A nova colecção dos célebres Louis Vuitton City Guides está disponível a partir de 15 de Outubro, tratando desta vez cidades nunca antes incluídas. Berlim, Kyoto e Nara são tratadas pela primeira vez em volumes separados, tal como acontece com Londres, Los Angeles, Paris, Roma, Nova Iorque e Tóquio.
Entretanto, a caixa European City acrescenta sete novos destinos ao seu mapa: Beirute, Courchevel, Gstaad, Oxford, Palma, Porto Cervo e Thessaloniki.
Nova IorqueThe Louis Vuitton City Guide explores and reveals every facet of this effervescent metropolis through some 600 fabulous addresses: grand hotels, stylish bars, world-class restaurants, intimate diners, glamorous nightclubs, fashion and design stores, innovative art galleries, and more. The selection has been thoroughly updated for the sixth edition of this unique guide, which dives straight to New York’s vibrant heart, highlighting the city’s extraordinary vitality.
TóquioIn its second edition, the Louis Vuitton City Guide revisits every facet of the vibrant Japanese capital through 600 addresses chosen with flair and discernment: luxury hotels and ryokan, chic cafés and tea houses, world-class restaurants and gourmet hideaways, even secret gardens. The very best of fashion, the arts, design, architecture, music, nightlife and the underground scene are also highlighted, along with fascinating out-of-town trips. This year the Tokyo City Guide 2011 is personnalized by exclusive mangas of the japanese artist Jirô Taniguchi. This unique guide also includes easy-to-use maps of Tokyo.
ParisThe Louis Vuitton City Guide explores and reveals the French capital down to the smallest detail through some 600 addresses, selected with flair and discernment. Entirely updated, this new edition revisits luxury hotels and charming guesthouses, restaurants with virtuoso young chefs and local cafés, fashion maestros and design trailblazers, distinguished galleries and secret museums, all probed with a fresh, iconoclastic eye. Including easy-to-use maps, this City Guide unlocks the city’s dazzling treasures for curious travellers and seasoned insiders alike.
Kyoto / NaraFor this debut edition, available in French, English and Japanese, the Louis Vuitton City Guide visits the cultural gems of Kyoto and Nara through 600 hand-picked addresses. Luxury hotels and ryokan, authentic inns, tearooms and tea houses, superb culinary treats, exquisite ryotei and gourmet restaurants, temples and shrines, period villas and secret zen gardens are all explored. Highlights of the nightlife, fashion, art and design scenes are also featured. As well as easy-to-use city maps, this unique guide also offers fabulous getaways in the Kyoto and Nara area.
BerlimFor the first time, the Louis Vuitton City Guide is devoting a separate edition to Berlin, available in French, English and German. The contents of this new guide explore and reveal every facet of the German capital through more than 500 addresses picked with flair, humour and discernment. Guest houses steeped in nostalgia, little-known vegetarian restaurants, restored brasseries, quirky designers, cuttingedge fashion, hip night spots, revamped museums, and art galleries in constant flux paint the portrait of a fascinating city. Equipped with easy-to-use maps,
the guide unlocks the city’s treasures for seasoned travellers and curious insiders alike.
As adventure can be found on any street corner in any city – whether a financial capital or a culturally rich town – Louis Vuitton has, over the past ten years, shared its passion for travel and city life in the pages of its City Guide series. The Louis Vuitton City Guide draws upon the talents of a team of journalists and writers, who provide an attentive, informed commentary on the changes shaking the heart of cities and offer objective views on fashion, design, the arts and gastronomy.
Highlighting the latest trends and offering unique advice, the regularly updated contents of each guide are aimed at laid-back travellers, business travellers and the residents themselves of the cities being explored.
The collection of Louis Vuitton City Guides provides the traveller with an original view of the 50 cities and 10,000 addresses, combining traditional and new values, traditional and extravagant locations whether known, unknown or out of the ordinary, as long as they best express the essence of each city.
