Louis Vuitton & Pierre Paulin: Invitation to play with Shapes

A series of Pierre Paulin’s sketches, as well as “La Maquette,” a project mockup now owned by the Center Pompidou, propose a six-level modular personal living space with moveable functional furniture. For “Playing With Shapes,” Louis Vuitton is recreating the entire six-story maquette in Miami Design District’s Aranda/Lasch building— along with 18 pieces of furniture from Paulin’s original home design—for the first time. Paulin is best known for his innovative rounded chairs that follow the form of the human body, and furniture highlights in the exhibition include a carpet seat and recliner that can be moved around as desired.

Conceived as an “intimate safe house” in response to an ever-changing technological world, the flexibility of Paulin’s modular unit home invites inhabitants to playfully create their own comfortable arrangement within this revolutionary refuge.

This article was previously published in Whitewaller.