LOUIS VUITTON, 100 MALLES DE LEGENDE Pierre Léonforté, Éric Pujalet-Plaà, Patrick-Louis Vuitton
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This luxurious book, presented in a slipcase, brings together around a hundred exceptional pieces and places them in their own time, with contextual iconography that is often previously unpublished.
A must-have reference book for all lovers of Louis Vuitton, luxury and travel.
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496 pages
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Show me your luggage and I’ll tell you who you are.
“This 1921 advert aptly evokes the intimate relationship that all travelers have with their trunks and luggage, companions on the road and on their journeys. From legendary trains to transatlantic liners, from automobiles to the first aircraft, Louis Vuitton trunks have crossed time and borders. As early as 1854, Louis Vuitton, “layetier, malletier et emballeur”, proposed modern trunks combining pragmatism and elegance, perfectly adapted to new means of transport and the changes in life they brought with them.
Since then, Louis Vuitton has equipped explorers and adventurers as well as the great and the good of this world, princes, dandies, elegant ladies, artists and anonymous people of all kinds. The Maharaja of Baroda, Savorgnan de Brazza, Douglas Fairbanks, Ernest Hemingway, Jeanne Lanvin, Damien Hirst and Sharon Stone have all traveled with Louis Vuitton. This exceptional book, with a preface by Patrick-Louis Vuitton, brings together the House’s finest creations through more than 800 documents.
Sleeping trunks, wardrobe trunks, tea-cases, toiletries, circus trunks, library trunks and caviar boxes are just some of the incredible pieces that reveal the exciting adventures of their owners. A complete technical inventory, a craftsman’s bible, also reveals all the secrets behind the making of a Louis Vuitton trunk. This compendium reveals that, from the very first curved trunks to the latest trunks designed today in the Asnières workshops, the spirit of the House is still driven by the same desire: to perpetuate the excellence of know-how and make the art of travel a true art of living.
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Patrick-Louis Vuitton, the fifth generation of the Vuitton name and a direct descendant of Louis, joined the Asnières workshop in 1973 as a simple carpentry worker. Heir to a certain family tradition and guarantor of the House’s savoir-faire, he managed the Asnières workshop for ten years. Today, he is responsible for special orders and public relations at Louis Vuitton.
Pierre Léonforte divides his time between Paris and Milan. He is a regular contributor to the magazines AD, Maison française, Marie-Claire Maison, the supplement La Tribune & Moi of the daily newspaper La Tribune, and, in Italy, to the magazines Interni and Case da Abitare. Pierre Léonforte has been editor-in-chief of Louis Vuitton City Guides since 1999, and has published numerous travel guides in France and Germany. He is the author of Paris des hommes, published by Minerva in 2006, and Philippe Hurel, so Français! in 2009, published by Aubanel.
Eric Pujalet-Plaà was born in 1968 in Rueil-Malmaison. With a degree in Conservation-Restoration of Cultural Property from the Sorbonne University, he joined the Textile Conservation Center in London in 1995, then became head of restoration at the Musée de l’Impression sur Étoffes in Mulhouse in 1996. A resident of the Académie de France in Rome from 1997 to 1999, he has been assistant curator of the fashion and accessories collections at the Arts Décoratifs in Paris since 2001. He helped write the catalogs Sixties mode d’emploi (2002) and Luxe et Fantaisie (2003) and contributed to several exhibitions, notably L’Homme paré (2005) and Madeleine Vionnet, puriste de la mode (2009).
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