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If you noticed the posting was a little sparse last week, please excuse it, it's because I was here...

Lago di Como

[Pics courtesy of Clark's Bberry]

LustList >> For the Library >> 100 Legendary Trunks

“This exceptional book showcases the most beautiful creations of the House through more than eight hundred photographs. Many incredible pieces are featured here, along with the equally incredible stories of their creation. Available from October 2010.”


Must. Pre-order. Now.  The video alone is a dream.

Pre-order Louis Vuitton 100 Legendary Trunks here.

[all images are screen-grabs from the video]
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Retro Travel-Inspired Graphic Design

 Love these retro travel-inspired pieces designed by Caroline Popham as press invites for UK fashion brand Jigsaw.

Summer Lovin >> LustList >> Airstream Trailers

My sister and I have a fascination (obsession?) with well-designed trailers, starting and ending with the Airstream.  They are the holy grail of trailers, with their brilliant trademark aluminum siding that makes them forever the coolest and most-recognizable trailer.

You can't get much more Americana.

We've discussed using them for everything from actual tours around the states to stand-alone hotel rooms clustered on a piece of land to inspiration for packaging for... well.. I can't actually tell you because you might like the idea so much you'd take it. 

Much to our delight, Airstream continues to turn out new models that have that retro appeal without getting too kitschy about it.  Through collaborations with everyone from Design Within Reach to Victorinox, I'm pretty sure there's an Airstream out there for everyone.   (The one above was retro-fitted by Ralph Lauren.)

Click through for the latest and greatest from Airstream...

Travel Guides for Design-Lovers and Connoisseurs of All Sorts

 Now this is the kind of guide book that could really get you excited about a trip.  Published by the Little Bookroom, these guidebooks have fun, specialized topics and hands-down the best covers of any guidebooks I've ever seen.

Maybe not practical to actually haul with you, since each city has multiple books dedicated to various topics, rather than comprehensive guides, but wouldn't you love to leaf through these every night in bed leading up to a trip to pick all the places you wanted to go?

And then they'd forever remain on your coffee table or bookshelves, collectible reminders of your trips.

 At The Little Bookroom.

Golden Age

Loving this piece from the NYT Style Magazine on the former glory of the styles of the skies.

"We’re told that there was a magical time long ago when, whatever your seat assignment, flying was first-class. But when did it all end? Last week, Marie Force, the archivist at the Delta Heritage Museum in Atlanta, published an online gallery of photographs of Delta flight attendant uniforms from 1940 to the present. “Delta was one of the more conservative airlines,” Force says. “We didn’t have hot pants.” Still, for almost 40 straight years, the airline’s female flight attendants (something called “stewardesses”) turned heads.

In the 1940s, they did it with military-style overseas caps and spectator shoes; in the ’50s, with futurist insignias and stiletto pumps; and in the ’60s, with A-line topcoats, alligator-print boots, Chanel-inspired jackets with three-quarter-length sleeves and the “Delberet,” a pillbox hat designed for Delta by Mea Hanauer, a New York milliner. The ’70s were all about coo-coo colors, bell-bottom pants, Slavic tunics and, weirdly, a yellow raincoat. And then in the ’80s, Delta took a sartorial nosedive that it couldn’t recover from until 2001. Return your seat to its upright position, and take a look."

My mom was actually just telling me today that the prettiest girl she knew as a teenage in Memphis went on to be a Pan-American stewardess and that it was the biggest deal because only the most beautiful girls were hired by Pan-American.  Then, she was scouted by someone from Hollywood who was on one of her flights, and she ended up in the movie South Pacific.  A "fairytale story," as my mom put it.  Those were different days indeed.
Article here.

via... someone who still flies in style... thanks!

Itinerary >> Portugal

Maybe second in line behind Turkey on my list of places to visit will be Portugal, which I've wanted to go to ever since reading Frances Mayes' travel memoir A Year in the World, which makes the food out the food in Portugal out to be quite wonderful.  

Oh, and for $150 a night, you can stay in a place like this in a room with an ocean view:

 

 Estalagem da Ponto do Sol

  

  

Or this...

A hotel housed within this mansion and its modern addition.

Near this cute town...

Estalagem here.
Farol here.

Hotels found in the Design Hotels Yearbook 08, available here.

Bon Voyage

Doesn't this make traveling look stylish?  Like it used to be?  Back in those good old days I like to talk about that I didn't live through? 

So maybe she's on a private plane and she had hair and makeup people because this is actually a photo shoot and not real life, but leave that out and she's still heads above the rest because there's not an Ugg or sweatpant (#petpeeve) in sight.

I'm not saying you have to look like this babe while traveling, but I don't think it's even passable to stoop to the ugliness of airports and airplanes and dress so dismally to fly.  Let's start a movement to resurrect the era when airtravel was posh.


Flavia de Oliveira shot by Fabio Bartelt -- it was an editorial, so not all one designer, but I don't even know what magazine it was for... sorry!


via Maison Chaplin