Louis Vuitton restores 18th-century wooden architectural models for Venice exhibition

Key facts

• Louis Vuitton restored 18th-century wooden architectural models from the Museo Correr collection.
• The exhibition runs until November 14, 2016 at the Museo Correr's Sala della Quattro Porte.
• The Villa Pisani model remains at Palazzo Fortuny until November 6, 2016.
• The collaboration is with the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia (MUVE).
• Models include a design for a large palace on the Grand Canal (never built), Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, and Villa Pisani.
• The exhibition coincides with a show at Espace Louis Vuitton extended until February 26, 2017.
• The Espace show features scale models of the Fondation Louis Vuitton building by Frank Gehry with an intervention by Daniel Buren.
• The models were used as essential tools in construction from the Renaissance to the 19th century.