Louis vuitton daniel buren biography

Frank Owen Gehry, was born in 1929 in Toronto (Canada), but adopted American nationality after moving to Los Angeles in 1947 with his parents. He graduated in Architecture in 1954 from the University of Baja California and began working in the studio of Victor Gruen. After completing his military service, he studied Urban Planning at Harvard and returned to Gruen’s office. He moved to Paris in 1961 with his wife and two daughters, where he worked for a year with André Rémondet. In 1962, he opened his own studio –Frank O. Gehry and Associates– in Los Angeles, from which he has worked on projects in America, Europe and Asia for five decades now.

He rose to prominence in the 70s for his buildings with sculptural forms that combine unusual industrial materials such as titanium and glass. During this same period, he began to develop a role as a designer of furniture with his Easy Edges collection, conceived as a low-cost range comprising fourteen pieces made out of cardboard, subseque

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The Joy of Sets: Daniel Buren on building Louis Vuitton

D&C: You've previously collaborated with Hermès, how do you enjoy collaborating in the world of fashion?
Daniel Buren: I would first säga that the world of fashion has a very long history of direkt collaboration with the art world. The twentieth century is full of many such collaborations. We have some real highlights (and some less exciting examples) and a tradition at work in that domain. I believe that for at least twenty years we have been at the very top level of collaboration between these two worlds. On a personal level, a long time ago I did the "vitrines" of Nina Ricci in Paris and then inom was requested to create the layout for the catalogue of DIOR, both works which I really enjoyed doing. The request for Hermès was even more ambitious with the realization of 365 unique square scarfs employing an innovative new technique never before used of ink jet on pure silk. Then came the planerat arbete with Louis Vuitton, wh

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Daniel Buren

French artist

Daniel Buren (born 25 March 1938, in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French conceptual artist, painter, and sculptor. He has won numerous awards including the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1986), the International Award for best artist in Stuttgart (1991) and the prestigious Premium Imperiale for painting in Tokyo in 2007. He has created several world-famous installations, including "Les Deux Plateaux"(1985) in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais-Royal, and the Observatory of the Light in Fondation Louis Vuitton. He is one of the most active and recognised artists on the international scene, and his work has been welcomed by the most important institutions and sites around the world.

Work

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Sometimes classified as a Minimalist, Buren is known best for using regular, contrasting colored stripes in an effort to integrate visual surface and architectural space, notably on historical, landmark architecture.

Among his primar