LOUIS VUITTON WARDROBE TRUNK
HISTORY OF THE WARDROBE TRUNK
Invented much too early, the first patents for the so-called wardrobe trunk (in English) were created in 1852 in Vienna. But fashion will prevent the success of this future revolutionary trunk. In fact at that time the dresses with crinolines , then the trimmed or loose dresses, the sleeves with leg , etc. These immense, non-compressible dresses , with a wicker structure , steel whalebone or by several flexible metal hoops sewn into the fabric and hung around the waist by a system of cords, weighed down with several drapes (petticoats). Cannot be transported in trunks.
We will have to wait for fashion to change. The replacement of these crinoline dresses by dress without trim and by tailored suits. For Louis Vuitton to update and offer from 1875 this already old invention, one of the brand's most ingenious and legendary trunks , produced on a large scale to meet the immediate success. Designed to be opened vertically , take your wardrobe with you everywhere! A wardrobe on one side and a set of drawers on the other to avoid globetrotters the chore of unpacking their clothes at each stopover. We distinguish wardrobes trunks according to their heights and their arrangements. Available in a multitude of sizes, coated canvas and series .
It is the model " 115 " which corresponds to the height in centimeters of this one, whose size is specifically developed to meet the specifications of the American Railway Company. This model then becomes a standard of the luxury house and is the most widespread wardrobe model. The most common sizes are: 46 x 56 cm x 115 - 56 x 56 x 115
Price: The price of a wardrobe trunk is higher than that of a cabin trunk and a mail trunk . Find out the price of a new wardrobe trunk at Louis Vuitton.
THE MODELS :
WARDROBE TRUNK - 146
Wardrobe Height 146 cm - Trunk for hanging dresses.
For Men, locker option on the door: This trunk, built in the same way as the previous one, is specially designed to contain 12 to 15 complete items of clothing, regardless of overcoats, pelisses, overcoats, etc. All clothes are hung by patented coat racks and fastening systems.
Louis Vuitton wardrobe trunk - Vuittonite
Year: 1910
Serie: Vuittonite
Exterior: Orange vuittonite canvas
Trim: leather
Corners: leather
Interior: has locker on the door
Wardrobe + locker
1m46 cm x 56 cm x 55 cm
Louis Vuitton Wardrobe trunk - Monogram
Year: 1913
Serie: Leather and brass
Exterior: LV stencil Mark 1 monogram canvas
Trim: leather
Corners: brass
Interior: has locker on the door
Wardrobe + locker
1m46 cm x 56 cm x 55 cm
Louis Vuitton wardrobe trunk - Monogram
Year: 1912
Serie: 2nd
Exterior: LV stencil mark 2 monogram canvas
Border: dark lozine
Corners: steel
Interior: Wardrobe + locker
1m46 cm x 56 cm x 55 cm
Louis Vuitton wardrobe trunk - Monogram
Year: 1910
Serie: All leather
Exterior: All leather
Corners: Leather
Interior: Wardrobe + locker
1m46 cm x 56 cm x 55 cm
Louis Vuitton 1914 catalog extract - Page 30:
The first patent for a wardrobe trunk was taken in Vienna, around 1852. From this first idea sprang many models, but the fashion of the time, the crinoline, then the full or full dresses, the sleeves with leg, etc., condemned. this invention. Nevertheless, since 1875 from time to time we have made wardrobe trunks. It took the growing popularity of the tailored suit and the appearance of the dress without trim to make this already old invention known. It is in the interior layout, in the opening system and above all in an irreproachable manufacture that the superiority of our different types really appears.
The indisputable advantage of these trunks is that they allow you to no longer unpack when you arrive at the hotel.
As in the most perfect roberie, the dresses remain suspended forming no folds. As soon as we close the trunk, in a hurry
against each other they can no longer move, hence the impossibility of crumpling or crumpling. It is the packaging reduced to its extreme simplicity and that regardless of the ease we have to take the desired toilet without having to move the others.
The " WARDROBE " is the large wardrobe trunk, the one that will contain everything and which, for certain trips, will not allow you to take
only one trunk. In the drawers will be housed gloves, handkerchiefs, ties, linen, shoes, hats, etc. still leaving room for 12 to 18 dresses or clothes.
If this trunk is used without the drawers, then it will contain 15 to 25 dresses or items of clothing.
This trunk measures: 57 x 55 x 125 or 138 high.
