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Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion And Architecture in limited edition Takashi Murakami version.

“Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and Architecture offers, for the first time in the luxury brand’s history, a critical selection of the creative exchanges forged between Louis Vuitton and a growing number of designers from the worlds of art, architecture, design, photography and fashion. This richly illustrated anthology is supplemented by critical essays that analyse and shed new light on Louis Vuitton’s commitment during one of the most fertile periods of contemporary creation. Written by international critics from the world of art, fashion and architecture, this work, stretching over 400 pages and illustrated with 400 colour documents, will be released in three languages – French, English and Italian – and will be available in bookshops, published respectively by de La Martinière, Rizzoli NY and Rizzoli Italia.

A deluxe edition exclusively designed for Louis Vuitton by Takashi Murakami will be for sale in Louis Vuitton stores and on www.louisvuitton.com from September 1st 2009.”

LIMITED LOUIS VUITTON EDITION
Deluxe edition designed by Takashi Murakami:
Hardcover with a “LV with Hands” jacket and
a plexiglass slipcase engraved with Damier pattern.
On sale exclusively in Louis Vuitton’s stores
and on louisvuitton.com

Publication date: September 1st 2009
Price: US$130, 125€, £90, ¥17,000
Format: 24 x 31cm
3 leaflets 91/2″ x 121/4″
404 pages, 400 illustrations

BOOKSTORE EDITIONS
Rizzoli USA, English version
Editions de La Martinière, French version
Rizzoli Italia, Italian version
Available in bookstores

Via I Love LV.

Visuals from the Book


Maison Louis Vuitton, Champs-Elysées (2005): Women’s shoes department. Interior design by Peter Marino, enclosed by a stainless steel Monogram screen. © LOUIS VUITTON / STÉPHANE MURATET


Louis Vuitton Tribute to Stephen Sprouse held at various venues in New York City, January 8, 2009. Entrance of the Bowery Ballroom. © LOUIS VUITTON / JAMIE CABREZA


Study (2008) by Richard Prince; acrylic on treated canvas, 111x87 cm. Louis Vuitton Collection. COLLECTION LOUIS VUITTON 2008 © RICHARD PRINCE


Compression by Ron Arad (1987); in treated fabric, leather, brass and steel; 28 x 44 x 20 cm (11 x 17 x 7.8 inches). Louis Vuitton Collection. © LOUIS VUITTON / ANTOINE ROZES


Le Monogramme du peintre (The Painter’s Monogram) silk twill square (1988) by Arman (Armand Pierre Fernandez), 86.5 x 87 cm (34 x 34.25 inches). Louis Vuitton Collection. Photographed by Antoine JARRIER/COLLECTION LOUIS VUITTON © Arman


Stephen Bag by Louis Vuitton (2007), photograph by Jaime Chard for Surface magazine, of the impression left on plaster powder by what is actually an Adele bag, also from F/W 2006-07. Print, 30.5 x 40 cm (12 x 15.7 inches). Louis Vuitton Collection. © LOUIS VUITTON / JAIME CHARD


Eye see you by Olafur Eliasson (2006); stainless steel, aluminum, colored glass filters, lightbulb. This project was unveiled at the New York Global store, November 11th 2006, and later installed in each of the over 350 Louis Vuitton boutiques throughout the world. The work consists of a lamp in the shape of pupil, which emits a yellow luminescence. Courtesy Olafur Eliasson, photographed by LB Production


Keepall by Sylvie Fleury (2000); chrome-plated bronze, 32 x 46 x 20 cm (12.5 x 18 x 7.8 inches). The sculpture later became the basis for the Mirror Monogram series of city bags. Louis Vuitton Collection. Photographed by Elodie Gay © COLLECTION LOUIS VUITTON © SYLVIE FLEURY


Series 7™ swing seat prototype after Arne Jacobsen (2005), one-of-a-kind model created for Fritz Hansen™; auctioned for $18,000, with proceeds from the sale donated to the Danish AIDS Foundation. Louis Vuitton Collection. © LOUIS VUITTON / PHILIPPE JUMIN


Louis Vuitton Canton Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR by Kumiko Inui (2008). © LOUIS VUITTON / JIMMY COHRSSEN


Undertow silk square (1988) by Sol LeWitt, 88 x 87.5 cm (34.6 x 34.4 inches). Louis Vuitton Collection. Photographed by Antoine JARRIER / COLLECTION
LOUIS VUITTON © Sol LeWitt


The Earth is Round silk square (1988) by Sol LeWitt, 88 x 87.5 cm (34.6 x 34.4 inches). Louis Vuitton Collection. Photographed by Antoine JARRIER / COLLECTION
LOUIS VUITTON © Sol LeWitt


Hommage à Louis Vuitton by Miss.Tic (2001). Stencil on a series of numbered and unnumbered postcards given out during the Women's F/W 2001-02 show, March 12, 2001; 42 x 30 cm (16.5 x 12 inches). Louis Vuitton Collection. COLLECTION LOUIS VUITTON © Miss Tic


Hommage à Louis Vuitton by Miss.Tic (2001). Stencil on a series of numbered and unnumbered postcards given out during the Women's F/W 2001-02 show, March 12, 2001; 42 x 30 cm (16.5 x 12 inches). Louis Vuitton Collection. COLLECTION LOUIS VUITTON © Miss Tic


The World of Sphere (2003) by Takashi Murakami, Acrylic on canvas, mounted on board, 350 x 350 cm (137.8 x 137.8 inches). © 2003 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. © 2003 Takashi Murakami / Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.


Panda character on Monogram rigid case (2003) designed by Takashi Murakami. © Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. © 2003 Takashi Murakami / Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved


LV with Hands character on Monogram rigid case (2003) designed by Takashi Murakami. © Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.
All Rights Reserved. © 2003 Takashi Murakami / Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved


Molten bag (2008) by Fabrizio Plessi; Epi leather with an ultra-flat TFT-LCD screen. Limited to an edition of 88. Louis Vuitton Collection COLLECTION LOUIS VUITTON COLLECTION LOUIS VUITTON © FABRIZIO PLESSI


Il Lusso è lento (2008), video installation by Fabrizio Plessi, Louis Vuitton Canton Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR (2008); architecture by Kumiko Inui. © LOUIS VUITTON / JIMMY COHRSSEN


Model of a fiber carbon attaché case (1990), designed by Philippe Starck, 40 x 47 x 8 cm, (15.7 x 18.5 x 3 inches). A functional prototype with a green leather twill weave interior is part the Louis Vuitton Collection. COLLECTION LOUIS VUITTON © PHILIPPE STARCK


Image by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin of model in Monogram makeup, with Faux Cul bag created by Vivienne Westwood for the centennial of the Monogram canvas in 1996. © LOUIS VUITTON / INEZ VAN LAMSWEERDE/VINOODH MATADIN