Milan – a city of fashion, design, gastronomy, and quiet contradictions. The capital of Lombardy has long drawn aesthetes, connoisseurs of nuance, and those who sense magic not where it’s obvious, but where it whispers. Louis Vuitton’s latest addition to its Travel Book series, Milan, illustrated by French artist Jeanne Detallante, invites us into precisely that realm – intimate, evocative, and gloriously off the beaten path.
This is no ordinary guidebook. You won’t find neatly arranged must-sees or postcard clichés. Travel Book Milan is a visual diary – personal, sensual, at times whimsically aloof. Detallante leads us through the city with the elegance of a flâneur: instinctively, emotionally, and always with a discerning eye. Each illustration is more than a landscape – it’s a mood, an observation, a playful bow to Milan’s nonchalant sophistication or, at times, a sly wink at its grandiose posturing.
Published by the house of Louis Vuitton, the book is more than an artistic album – it’s a collectible object of desire. Detallante’s signature line, known from the world of haute couture illustration and the Parisian school of decadent finesse, is perfectly at home among Milan’s porticos, cafés, and shadowed arcades.
But it isn’t just the form that captivates – the content itself carries weight. Detallante seems to approach the city not through the lens of a tourist, but through the eyes of a woman who knows to sit quietly with an espresso in Brera, not to check off a list, but to observe, to feel, to listen. This is a journey paced by mood, not itinerary – a slow, sensuous wandering marked by impeccable taste that never feels the need to announce itself.
Louis Vuitton has long been invested in the art of travel – and it does so with the kind of consistency only a Maison that has redefined luxury as experience, not just object, can achieve. Travel Book Milanfits seamlessly into this legacy: a book for those who appreciate subtlety, emotional intimacy with place, and – let’s be honest – the sublime texture of exquisite paper under one’s fingers.
This isn’t a book to read. It’s a book to contemplate.
Photos courtesy of Louis Vuitton
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