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Louis Vuitton Manufactures

Louis Vuitton Manufactures

Culture / Fashion house - 1/26/22

On 1st February 2022, Assouline publishes “Louis Vuitton Manufactures,” an exclusive book showcasing the ateliers of Louis Vuitton and the artisans who create the Maison’s exceptional pieces.
Louis Vuitton fosters the idea that an atelier can be a place of fulfillment and individuality. A place where savoir-faire can be learned, respected, and transmitted - and innovation nurtured - by artisans who routinely challenge the image of a traditional workshop. In pursuit of regional expertise and artisanal excellence, Louis Vuitton’s ateliers span the length and breadth of France and beyond, from Geneva (Switzerland), to Fiesso d’Artico (Italy) and even
Texas (USA). Sites of historic interest or outstanding natural beauty will often have a Louis Vuitton workshop nearby: In Normandy, the sea-girt fastness of Mont Saint Michel can be seen from the workshop at Ducey, and in Beaulieu-sur-Layon, our light-flooded facility promises low environmental impact.
Featuring photographs commissioned exclusively for this book, the volume showcases the extraordinary locations and buildings of Louis Vuitton’s ateliers, and the equally extraordinary artisans who express their talent through Louis Vuitton’s creations (trunks, bags, fragrances, watches, shoes, high jewellery and ready-to-wear), while carrying the founder’s techniques and savoir-faire into the twenty-first century. It is to these ateliers and the inspiring people who work there that this book is dedicated.
Author, historian and journalist Nicholas Foulkes is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, Financial Times How to Spend It and The Rake Magazine, and luxury editor of British GQ. Best known for his trilogy of nineteenth-century British histories, Last of the Dandies, Dancing into Battle, and Gentlemen and Blackguards, he has published around thirty books on history, the arts and style. Among his recent works are a biography of the painter Bernard Buffet (Random House) and Time Tamed, a history of mankind’s calibration of time from the Palaeolithic era to the moon landings (Simon & Schuster). His books for Assouline include Bals: Legendary Costume Balls of the Twentieth Century (2011); Swans: Legends of the Jet Society (2013);
The Impossible Collection of Watches (2014) and Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso (2020).
Introduction by Nicholas Foulkes

Classic version : 10 x 13 in – 25 x 33 cm | 400 pages | over 350 illustrations |
ISBN: 9781649800763 | $95 – €95 – £70 | Available in French and English from
February 2022. This edition will also be available in Chinese, Korean and Japanese in bookstores from April 2022.

Large format collector’s edition: in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies presented
in a poplar wood presentation box | 40 cm x 48 cm x 8 cm | $1,900 ‒ €1 900 ‒ £1,390 |
Available in French exclusively in Louis Vuitton stores and in our website.


Designer: Louis Vuitton

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