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Metal that behaves like cloth.
A Whiting & Davis mesh bag makes movement part of its beauty. Small linked elements turn a hard material into something that gathers, folds and catches light.
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THE WHV WORLD
Bags & Luggage
Objects for what you carry, from an evening out to a longer journey.
Our perspective on Bags & Luggage
THE QUESTION WE BRING
How do construction, condition and service change the ownership case?
OUR FIELD OF VIEW
- Handbags and evening bags
- Luggage and travel objects
- Leatherwork, materials and aftercare
Each selection begins with a specific subject, a reason to care and evidence worth examining.
In view.
8 readings
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The seam becomes the subject.
A Delvaux Tempête brings Kanazawa leaf work to the joins of a leather bag. The interesting detail is where two craft traditions meet.
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The bag as a craft archive.
LOEWE’s Puzzle 10 makes a decade of experiments in leather visible through one recognisable construction. The interest is in the making, not the anniversary badge.
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A bag that finds its shape.
BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE’s TRACK embeds its triangular structure within fabric. The bag’s changing volume makes geometry something you use rather than a pattern you merely look at.
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The road graphics you can carry.
A FREITAG tarpaulin bag turns a fragment of transport graphics into an everyday object. The cut matters as much as the material’s previous life.
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What a suitcase needs after the first journey.
The interesting part of this green case is not a famous traveller. It is the material and the route back to repair.
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The bag with a way back.
The Hermès Kelly is famous for its outline. Its more useful lesson is that construction, care and skilled repair decide whether an object can have another life.
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A bag with a history.
From a Kelly Pochette to monogrammed travel trunks: a September sale invites a closer reading of the individual piece.
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