Louis Vuitton Tambour - Hardcover

Reybaud, Fabienne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 050002586X ISBN 13: 9780500025864

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

A stylish and beautifully crafted celebration of LV’s Tambour watch, a masterpiece of modern design and technical innovation

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About the Author

Fabienne Reybaud is a journalist and an expert on luxury goods. She was editor of watchmaking and jewelry at Le Figaro for twenty-five years and now writes widely on the subject for the French media, including Paris Match and Numéro. She is the author of a dozen books, including Watches: The Ultimate Guide (Assouline, 2010), Effortless Style: Casa Lopez with Pierre Sauvage (Flammarion, 2018), Rolex: The Impossible Collection (Assouline, 2018) and Chanel: Jewelry and Watches (Assouline, 2020).

From the Back Cover

A stylish and beautifully crafted celebration of LV’s Tambour watch, a masterpiece of modern design and technical innovation.

This meticulously crafted and stylish celebration of Tambour, Louis Vuitton’s line of modern luxury watches, marks the 20th anniversary of its creation. The first Tambour model launched in Japan in 2002 and became an instant classic, with its signature drum-shaped case (tambour is French for ‘drum’), superb Swiss engineering and innovative, uncompromising aesthetic. The line now includes specialist designs for sport, sailing and diving, the urban-chic Street Diver, the high-tech Tambour Horizon smartwatch, creative reinventions of the LV Monogram and collaborations with contemporary artists such as Yayoi Kusama and Takashi Murakami. Essays by journalist and luxury watch expert Fabienne Reybaud explore the creative origins of the Tambour design and the history of LV watches, along with the precision work of the Geneva watchmakers behind the brand’s reputation for excellence. A Catalogue Raisonné of all Tambour models and exclusive interviews with leading watch connoisseurs make this a useful resource for collectors. With more than 400 illustrations and a lavish design, this book is a beautiful collector’s object in its own right, for all lovers of luxury accessories and the LV lifestyle.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 050002586X
• ISBN 13: 9780500025864
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 266