Collage - Journal 1932...

Collage - Journal 1932...

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Hunting and Gatherings for your next Voyage

 Hunting and Gatherings for your next Voyage

Hermès for your travel desk "Under Canvas"

From 1929 to the late 1950's -  Arcitect and Designer - Paul Dupre-Lafon collaborated with Hermès and produced many great, elegant and understated items.


Contemporary - Understated elegance by Hermès - Campaign desk - Sycamore and leather

Hermès - Folding chair

Hermès - Folding side table


Hermès - Folding foot stool - Pear wood and leather

Hermès - Portable lounge chair  -Teak and leather

 19th Century  Ivory smoking set

Weather conditions for today? Barometer in a Sterling silver case

Reading glasses in a shagreen case...


Bring something to read from your library - with those reading glasses - Well, perhaps from  ??? 1675

"Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time".
- E.P. Whipple

At breakfast

One of my Travel "moustache cups".. to use on those occasions and times i have a beard.
You say moustache cup ??? Well, it is a drinking cup with a moon-shaped opening so we can keep the moustache/beard dry.  Invented in the 1860s.

Under the tropical sun and midday - perhaps some fresh squeezed lemonade...

We bring our past with us ??? Do we not???

and it all fits in your old family leather trunks/cases...

Bon Voyage...Travellers

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