Assembled over two years, this graduated stack brings together eleven vintage Louis Vuitton monogram canvas trunks, arranged largest to smallest and rising as a single sculptural tower on a custom stand made expressly for the purpose. The trunks span the 1920s through the 1970s, each in monogram canvas with lozine edging, natural leather trim, and brass fittings, and together they trace half a century of the house's most enduring design. Every trunk in the stack is an exceptional example in its own right, selected for condition as much as for proportion, with the brass hardware hand-polished to a warm, even shine. To compose a stack of this kind is the work of patience rather than purchase, since the trunks must descend in even steps of size while holding to a consistent character, and pieces of the right quality and proportion appear only rarely. The custom stand raises the ensemble clear of the floor, so that it reads less as luggage than as sculpture, a true work of art for the home, commanding as the focal point of an entrance hall, a stair, a gallery, or a grand dressing room. Offered as a single lot, it is a rare opportunity to acquire, in a single moment, what is otherwise the patient work of years.
Assembled over two years, this graduated stack brings together eleven vintage Louis Vuitton monogram canvas trunks, arranged largest to smallest and rising as a single sculptural tower on a custom stand made expressly for the purpose. The trunks span the 1920s through the 1970s, each in monogram canvas with lozine edging, natural leather trim, and brass fittings, and together they trace half a century of the house's most enduring design. Every trunk in the stack is an exceptional example in its own right, selected for condition as much as for proportion, with the brass hardware hand-polished to a warm, even shine. To compose a stack of this kind is the work of patience rather than purchase, since the trunks must descend in even steps of size while holding to a consistent character, and pieces of the right quality and proportion appear only rarely. The custom stand raises the ensemble clear of the floor, so that it reads less as luggage than as sculpture, a true work of art for the home, commanding as the focal point of an entrance hall, a stair, a gallery, or a grand dressing room. Offered as a single lot, it is a rare opportunity to acquire, in a single moment, what is otherwise the patient work of years.
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