louis vuitton | the horizon aluminum collection

Marc Newson’s most famous design is a chair. The Lockheed Lounge, to be exact, made in 1986 which bent aluminium into a curving, futuristic form so prescient that it became the most expensive functional design object ever sold by a living creator, auctioning for around $3.2 million in 2015. Thirty years on, his newest aluminium invention is considerably more portable, and considerably more practical. Newson has created the world’s first rivet-free aluminium suitcase for Louis Vuitton. The ‘Horizon Aluminum’ marks ten years of one of luxury’s more productive design partnerships. Of everything Newson has created, from the Apple Watch to the first electric Ferrari to the twisting staircase in Karl Lagerfeld’s home, his work with Louis Vuitton has perhaps been the most sustained exercise in translating industrial design language into the vocabulary of travel. The original Horizon launched in 2016, built around the same rounded curves and clean silhouette that define Newson’s broader body of work. The aluminium version takes a decade’s worth of thinking and applies it to a material the house has a longer history with than most people realise. Louis Vuitton was making aluminium trunks for explorers in the late 19th century. Newson is the latest chapter... Read more » The post louis vuitton | the horizon aluminum collection appeared first on Schön! Magazine.