INTERIOR S TYLE Lost luggage found
Margaret McCloy retrieves the idea of glamorous trunks and tallboys from an elegant past
Margaret McCloy
margaretmccloy@btconnect.com L
ast week I saw a shooting star and a flying angel. It was in Southampton, while on board the QM2, that I saw the flying angel – logo of the Mission to Seafarers. There was a fine presentation on the ship by The Princess Royal, its patron, and Cunard provided delectable food set amongst stunning ice sculptures. Sadly, we were asked to leave two hours before the liner headed off to New York. But not before I’d had a good look round at the beautiful 1930s décor.
As I disembarked, I noticed the luggage on the quay waiting to go aboard: ghastly, flowery, fluorescent pink holdalls and
bright green suitcases, an ocean away from the glamorous luggage that would have found
its way onto such sumptuous ships during the elegant 1930s.
In those days passengers would have had travelling tallboys and cabin trunks, full of drawers and spaces in which to hang one’s evening clothes and store one’s jewellery. The entire luggage would have been beautifully crafted to roll on castors straight into your cabin. Yet you don’t need to go on a cruise ship to make use of a handsome cabin trunk; you can buy them now in a form
that is ideal for use in a bedroom or dressing room. These trunks would even look good as a place to store toys in a family room, or to file papers in a study. Whether you choose one in a tasteful plaid for a traditional room, or a tallboy chest or trunk in stylish stainless steel for a contemporary look, you are assured of ample storage – even if there isn’t quite enough room for your tiaras.
So lie in bed and plan the cruises you might take – a slow boat to China, perhaps – with your luggage beside you; or just fill a vase with the white flowers of traveller’s joy, sit at your desk and enjoy your furniture with its echoes of an exciting past. That furniture will have been shipped to these shores by seafarers thousands of miles from home. Let’s hope that, if they feel the need for friendship and support, a flying angel will come their way too.
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