A number of years ago, a young painting conservator entered a forgotten storeroom in a fifteenth-century Florentine villa and stumbled on a pile of Louis Vuitton steamer trunks. She opened them and discovered a collection of exquisite dresses, the kind usually seen only in movies, or inside… (Continue reading at New Yorker magazine)
Imagine coming across all those steamer trunks and finding these treasures, so sad that they are literally melting into each other, dissolving into air.