City Book Paris

Nearly 30 years ago, Louis Vuitton created an urban guidebook in keeping with its standards of excellence: the Paris City Guide, which has since become the reference that we know today. This year, Paris, once again elected to host the Olympic Games, is on the move, opening up, outdoing and reinventing itself a bit more each day. As the city blossoms, the House, always in step with the latest developments, is also broadening its horizons with the release of the Paris City Book, a special luxury edition of the City Guide. This large-format book pulses with the lifeblood of Paris, from its lavish and mysterious facades to its renowned tourist sites, without neglecting the twists and turns of its history, its promising youth, its many nuanced moods. Adopting the City Guide’s characteristic chapter organization, this version is conceived to last over the years, with an updated and expanded address book and pages enlivened with color photographs and drawings. In addition to the meticulous, cutting-edge curation of the addresses, a hallmark of Louis Vuitton’s publications, the book is enriched with new and original sections devoted to Paris’s architectural history, gardens and water facilities; with new plunges into tales of the city writ large and small; and with carte blanche contributions by guest artists, photographers and creators of contemporary comics. A fascinating, sweeping perspective on the city that makes this book a lively, engaging, richly abundant creation, reflecting the soul of Paris today.

Product Details

• 22 x 33 cm / 8.6 x 12.9 inches
• Paris City Book
• 416 pages
• Editorial director: Aude Walker
• Preface: Arthur Teboul, poet and singer-songwriter of the French pop-rock band Feu! Chatterton
• Writers: Marie-Hélène Brunet-Lhoste, Nina Boutléroff, Marie-Anne Bruschi, Anne-Lise Carlo, Jean Desportes, Stéphane Durand, Raphaëlle Elkrief, Pierre Groppo, Françoise Ha Vinh, Marie Kock, Katia Kulawick-Assante, Pierre Leonforte, Laurence Marot, Mathieu Le Maux, Céline Perruche, Théo Ribeton, François Simon, Isabelle Valembras Dahirel, Aude Walker, Ezechiel Zerah
• Exclusive photography by the Tendance Floue collective (Grégoire Eloy, Patrick Tourneboeuf, Gilles Coulon), Fisheye (Carolina Arantes, Léo-Paul Ridet, Manolo Mylonas, Philippe Servent), Terri Weifenbach, Yves Marchand, Romain Meffre
• Illustrations by Rosie Barker, Jisu Choi, Golden Cosmos, Jérôme Mulot, Yukiko Noritake, Oyow, Nicolas Ridou, Cristina Spanó, Eleanor Taylor, Tomi Um, Pieter Van Eenoge, Aart-Jan Venema
• English version