A library of crafts in trunks stacked Louis Vuitton
For France Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, Louis Vuittonand Oma/Shohei Shigematsu Disclose a twin set up that transcends the exhibition, structure and immersive story. Hosted within the common theme of the French Pavilion, “A Ing to Love”, the collaboration creates two distinct experiences – one rooted in heritage and the opposite propelled by the creativeness – inviting guests to discover the sustainable stress between custom and transformation.
The primary of flagThe 2 interconnected areas current a falnic archive of Savoir-Faire. Stackate from the ground to the ceiling, eighty -four open wardrobe trunks outline the structure of the room, making a vibrant room that each shops and show the 160 -year legacy of crafts. Every trunk is supplied with customized compartments that current movies of crafts at work, remodeling this “library” right into a residing approach museum. He warmly relegated as a lantern, the set up passes from the intense opening to the submissive thriller, the symbolic arch of the previous at present.
Photograph by Marco Cappelletti, kindness Louis Vuitton
The “theater of the long run” rotary at Expo 2025 Osaka
Within the second room a Expo 2025 OsakaFrance’s Pavilion, Louis Vuitton and The The Architects to Oma Shift Gears with a performing sphere a 6.6-meter monumental globe composed of totally of MARKThe white trunks of Courrier Courrier. The globe levitated in a double-height house, rotating and transferring vertically in synchronization with a Hypnotic video set up by Daito Manabe. Not like the primary introspective room, this kinetic surroundings evokes a futuristic theater, enveloping guests in movement, mild and sound. The sculptural object relies on Expo iconography, whereas reimaging the trunk, Louis Vuitton’s authentic design module, as a metaphor for exploration and reinvention.
Right here, the trunk turns into greater than a container – it’s a constructing block. The idea of Shigemamatsu interspersed which opposes house narratives: archive and theater, conservation and efficiency. –We created two contrasting areas with a single module, the trunk‘The architect clarify. –One is fabricated from stacked open trunks, the opposite one sphere fabricated from trunks. Intercourse, the 2 traditions and juxtapune transformation. The gesture additionally displays a deeper cultural resonance between France and Japan, emphasizing the widespread values of the craft, precision and innovation.
Louis Vuitton and Oma create a double set up for France’s Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka
The pavilion presents a vibrant lv library lv stacked full of artisan tales
Eighty -four trunks are stacked to change into immersive show modules
Heritage craft is contrasting with a digital journey