Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry has designed his first perfume bottle for French fashion brand Louis Vuitton.
The bottle was created to hold five different scents from the Louis Vuitton Les Extraits perfume collection, which is meant to capture "liberation" and "absolute movement".
Frank Gehry designed a perfume bottle for Louis Vuitton's Les Extraits collection
"I wanted to approach the project from a sculptural point of view, to bring something different to perfume," Gehry said.
"It's not a finished geometric form, it's just movement ? visual movement with the added interest of ephemerality."
The flower-shaped bottle caps are made from aluminium
For the bottle's crinkled cap, Gehry took a sheet of aluminium and sculpted it into a twisting, blossoming flower that sits on top of the flacon. The architect employed a similar technique for a crinkled gold bottle he made to mark the 150th anniversary of Hennessy X.O.
Gehry wanted the shape to embody the spirit of sailing, an activity that the architect is widely known to love.
"When you sail, on the ocean or elsewhere, there is a very intimate relationship between the skipper at the helm and the wind, and the visual impression it creates," Gehry explained.
"The sail moves gently, the air moves and you just try to keep steady ? there's an idea of movement, but it's not the same as with a racecar."
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