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Painter of light, building of light
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Claude Monet, a representative impressionist painter, is a painter of light. At the end of the 19th century, realist painters who accurately depicted phenomena were mainstream. In contrast, there was the Impressionist movement. Impressionism means drawing things not as they are, but as they are felt. Claude Monet, who is well known to us, is the painter who led the Impressionist movement.
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He claimed that his works change according to light, the viewer's mood, environment, time, weather, etc., and his characteristic is drawing flowing pictures without contours according to his feelings. One well-known painting is "Water Lilies."
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You may wonder unexpectedly why we are talking about painter when we talk about Louis Vuitton's space. However, this space is important because the space designer Jun Aoki was inspired by Monet's work "La Grenouillère" when designing this building. It is a painting of people enjoying leisure on the water's edge. He made efforts to design this building inspired by the shape of lily pads in the water. In fact, if you search for the painting and compare it with photos of the building, you can see a very similar form.
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This space also adds a soft and finite color sense shown in Monet's paintings. Space designers who draw spaces like this often get inspiration from various fields of artists. In turn, artists from various fields also get inspiration from space designers. However, a space does not end in a small canvas or a small scale of about 5m*5m*5m. The important thing is how space designers apply the inspiration. Especially when a part of the inspiration is realized as a building, it often loses its functional aspects due to excessive settings.
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But this space today is different. This building, which is surrounded by a special pattern of dichroic film on the exterior walls, has no windows when viewed from the outside. Buildings without windows, like traditional department stores, may sometimes exist, but considering factors such as ventilation, light environment, and psychological elements for people working inside, windows are necessary. When you enter the space with such questions, you can see how they are being resolved. Ventilation is done mechanically. So, what about the light? External film was used to increase the transparency of the bulging and protruding parts thin enough to be used as windows. It is an appropriate way to express windows according to the method of manufacturing external panels. Just by looking at this scene, you can see that this building is a very well-designed space. Beauty and functionality, that is the basis of design. Furthermore, it is undeniable that it is a masterpiece that applies the design language appropriately both internally and externally, expressing the feeling of water lilies through staircase halls or the expression of wall surfaces. The rest of the story about the space will be left to the discretion of the experiencer.
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+ It looks like a Louis Vuitton store, but they operate a chocolate café on the rooftop.
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This is Louis Vuitton Ginza, a building of light in Ginza.
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📍Location _ 7 Chome-6-1 Ginza, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-0061 Japan
⏰Business Hours _ 11~20
🚗No Parking❌
📝Menu attached.