On this cold Sunday October the 16th, I went visiting the Louis Vuitton Ateliers in Asnieres. It took us 5 hours of queue before getting in; the nice thing was to make random friendship along the way!... It was a very long wait since it was the first time LV was opening to the public its family home, gardens and workshops.
An extract from the brochure: "Established in Paris in 1854, the Maison Louis Vuitton embodies the art of travel. Louis Vuitton, who had trained as a packing casemaker but rapidly became an official supplier to Empress Eugenie, moved his workshops to Asnieres in 1859. The town, which was just beginning to urbanize, offered a host of advantages: proximity to Paris, the ability to transport the wood required for manufacturing trunks via the Seine, and the peace and quiet needed for skilled craft work..."
I very much enjoyed the outside as well as the interior look of the house, all Art Nouveau & Nancy style. It was good to discover step by step the manufacturing process and quality of the leathers. There's 170 leatherworkers today. We really feel the passion and strong ethic from the Vuitton family and why a real Vuitton is so precious and unique. Thanks for letting the public seeing the inside world of LV!
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