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REF. TA-LOU-0011| Publisher | Louis Vuitton Malletier |
| Title | Louis Vuitton City Guide: Paris |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | I |
| Illustrator | Rubén Toledo |
| Language | English |
| Provenance | Private Collection |
| Condition | Very good, never used |
Paris in 2003, seen through Louis Vuitton's City Guide and drawn by Rubén Toledo: a portrait of the city at the turn of the millennium.
This is the 2003 Louis Vuitton City Guide to Paris, Volume I, published by Louis Vuitton Malletier in English and illustrated by Rubén Toledo. It covers the city's cultural institutions, architecture, restaurants, hotels, boutiques and neighbourhoods.
Paris at the turn of the millennium.
Louis Vuitton began as a trunk maker in Paris in 1854, and travel has remained central to the house. In 1998 it extended that idea to the page with its City Guides, written by independent journalists and authors rather than by the house itself.
The illustrations are by Rubén Toledo, the New York-based artist and fashion illustrator, whose drawings give the guide a personal, graphic character beyond that of an ordinary travel book.
Many of the addresses recorded in 2003 have since changed or closed. Read today, the guide shows how Paris looked and lived at the beginning of the twenty-first century, as an international reference for fashion, luxury and the arts.
A record of addresses, many now gone.
Early editions of the Louis Vuitton City Guides are collected as fashion and travel ephemera, and they are useful to writers, stylists and set designers researching the 2000s.
Louis Vuitton publications are collected alongside fashion books and travel ephemera.
Guides were used and replaced by newer editions, so early copies are fewer.
Interest in the style and culture of the early 2000s continues to grow.
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