Straw · Louis Vuitton
Gold-dust Straw Box
A cigar box in gold-dust straw marquetry, made for Louis Vuitton — the pattern mitred and matched by hand into a small, luminous object.
At this scale the work becomes jewellery: seams measured in fractions of a millimetre, the straw’s natural gleam doing the work of gilding. Proof that the art lives as fully in an object held in two hands as on the walls of a ballroom.
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