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Rare Louis Vuitton Trunk with Striped Canvas France circa 1885
The earliest Louis Vuitton trunks were revolutionary when they hit the market. It had a flat lid, rather than the domed lid that was then conventional, which meant it could be easily stacked, and was covered in the house’s ingenious, glue-treated and watertight Trianon canvas. Such clever features, of which several more would follow over the decades, are what put Vuitton trunks at the top of luxury traveller’s shopping list. After the plain grey Trianon came the counterfeit-challenging Rayée (or striped) canvas in 1872 and remained in production until the introduction of the now world famous LV monogram in 1896.
The stripes are reputedly inspired by trips in the Deauville region. It was very fashionable to take the waters in Deauville and the buildings in the resort which are half-timbered vertically. Louis Vuitton wanted to have striped canvases, to recall these charming trips to the upscale holiday destination of the 1800s.
