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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