All is vanity

Each month, we look at the story of a favourite piece - this issue, it's Giorgio Armani's incredible mother-of-pearl-clad Antoinette dressing table

- ELLEN FINCH

So captivating was Armani/ Casa's Antoinette vanity table when it was introduced into the fashion brand's home offering in 2007 that we hoped we'd see more iterations in time. Presented then as a singular cylindrical form clad in patinated linen and dark lacquered wood, it untuck to reveal a curved-back chair and a desk with a luxurious, iridescent acrylic interior. A backlit mirror folded upwards to complete the setup, transforming it from s