A New Handle On Luggage

Collecting Design — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:23:54 +0100

In her most recent article for the Financial Times, Nicole Swengley discusses the growing trend in contemporary design for “suitcase style” furniture.

The use of luggage as a decorative element in interior spaces is hardly a new idea. As Swengley points out, “interior designer Kelly Hoppen was stacking lacquered trunks in geometrically precise tiers more than a decade ago,” but many of the latest adaptations from designers go beyond the ornamental use of these travel cases by using them as material to create entirely new pieces of furniture.

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A New Handle On Luggage