Designed by Frank Gehry, this dazzling arts centre is to be found in the Bois de Boulogne on Paris’s west side. The iconic structure resembles a ship with billowing sails, what Gehry calls “from nautical to natural”.

Here’s what Mayer Rus wrote in Architectural Digest –

Commissioned by LVMH chief Bernard Arnault to design a signature arts center for the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, architect Frank Gehry conceives a radiant tour de force wrapped in swirling glass sails

An eye-popping center for contemporary art and culture, the project is the brainchild of Bernard Arnault, chairman and CEO of the French luxury-goods conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy–Louis Vuitton, and was brought to life by that most lyrical of architectural conjurers, Frank Gehry.  With its shiplike exterior of billowing glass sails, the 126,000-square-foot, 2.5-story building suggests an avant-garde update of the Jolly Roger, gracefully piloted by Peter Pan through the Bois’s verdant sea of centuries-old trees with a trail of pixie dust in its wake. Bewitching and majestic, the structure alights in the park with the delicacy of the Winged Victory perched at the head of the Daru staircase in the Louvre. Suffice it to say, it’s the kind of place that invites ecstatic odes and mixed metaphors.

” When kids come to the Foundation Louis Vuitton
I want them to elevate their imagination,
so they grow up thinking of architecture differently “
Frank Gehry

 

Had I not recently watched the excellent Netflix documentary film, “The Andy Warhol Diaries”, I might not have been interested in this exhibition. But now that I know about the struggles and successes of both Warhol and his talented younger friend, Jean-Michel Basquiat, I will go.

Here’s the link to a well-written review in The Guardian about the Warhol documentary, and below that, a link to the Louis Vuitton Foundation.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/mar/09/the-andy-warhol-diaries-documentary-netflix

https://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/en/events/basquiat-x-warhol-painting-4-hands