Thursday, 25 August 2011

Louis Vuitton: Architecture and Interiors

Louis Vuitton: Architecture and Interiors provides a complete guide to Louis Vuitton’s retail spaces, designed by renowned architects such as Shigeru Ban, Zaha Hadid and Kengo Kuma. The book will include information about all the brand’s retail spaces, over 300 illustrations and unpublished sketches, as well as interviews with designers Peter Marino, Christian de Portzamparc and Jun Aoki.



The book will be published in two editions; a standard edition and a limited edition set that has three versions where images of the New York Fifth Avenue store, the Tokyo Namikidori store and the Hong Kong Landmark store are used as covers and combined with three different monogram slipcases. The book will be released on 1st October - in French and English - with the limited edition sets available only in Louis Vuitton stores and at louisvuitton.com.

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