Paris · Bois de Boulogne
Fondation Louis Vuitton
Twelve glass sails by Frank Gehry in a park, holding one of the most ambitious private programmes in Europe
The roof terraces, where the sails frame the city in fragments
Bernard Arnault commissioned Gehry to build a private museum in the Bois de Boulogne and got twelve glass sails over eleven galleries, finished in 2014. The building divides opinion and wins most arguments on the roof, where a sequence of terraces uses the glass to cut the skyline into pieces.
The exhibition programme buys what public museums cannot: single-collection loans at a scale that produces genuinely once-only shows, usually two or three a year, each of them queued for.
The detail
Good to know
- Opened
- 2014, architect Frank Gehry
- Galleries
- Eleven, across four levels
- Getting there
- Shuttle from the Arc de Triomphe, included
- Programme
- Two to three major exhibitions a year
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