Wardrobe 138 cm
Wardrobe Height: 138 cm
Malle for ladies , trolley wardrobe with a slide jamb.
Trunk for men, identical to the models for women, completed with two lockers with flap door. Removable in the right door. This configuration therefore reduces the storage space of the wardrobe.
Wardrobe 125 cm
Wardrobe Height: 125 cm
Ladies' trunk, wardrobe on sliding trolley with jamb.
" Locker-table " arrangement option
Old advertising:
VUITTON MALLS
are essential for all people who want to travel with comfort and elegance.
The "LOCKER-TABLE" WARDROBE
studied with meticulous care adapts to all needs and can be fitted out for men or women.
Louis Vuitton
70, CHAMPS-ELYSEES - PARIS
Will send its special "WARDROBE" Catalog upon request.
Free shipping and packaging in Europe.
COMPLETE WARDROBE
Louis Vuitton 1914 catalog extract - Page 30:
Besides the trunks cabinets must also mention their excellent corollary, the SECRETARIES and WARDROBE- COMPLETE which are small trunks especially reserved for the machine and menus trinkets, whose illustration is on page 33.
Louis Vuitton wardrobe trunk - Monogram
Year: 1915
Serie: Vuittonite
Exterior: Yellow Vuittonite
Corners: Leather
Interior: Wardrobe + locker
Louis Vuitton wardrobe trunk - Monogram
Serie: 1st
Exterior: Monogram LV Mark 5
Corners: brass
Interior: Wardrobe
Louis Vuitton Wardrobe trunk - SG
Year: 1913
Exterior: LV coated canvas
This model is part of the important luggage series ordered by Sacha Guitry and his wife, Yvonne Printemps. Most of the couple's trunks are personalized and numbered. This numbering process by numbers or letters makes it possible to distinguish a trunk and its contents in the luggage suite.
Wardrobe 115 cm
Louis Vuitton 1914 catalog extract - Page 30:
The " 115 ", diminutive of the trunk above (wardrobe 125 and 138), was created to meet certain requirements of the American Railway Companies. It has exactly the same advantages and for people of average height it can often be nicer than the large Wardrobe.
This trunk measures: 57 x 55 x 115 and exists in all "qualities".
Wardrobe Height: 115 cm this is the most common model, the most common arrangement including:
- A wardrobe on the left
- "shoes box" under the wardrobe
- 6 drawers on the right
Available in different depths, with cover on the wardrobe side on some models
Old advertisement from 1929:
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TO THE BUYERS OF ITS FAMOUS MALLS
- EIGHT MONTHS PAYMENTS
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Louis Vuitton wardrobe trunk - Monogram
Exterior: Mark 4 stencil LV monogram canvas
Border: lozine
Corners: Brass
Interior: Double wardrobe
115cm x 46cm x 56cm
Louis Vuitton wardrobe trunk - Brass
Year: circa 1920
Exterior: brass
Border: brass
Corners: Brass
Interior: Wardrobe + Shoe box x6 drawers
115cm x 66cm x 56cm
Louis Vuitton wardrobe trunk - Monogram
Exterior: LV stencil Mark 5 monogram canvas
Border: lozine
Corners: Brass
Interior: Double wardrobe, one side has a cover + shoebox
Louis Vuitton wardrobe trunk - Monogram
Exterior: LV stencil Mark 2 monogram canvas
Border: lozine
Corners: Brass
Interior: Double wardrobe
115cm x 46cm x 56cm
Louis Vuitton wardrobe trunk - Monogram
Year: 1934
Exterior: Mark 4 stencil LV monogram canvas
Border: lozine
Corners: Brass
Interior:
Wardrobe + Shoe box
x6 Drawers
115cm x 66cm x 56cm
It is a very large size.
Louis Vuitton trunk wardrobe - Elephant
Year: 1931
Exterior: elephant leather
Parts: leather
Interior: Red morocco
Wardrobe + Shoe box
x6 drawers
115 cm x 66 cm x 56 cm
unique model.
Louis Vuitton wardrobe trunk - Monogram
Year: 2010
Exterior: LV pvc monogram canvas
Border: lozine
Corners: Brass
115cm x 66cm x 56cm
Wardrobe 90 cm
Wardrobe Height: 90cm
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carriage paid in Europe.
