Louis Vuitton: The Birth of Mo...
This eight-and-a-half- pound book (it's oversize: 9.5x12.5") brings the company's 150-year history, beginning with a biography of Louis Vuitton (1821-1892), who founded the company and invented the modern travel trunk, and then tracing the interplay of business, family, and passion for design and luxury through the decades and across endeavors in fashion, architecture, art, and automobile design. As befits the subject matter, the presentation is lavish, including some 700 color illustrations—archival art, historical images, product designs and sketches, and advertisements. A must for LV lovers!!