Nouveautés du site !

Section des nouveautés du site la malle en coin

The Museum of the Great War chose La Malle en coin to provide decoration baggage.
Temporary exhibition dedicated to the painter Josso.

Villeroy & Boch set, Christofle cutlery… So chic!

Nowadays the sleeping beauties are only seldom used for traveling.

The Louis Vuitton beautiful trunks are rather used for décoration .

Hereunder is a list of ideas that we have found or created with customers:

- Pile of suitcases 80, 70 , 60 and 50 cm in the entry

By forming a kind of perfect totem, it evokes the departure in the Orient-Express. :-)

- 100cm Steamer trunk or 100cm cabin trunk used as a coffee table in a nice lounge

- Steamer trunk at the bed end to store the blankets for winter

But some customers have other ideas, like these Wardrobe trunks

used in a bathroom to store/display bathrobes, towels, soap and other bathroom accessories.

Many are those who use small trunks as laundry basket, lingerie trunk or chest for secrets…

Trunks can also be found as valets in bedrooms or as extra seats.

Some use them as stand to put a nice lamp in a corridor, or as bedside table.

Sometimes we create a custom-made plinth to display them, or else, like at that man from Luxembourg’s home, we make a glass cube that totally protects the trunk.
Thus displayed in a case, it becomes a kind of objet d’art within everyone’s sight but out of reach for hands.

Several years ago, someone from a major luxury brand, looking at the photos of a restoration work, had said to me:
“It’s super, but, as I have no photos showing the previous condition, I cannot make out enough the work that has been done”.

That had given me an idea that we have just carried out.

The canvas of the trunk is the original. It has only been fixed and some little parts have been replaced.

All the parts of the trunk are original. Only restoration has been done (lock excepted, see below).

The stables strips have been painted only to delimit the two areas.

The missing lock has been replaced by a cast brass one that we have made according to the sand casting process
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Then it has been treated, polished, assembled piece by piece and riveted again as it was originally.

It is functional without mechanism. Of course it bears no logo, as it is not original.

Reminder: Should we allow ourselves to affix a LV logo, we would be making counterfeit.

Obviously enough that item is not for sale, but only meant to show our ability for refurbishing.

It will be exhibited under glass in the Musée du Bagage.

Loïc, aged 16, came to work in our workshops last summer.
A true experience for him and for us!
The bellow photo is very informative…
Loïc, aged 16, finishes cleaning a Nuremberg trunk from the 17th century i.e. aged more than 350!
Generations follow one another and that type of timeless object remains…