. So I try to give back in another positive way, you know?”
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This story originally appeared in the Summer 2026 issue of Elle Decor. SUBSCRIBE