Louis vuitton building frank gehry biography
Louis vuitton building frank gehry biography
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Louis Vuitton Foundation
Art museum and cultural centre in Paris
The Louis Vuitton Foundation (French: Fondation d'entreprise Louis-Vuitton), previously Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation (Fondation Louis-Vuitton pour la création), is a French art museum and cultural center sponsored by the group LVMH and its subsidiaries.
It is run as a legally separate, nonprofit entity as part of LVMH's promotion of art and culture.[2] The art museum opened on October 20, 2014, in the presence of President François Hollande. The Deconstructivist building was designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, with groundwork starting in 2006.
It is adjacent to the Jardin d'Acclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, bordering on Neuilly-sur-Seine.[3] More than 1.4 million people visited the Louis Vuitton Foundation in 2017.[4]
The actual cost of the museum, initially projected to be €100 million, was revealed in 2017 to