Thursday, January 9, 2014
amsterdam by the cheap louis vuitton
Bags to die for Behind a rather ordinary door off a quiet canalstreet in
amsterdam is one of the city's most extraordinary museums, and this in a city
which isn't short of museums. From the rembrandtstacked rijksmuseum and the
enormous van gogh collection to the everpopular sex museum and one given over to
tattoos(More interesting than you may think), Amsterdam seems awash with
collections, displays and objects in glass cases. But behind the door on 17th
century herengracht, an easy stroll from the central dam area, is a museum of
bags and purses.And when the displays aren't breathtakingly beautiful they are
historic, funny, puzzling or just plain odd. The collection, assembled over
three decades, was originally housed in the home of collectors hendrikje and
heinz ivo but rapidly outgrew the space available. A businessman who wishes to
remain anonymous was so impressed by what he saw that he bought the ivos the
current building for the museum of bags and purses which opened in july 2007.
Last year it was voted the best specialist museum in amsterdam by the cheap
louis vuitton handbags uk city's time out magazine. It is easy to see
why.More than three floors in the beautifully preserved house are given over to
literally thousands of bags, cases and purses with explanatory notes.The history
of these objects is also witness to the changing times. An alms bag from the
17th century bears the beaded inscription"Remember the pore 1630"[sic].When
railway travel became popular, luggage bags needed to be more sturdy(Leather and
crocodile skin became popular)And with flat bottoms.In the 20th century, new
times offered new materials, such as plastics, mesh and steel beads. In addition
to big bang contemporary names such as gucci, chanel, dolce gabbana, louis
vuitton, alexander mcqueen, issey miyake and stella mccartney(Weighing in with
an ugly affair), the older bags and styles are impressive and often leave you
shaking your head in wonderment. In the centuries before clothing had pockets,
bags and purses were necessary to carry money, bibles, alms and holy relics.And
so we see old leather and cloth pouches which would hang from a belt or girdle,
and a silk embroidered purse from scotland around 1745 which belonged to bonnie
prince charlie. The embroidery on the 17th and 18th century items is impossibly
delicate, there are fragile limoges boxes and chatelaines(Decorative carrying
chains which went out of fashion in the 20th century and were replaced by
handbags), letter cases(One unfolding like complex origami)And colourfully
beaded beaded bags with exotic chinese scenes. There is an unfinished beaded bag
from the netherlands made by using with five needles simultaneously, a tobacco
pouch from the early 19th century with a scenes from robinson crusoe and bags of
fine http://www.gsx1400.co.uk/ lace. The
embarrassing truth however is my wife and i were seduced by the most politically
incorrect items in the collection:The beautifully crafted bags of tortoiseshell
and ivory. A 19th century spectacle case of steel, mother of pearl, snakeskin,
tortoise shell and engraved ivory had us gasping with admiration.This was
something to display rather than use, a real objet d'art. Equally so, the
gorgeous, geometric art deco designs and the bizarre cases or unusual bags in
shape of clocks, fish and cars.One bag from the 1980s was also a functioning
telephone, and schiaparelli designed a long travelling bag the homepage
here in the shape of the liner normandie for its maiden voyage in
1935.It is as stylish as it is extraordinary. The diverse ivos collection more
than 4000 bags, cases, pouches and purses, described as"An ode to all the women
in this world"By hendrikje includes luxurious gifts from imelda marcos and
bottega veneta, the purse madonna carried to the premier of evita, and polished
wooden school bags to be hung on hooks in hallways. There are bags of ostrich,
horse, zebra and antelope hide, one is an eviscerated armadillo, and others are
made from the skin of nile perch, stingrays and toads.As awful as that sounds
yes, it is awful and wrong the bags are sinfully beautiful.Many were donated to
the museum, although it also has an active acquisition programme. In a video
heinz says simply,"It began with one bag and. " A french fashion magazine in the
19th century once wrote,"A woman can leave her husband but never her bag".
Behind that ordinary door in central amsterdam, the elegant, mustsee museum of
bags and purses offers hundreds of musthaves many probably much more attractive
to have on the arm than a husband.
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