Designer Louis Vuitton is set to (finally!) open up a new museum outside Paris in the northern part of the Bois de Boulogne on October 27. The Louis Vuitton Foundation, designed by Canadian architect Frank Gherry, contains 11 galleries for corporate art collections, as well as an auditorium for performances and special planned events. Gherry designed the building to resemble a glass cloud amidst the leafy Parisian landscape.
The museum’s first exhibition is to showcase Gherry’s architectural achievements and contributions to the project. For the first three days after the museum’s opening, the public can walk the 126,000 square foot structure for free.
The $136 million museum, which celebrates the luxury brands “extraordinary economic success,” was also built to “encourage and promote contemporary artistic creation both in France and internationally,” focusing especially on 20th and 21st century artists, LVMH Ceo, Berard Arnault told Women’s Wear Daily.
Arnaults advisor and overseer of LVMH’s philanthropic activities, Jean-Paul Claverie said the Foundation is “the most important new art institution to arrive in Paris since 2006 when the Quai Branly Museum of indigenous art and civilizations opened in a curving Jean Nouvel building near the Eiffel Tower,” according to WWD.
