The Louis Vuitton Foundation at 8 Avenue du Mahatma-Gandhi, beside the Jardin d'Acclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne, was designed by Frank Gehry, with STUDIOS architecture as local architect. LVMH and its subsidiaries are the client, through a nonprofit entity. Groundwork began in 2006 and construction in March 2008. It opened on October 20, 2014.
The text calls the style Deconstructivist. It has 3,600 glass panels in the main text and 3,584 in the 2012 section, plus 19,000 concrete panels. The building has two stories and 11 galleries totaling 41,441 square feet (3,850 m²).
A 2011 court ruling canceled the building permit, and a special law later let the project proceed. The text gives a projected cost of 100 million euros and a 2017 report of 780 million euros. It is an art museum and cultural center that recorded 1,570,000 visitors in 2025. The article gives no hours.
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