[Louis Vuitton] Booth at Art Basel Hong Kong Pays Tribute to Frank Gehry

At Art Basel Hong Kong 2026, Louis Vuitton will present a booth reflecting on the Maison's past collaborations with Frank Gehry, celebrating over 20 years of partnership. From bold architectural projects to limited edition bags, fragrance bottles, and timepieces, Gehry's creations demonstrate a unique vision of timeless innovation and savoir-faire.

Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry has earned international acclaim for a career that embodies exceptional craftsmanship in design. At this booth, for which Louis Vuitton is the show partner of Art Basel Hong Kong, his iconic architecture, the "Louis Vuitton × Frank Gehry" bag collection, and other collaborations with the Maison will be presented chronologically across eight chapters. The exhibition offers an intimate experience of Frank Gehry's creative process through models and artworks. His exceptional legacy lives on in his work. As Gehry himself says, "For a long time, my thinking was that if you keep asking questions, you'll eventually find answers. But what's most important is to be curious.".

LVMH's collaboration with this award-winning architect began in 2001 with the conception of the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Opened in 2014, the facility is known for its striking architecture, featuring glass sails that emphasize transparency, volume, and light, and galleries resembling "icebergs." In the same year, this partnership continued with the "Twisted Box" bag, designed by Gehry for a collection commemorating Louis Vuitton's 160th anniversary. In 2019, Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul, Gehry's first architectural project in Korea, was completed. It features a curved glass facade inspired by the Fondation Louis Vuitton and traditional Korean architecture. The collaborations continued thereafter. In 2022, to celebrate the bicentennial of founder Louis Vuitton's birth, "Tea Party for Louis!" was unveiled, reinterpreting the iconic Louis Vuitton trunk inspired by "Alice in Wonderland." In the same year, he also designed "Blossom," a Murano glass bottle and metal cap for Louis Vuitton's fragrance "Les Extraits Collection."

The "Louis Vuitton × Frank Gehry" bag collection, first unveiled as ten highly limited pieces at Art Basel Miami Beach 2023, is also on display at this booth. This collection showcases three core themes of Frank Gehry's creative work: architecture and form, exploration of materials, and animals, applied to the iconic "Capucines" bag, two types of "Twist..."