Cabinet "90 x 26"
Suitcase wardrobe closet. There is also a wardrobe side, a locker side
Small wardrobe. Can be supplied with or without drawers
M12040 90x55x28cm. 35"x22"x11"
Dame wardrobe-drawers . Hangers and drawers - Woman
M12041 90x55x28cm. 35"×22"×11"
Men's wardrobe-drawers . Hangers & drawers - Men
M12045 90x55x28cm. 35"x22"x11"
Lady's double wardrobe. Hangers only - Woman
M12046 90 x 55 x 28 cm. 35"x22"x11"
Men's double wardrobe. Hangers only - Men
Louis Vuitton wardrobe trunk - Vuittonite
Exterior: Yellow vuittonite canvas
Trim: leather
Corners: leather
Interior: Double wardrobe
91cm x 56cm x 35cm
Louis Vuitton wardrobe trunk - Vuittonite
Exterior: Black vuittonite canvas
Border: black lozine
Corners: steel
Interior: Double wardrobe
91cm x 56cm x 35cm
Louis Vuitton wardrobe trunk - Monogram
Exterior: Mark 4 stencil LV monogram canvas
Border: lozine
Corners: Brass
Interior: Double wardrobes
91cm x 56cm x 35cm
Louis Vuitton wardrobe trunk - Monogram
Year: 1928
Exterior: Mark 4 stencil LV monogram canvas
Border: lozine
Corners: Brass
Interior: Wardrobe
x3 Drawers + Shoe box
91cm x 56cm x 35cm
WARDROBE 85 CM
1983 catalog extract: loziné wardrobes clothes racks
Wardrobe “85 x 20”
Same interior layout as the 90 X 26
Interior: all wardrobe OR wardrobe and two flat drawers
Dimensions: High. 0.90 - Width. 0.55 - Depth 0.28
1998 catalog extract: Trunks, Monogram canvas
Wardrobe 85 x 20
Same specifications as "90 x 26™
М12050 85 x 55 x 22 cm. 33" x 22" × 9*
Lady's wardrobe-drawers. Hangers & drawers - women
M12051 85×55×22cm. 33" x 22" x 9°
Men's wardrobe-drawers. Hangers & drawers - men
M12055 85×55×22cm. 33" x 22" x 9°
Lady double wardrobe. Hangers only - women
M12056 85×55×22cm. 33" x 22" x 9°
Double men's wardrobe. hangers
Extract from the 2010 catalog: Trunks, Monogram canvas
WARDROBE* 85 x 20
Same use as "90 × 26°
M12050 - Wardrobe - lady drawers
M12051 - Wardrobe - men's drawers
M12055 - Lady's double wardrobe
M12056 - Double wardrobe for men
Size: 85cm x 55cm x 22cm
Louis Vuitton Wardrobe Suitcase - Monogram
Year: 1975
Reference: M12055 - M12056
Exterior: Pvc Mark 1 monogram canvas
Border: lozine
Corners: Brass
Interior: All wardrobe
87cm x 56cm x 23cm
Louis Vuitton Wardrobe Suitcase - Monogram
Year: 1994
Reference: M12050 - M12051
Exterior: Pvc Mark 3 monogram canvas
Border: lozine
Corners: Brass
Interior: one side wardrobe, one side 2 drawers.
87cm x 56cm x 23cm
LOUIS VUITTON DOLL TRUNK
Louis Vuitton doll trunk
Games for children, faithful replica of the model for adults.
Produced by Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton doll trunk.
Child trunk.
rustic canvas
Another model of doll trunk on a reduced scale like a wardrobe to store a doll and its clothes. The dream for every child.
Sold in Louis Vuitton stores but not produced in Asniéres.
OTHER MODEL - SPECIAL ORDER
Louis Vuitton 1914 catalog extract - Page 30:
We have countless models; every day we execute on special ideas ; It would take several catalogs to give the description of all those that we have made for almost 40 years. We will therefore only present a few types. All are at will for lady or man, only the hat installation and the coat racks change. These trunks are made in Cow, Vuitonitte, 1st, 2nd and 4th series.
The “ D. T , ” patented model, an excellent little wardrobe trunk, measures 115 high, the front partially swivels and thus brings the entire wardrobe outside the trunk.
The " MF " having the regulatory measures of the cabin trunk of 100 and 110 cm. and can be used on board. The clothes placed in the lid are hung up as soon as the trunk is opened, while in the bottom are, in appropriate places, shirts, linen, gloves, ties, handkerchiefs, collars, hats, shoes, etc.
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