RIMOWA and Lehni Design the Most Exacting Place to Park a Cabin Case
The €3,200 Bench and Drawer solve a narrow domestic problem with Swiss precision: where aluminium luggage should live between journeys.
Quick answer
Lehni's Bench and Drawer are hand-finished Zurich-made aluminium furniture sized around RIMOWA Cabin cases. The €3,200 Bench holds two cases side by side; the €3,200 Drawer stacks luggage vertically and adds a closed compartment. Felt protects the contact shelves and Silver or Black anodising matches common cases. The collaboration is coherent furniture design, but only owners with several display-worthy Cabins and spare floor space can justify it.
Horizontal display or vertical storage
The Bench is the simpler composition: a low open frame that holds two Cabin cases side by side and leaves the top usable as a surface. The Drawer turns the same idea upright, stacking luggage within a more compact footprint and adding closed storage for smaller objects. Both treat the suitcase as something to display rather than hide in a wardrobe.
Specially developed felt covers the support shelves so aluminium cases do not grind directly against aluminium furniture. That detail reveals the project's seriousness. A generic rack can hold luggage, but the Lehni pieces control fit, contact and visual rhythm around RIMOWA's proportions.
- Bench: room for two Cabin cases side by side
- Drawer: vertical case storage plus one enclosed compartment
Lehni changes its system without disguising it
Lehni has made aluminium furniture in Switzerland since 1922. For this collaboration it altered its modular system for a suitcase-specific brief, then hand-finished the Silver and Black versions in Zurich. RIMOWA contributed Cabin dimensions and a material language; the products remain household furniture manufactured by Lehni, not luggage with an added shelf.
The Milan Design Week presentation at Via Achille Maiocchi 10 ran from 21 to 24 April 2026, with books selected by Innen Publishing and a postcard station. That temporary visitor centre gave the objects a calm domestic setting. It has ended; the furniture itself is the lasting release.
- Manufacture: hand-finished at Lehni's Zurich factory
- Milan launch presentation: 21–24 April 2026
Beautiful overkill, honestly executed
Both pieces launched at €3,200, the same price regardless of format or Silver/Black finish. At that level, the buyer is not paying for storage efficiency. The value lies in precise fabrication, limited production and a room-scale continuation of the aluminium objects already owned.
Our verdict: the collaboration is conceptually clean and unusually useful by collectible-design standards. The Bench is the better piece if two cases deserve display and the top surface will be used; the Drawer earns its place in a smaller room. Everyone else should store luggage in a cupboard and spend the difference on travel.
- Best design: Bench for two-case owners who will use the top surface
- Best financial advice: conventional storage solves the same problem for far less
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