Underground & cool · Contemporary-art foundation · €€ · 16e · Trocadéro & Passy
Fondation Louis Vuitton
Frank Gehry's twelve billowing glass sails sit in the Bois de Boulogne over a building whose terraces and water-staircase are half the visit. The architecture rewards the climb to the upper decks more than any single canvas does.
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First Friday of the month it stays open to 23:00; a shuttle runs from the Arc de Triomphe.
Getting there
- Victor Hugo2110 m · 2 min walk
- Porte Dauphine2520 m · 10 min walk
- Boissière6570 m · 11 min walk
Walks that pass nearby
- Paris-1900stop 1 of 6 · 590 m
Métro Porte Dauphine
1900 Hector Guimard édicule, station entrance line 2. One of only two surviving Guimard entrances with the original glass canopy intact (the other is Abbesses). Identical to its 1900 photograph.
On the small avenue Foch side, not the boulevard side. Rarely photographed because it's at the end of a line and tourists don't come this far. Walk around the entrance once before going inside — every angle is original.
Where to stay near Fondation Louis Vuitton
- Canopy by Hilton Paris Eiffel TowerEiffel-view hotel€€€ · 1 minA Trocadéro hotel a short walk from the Tower, with a rooftop bar that frames it cleanly and a set of rooms built to do the same.
- Hôtel RaphaelRooftop-bar palace€€€ · 2 minA 1925 palace off the Champs-Élysées with a seventh-floor garden terrace, La Terrasse, that holds both the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. The corridors are hung with old masters; the roof is the open secret.
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The district · 16e
Trocadéro & Passy — Bourgeois westThe best head-on view of the Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro, the Bois de Boulogne, the Fondation Louis Vuitton and a run of quiet museums. Wealthy, leafy and reserved.
Best for: Families and museum-goers who want calm, green streets and the Tower nearby.
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