Louis Vuitton Manufactures book

Louis Vuitton defends the idea that a workshop can be a place of fulfillment and individuality. A place where know-how can be learned, respected and transmitted - and innovation nourished - by artisans who regularly challenge the image of a traditional workshop. In pursuit of regional know-how and artisanal excellence, Louis Vuitton workshops extend throughout France and beyond, from Geneva (Switzerland), to Fiesso d'Artico (Italy) and even in Texas (United States). Sites of historical interest or exceptional natural beauty often have a Louis Vuitton workshop nearby: in Normandy, the maritime solidity of Mont-Saint-Michel can be seen from Ducey's workshop, and at Beaulieu-sur- Layon, the light-flooded installation promises a low environmental impact.

Features :

• Silk hardcover
• Dimensions: 24.3 x 33 x 4.5 cm
• 400 pages
• More than 350 illustrations
• English language
• 7.0 kg

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Featuring photographs commissioned exclusively for this book, the volume highlights the extraordinary locations and buildings of the Louis Vuitton workshops, as well as the equally extraordinary artisans who express their talent through Louis Vuitton creations (trunks, bags, perfumes, watches, shoes, fine jewelry and ready-to-wear). to- wear), while transporting the techniques and know-how of the founder into the 21st century. It is to these workshops and the inspiring people who work there that this book is dedicated.

Author, historian and journalist Nicholas Foulkes is editor of Vanity Fair , from the Financial Times How to Spend It And by The Rake Magazine , and editor-in-chief of the luxury magazine British GQ . Best known for his trilogy of 19th-century British stories, Last of the Dandies , Dancing into Battle And Gentlemen and Blackguards , he published around thirty works on history, arts and style. Among his recent works are a biography of the painter Bernard Buffet (Random House) and Time Tamed , a history of humanity's calibration of time from the Paleolithic to the moon landings (Simon & Schuster). His books for Assouline include Balls: Legendary costume balls of the twentieth century (2011); Swans: Legends of the Jet Society (2013); The Impossible Watch Collection (2014) and Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso (2020).