Luxury brand Louis Vuitton has concealed its New York flagship under renovation under a suitcase-like façade and moved into a temporary shop.

From East 57th Street and 5th Avenue a trunk-inspired facade simultaneously covers a temporary location around the corner, with sculptures developed with OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu . As for the next Vuitton hotel on the Champs Elysées in Paris.

3D scans of real Louis Vuitton hard trunks were used to create the locks and latches, and the steel corners were hand-welded. The stack features 840 rivets, each engraved with the nickname ‘Louis Vuitton.

Stripes of light run along each of the trunk’s perimeters, while black and brown stripes represent the leather lining. Now we can call the city not the Big Apple, but Big Suitcases.