Louis Vuitton to Transform Its Paris Headquarters into a Hotel
Luxury fashion brand Louis Vuitton will have its own hotel up and running within five years, according to Women’s Wear Daily (WWD). The company’s corporate headquarters in Paris’s 8th arrondissement will be transformed into a new hotel with amazing views of the city.
Louis Vuitton’s chairman and CEO, Michael Burke, told WWD, “My office is not going to be my office within five years, that’s for sure. There are better uses, more contemporary uses for it than a corporate office.”
Although the hotel will be a first for the brand, it won’t be the first hospitality venture for Louis Vuitton’s parent company LVMH, which also has a boutique luxury hotel brand Cheval Blanc and high-end hospitality group Belmond within its fold.
No word yet on who will design or oversee the building’s renovation; so, it’s not surprising that the full plans have not been released either. Louis Vuitton has worked with high-profile architects and designers on other projects, including Frank Gehry who designed the company’s Seoul flagship in 2020, and other designers who collaborated with the high-end fashion brand to create pieces for its furniture collection, Objets Nomades.
On December 12, 20,000 square feet of the corporate headquarters’ commercial space will be transformed into an experiential space called LV Dream – nine rooms that will feature an exhibition highlighting the brand’s collaborations with artists, architects, and designers as well as a gift store, and a café and chocolate shop run by Maxim Frédéric, the head pastry chef at Cheval Blanc Paris. Admission is free, but you must pre-book your visit on the Vuitton website.
