12/05/2025
Breaking News
Frank O. Gehry, the master architect and prolific designer, has died at the age of 96. Gehry’s iconic buildings, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown Los Angeles, is acclaimed throughout the world. In May, the Courier reported on the Gehry-designed Louis Vuitton flagship planned for Rodeo Drive. The Courier has received this tribute from LVMH Chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault to his friend Frank Gehry.
"I am profoundly saddened by the passing of Frank Gehry, in whom I lose a very dear friend and for whom I shall forever retain boundless admiration. I owe to him one of the longest, most intense, and most ambitious creative partnerships I have ever had the privilege to experience. His oeuvre, crowned by the Pritzker Prize, is immense. He will remain a genius of lightness, transparency, and grace. Frank Gehry—who possessed an unparalleled gift for shaping forms, pleating glass like canvas, making it dance like a silhouette—will long endure as a living source of inspiration for Louis Vuitton as well as for all the Maisons of the LVMH group. With the Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la Création, he bestowed upon Paris and upon France his greatest masterpiece, the highest expression of his creative power, commensurate with the friendship he bore our city and the affection he showed for our culture.
My wife, my children, and I express our deepest condolences to his wife, Berta, and to his children.”
