Louis Vuitton: The Art of Architecture

has long been a patron of architecture, particularly in Japan, is changing the way luxury boutiques are considered. Back in 1999 commissioned the Japanese avant-garde architect Jun Aoki to his shop in Nagoya, Japan, to design the third largest city. What Louis Vuitton wanted was exposed to a building - and he got it. The simple geometric shape of the building is covered with a shimmering facade, inspired by both Japanese art and iconography Vuitton. In 2002, Aoki has further the Louis Vuitton store in Omotesando, Tokyo's most exclusive shopping street design. The result looked like a pile of logs stacked at random, connected by short courses. Shop Vuitton has inspired others to follow big names of designers, this example and today is known as Omotesando showcase of modern architecture. Then came the Louis Vuitton store in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Aoki has a bar where guests can sit on chairs stacked vertically and order bag, as if they were buying the drinks created. Perhaps the most spectacular Vuitton store in the world, opened last year on his private island resort in Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, Boston architect Moshe Safdie. Safdie, who is famous for the 67 apartments from apartments in Montreal - one of the great milestones in the architecture of the 20th Has created what is called a cross between a museum and a cruise liner - the century. The interiors come courtesy of Peter Marino, the flagship London store and the beautiful Las Vegas, the largest in North America, housed in a building designed by Daniel Libeskind. Marino describes his design philosophy in the simplest terms: "I just want a place where I feel good, a good place to be, would be somewhere my wife to buy a handbag and then not in the process of his death, the Hell escape. "