Louis Vuitton City Guides- 01.27.08
Louis Vuitton puts out an annual set of City Guides, this year it is saffron yellow - a rigid box set containing 9 soft back booklets printed on bible paper… they have been doing it since 1998, and somehow i have yet to actually flip through some! So after much unfruitful internet hunting, i’m turning to you, readers, to see if anyone has a set, and what you think of them… are they better than wallpaper guides? Are the illustrations by Ruber Toledo enough to justify the near 100$ price tag for the set? Closest i’ve found to images of the interior is a tiny picture on a japanese website (see after the jump!)… Thanks! [To find it on the Louis Vuitton site, just search for city guide when in the store.]
The description on the Louis Vuitton site -
- Saffron yellow, rigid box set containing 9 soft back booklets printed on bible paper
- 7500 addresses
- Description of 30 European towns
Booklet I : Paris
Booklet II : Marseille - Nice - Strasbourg
Booklet III : London - Dublin
Booklet IV : Amsterdam - Brussels - Luxembourg
Booklet V : Copenhagen - Helsinki - Reykjavik - Stockholm
Booklet VI : Berlin - Munich - Vienna - Geneva
Bookley VII : Rome - Milan - Turin - Venice
Booklet VIII : Madrid - Barcelona - Bilbao - Lisbon
Booklet IX : Moscow - Saint Petersburg - Athens - Istanbul - Nicosia
- Text written by 25 well-known journalists and writers
- Illustrations by the artist, Ruber Toledo
Pictures i could find online… from forbes and this japanese site that i can’t read…
Ooooooh reader Cynthia Drescher was kind enough to scan and email in some pics from an older issue (Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Stockholm) that she scored at a rummage sale last year! THANK YOU!
Hmm, they may be pretty and quirky, but I can already tell some of the info is outdated! Cafe ‘Amokka’ is now ‘Dag H’, and not nearly as good as it used to be. If you ever need up-to-date info on Copenhagen, drop me a line. Blog for that exact purpose in the making!
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