Abstract. Given a decomposition of a vector space V = V 1 ⊕ V 2 , the direct product X of the projective space P(V 1 ) with a Grassmann variety Gr k (V ) can be viewed as a double flag variety for the symmetric pair (G, K) = (GL(V ), GL(V 1 ) × GL(V 2 )). Relying on the conormal variety for the action of K on X, we show a geometric correspondence between the K-orbits of X and the K-orbits of some appropriate exotic nilpotent cone. We also give a combinatorial interpretation of this correspondence in some special cases. Our construction is inspired by a classical result of Steinberg (1976) and by the recent work of Henderson and Trapa (2012) for the symmetric pair (GL(V ), Sp(V )).