Luxury hotels and charming guesthouses; gourmet restaurants and local bistros; street markets and fine food stores; antiquarians and designers; museums and fashion stores, essential or secret monuments… The Louis Vuitton City Guides offer the traveller an insider’s guide into these cities.
For each city, a distinguished figure, whether famous or unexpected, agrees to reveal their best off-the-beaten-track addresses. To mention just a few: the singer Dani in Paris, the producer Judy Cramer in London, the successful author Alexander Mc Call Smith in Edinburgh, the pianist
Boris Berezovsky in Moscow, the famous singer Bette Midler in New York or the high priest of Kyoto’s most important temple, Sosho Yamada.
Practical and unique, each City Guide includes one or more soft-back booklets that you can take with you wherever you go, moving from city to city as the mood takes you.
Contemporary luxury hotels, charming guesthouses, distinguished restaurants, chefs’ bistros, artists’ cafés, wine bars, chocolate shops, delicatessens, art and design galleries, museums, spas, fashion stores, and more. In its steadfast pursuit of originality, the Louis Vuitton City Guide combines the tried and tested with the new, traditional locations with extravagant ones, the known with the unknown.
Enriched and brought bang up-to-date, unearthing the addresses that will become tomorrow’s must-see destinations, the 2011 vintage explores 30 exceptional cities through some 7,000 addresses chosen with flair and distinction. Featuring simple and practical maps, it revisits the major capitals – Berlin, Athens, London, Moscow, Rome and Paris – and touches down for the first time in highly unexpected cities such as Beirut, Courchevel, Gstaad, Oxford, Palma, Porto Cervo and Thessaloniki. A unique trend finder and setter, since 1998 the Louis Vuitton City Guide to European Cities has been an essential vade mecum for the urban explorer.
New cities are enriching the Louis Vuitton City Guides collection and will be on sale as of 15 October 2010 in Louis Vuitton stores, on louisvuitton.com and in a selection of bookshops.
EUROPEAN CITIES
30 European cities.
7 new cities: Beirut, Courchevel, Gstaad, Oxford, Palma,
Porto Cervo and Thessaloniki.
2,000 pages.
7,000 addresses, a third of which are new, classified by heading.
9 soft-back guides in a box, with one dedicated entirely to Paris.
Format: 12 x 21 cm x 9 cm.
Colour: Delft Blue
Illustrations by Ruben Toledo.
Retail price: 100 euros.
Published on 15 October 2010
List of 30 cities:
Booklet I: Paris
Booklet II: Courchevel – Nice – Strasbourg
Booklet III: Edinburgh – London – Oxford
Booklet IV: Amsterdam – Brussels – Geneva – Gstaad – Zurich
Booklet V: Berlin – Cologne – Vienna
Booklet VI: Milan – Porto Cervo – Rome – Venice
Booklet VII: Madrid – Palma – Lisbon
Booklet VIII: Budapest – Copenhagen – Prague – Moscow
Booklet IX: Athens – Thessaloniki – Istanbul – Beirut
ISBN French version: 978-2-917781-26-5
ISBN English version: 978-2-917781-27-2
CITY GUIDE POSTCARD BOX
100 POSTCARDS,
100 WORLD CITIES
BY RUBEN TOLEDO
Louis Vuitton is honouring Ruben Toledo’s work with the release of a collector’s set of 100 postcards in fluorescent colours, a real retrospective of the illustrations created for the Louis Vuitton City Guide since 1998.
Ruben Toledo was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1961 and is a painter, sculptor, illustrator and fashion chronicler in one. He lives in New York with his wife and creative alter ego, fashion designer Isabel Toledo. His work has been exhibited throughout the world, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
The Postcard Box celebrates the 100 illustrations Toledo has created for the Louis Vuitton City Guides, images that capture in paint the guides’ distinct vision of travel and passion for detail. “My aim is to paint a portrait of a city and to draw out its special and eternal essence; to capture the unique tempo and character of each.”
Paying tribute to Louis Vuitton, his travel companion of over ten years, Toledo adds, “this special edition of postcards is a treasure box of memories for me”.
Fotos © LOUIS VUITTON / PHILIPPE JUMIN
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