AZIMUTS #54 Louis Vuitton Grillage tells the story of

Grillage tells the story of its manufacturing process

Submerged by these goods

and urban planning principles of pre-Columbian civilizations to create imposing architectural monuments that even today retain their avant-garde nature—from the military academy he built as a modern-day Mayan ceremonial ground to the remote meditation center commissioned by his sister

With its curved steel tubes inspired by a bicycle handlebar

AZIMUTS #54 Louis Vuitton Grillage tells the story ofAzimuts 54 reports on a selection of design research surveys that were carried out in Saint Etienne between 2015 and 2022 by different researchers and collectives in collaboration between designer artists and academics linked to this territory, their field. Far from reflecting the exhaustiveness of the research approaches in design undertaken here and elsewhere, this issue attempts to present the diversity of approaches, methodologies and study