There the imagination has more limitations

Old trunks, usually manufactured in different sizes, custom and meet the whims of a customer who would never renounce its comfort. If the Explorer Savorgnan de Brazza-malle-bed remained famous, the article was common in catalogues Louis Vuitton at the end of the 19th century. The great built in just about anything made: the trunk to hats, trunks-Secretaries (with foldout Office and mini-library of travel), trunks "five o'clock", comprehensive for the time of the tea in the tropics, trunks-wheels of relief, to stay in the hollow of the spare tire for is storing a few tools and a washbasin of campaign (the driver could thus wash their hands)Sports (tennis rackets or golf cannes) trunks, trunks to lavish accommodations for great dandy mindful of not offending its ties...

On the transatlantic should change held three times a day (morning, elegant chic in the afternoon, formal evening), accessories (hats, gloves, bags, shoes) with each range. The baggage of domestic servants in addition to those of the rich passengers, there were dozens of trunks, briefcases and garment (rigid suitcases) by family. Hence the interest of the trunk-wardrobes, relegated during the journey in a special compartment: dresses and costumes are sailed on hangers, jacks and Chamber women completing retrieve it during the cruise.

A discreet fragrance of adventure

Outmoded by the charters and Nylon, these old trunks, heavy and rigid, revive nostalgia for moving travel. Their monogrammée, their ornaments and their nails brass canvas, their distant hotels labels refer us to a nomadic néo-mythologie: the art of living gone golden age, the glamour of horizons that remained to discover, the order of a world that was still going at the pace of a handful of horsepower... It is this discreet adventure perfume purchased today with these cabin trunks of collection. Those of Louis Vuitton become untraceable, or at prices which have doubled over the past five years (from 6 000) and in conditions of authenticity increasingly more suspicious. The real new rich - client of private jets and the mégayachts - indeed besieged the workshops of Louis Vuitton and Goyard to order of trunks to their sales and the dimensions of their ego. The cabin trunk becomes a true exterior sign of opulence. When the bunkers of a Boeing private at its disposal, the issue of the excess baggage becomes anecdotal. For others, the trunk is made smaller or becomes a key element of the trip... at home. There, the imagination has more limitations. Ideas come for a whole generation of new built to the happiness of the last workers able to transform some planks of poplar in "art of travel". Jean-François Ducas makes for a ultrafortunée exotic clientele, coated traditional trunks of crocodile, sometimes garnished or studded with gold. Pinel & Pinel to pack a picnic complete with champagne Krug as well as an entire audio or video. These holdouts of the contemporary luggage blithely mix tradition and high-tech materials. Memory is up to a few big names. Louis Vuitton continues to redecorate his new shops with old trunks. Hermes, who carried more cabin trunk since the maiden voyage of the France (1962), quietly presents starts. At Dior, Hedi Slimane understood that true chic was rigid. We see even re-emerge a reference as La Malle Bernard, the oldest French malletier, which survived until now in outsourcing of large houses. Or Samsonite - American champion of the rigid plastic - risk in this market of the new trunk trend. Restore a substance and a new meaning to forgotten objects: it is the essence of approach "newstalgique", fundamental concept to understand how our lifestyles advance toward the future eyes on the mirror. Do the above all not take trunk!

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-Jean-François Ducas: 01 42 96 45 85

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Semantic quarrel

The cabin trunk is the trunk that could drag under the bunk of his cabin in a cruise ship, and open top. The trunk-Cabinet, or trunk-Wardrobe (named wardrobe in France!), is a large vertical trunk, which opens into two as a cupboard, wardrobe left, chest of drawers and drawers on the right. It was a specialty of trademarks French such as Louis Vuitton and Goyard, but Italian houses or deemed American (Oshkosh).