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A BOOKCASE/STEAMER TRUNK
For the bibliophile who has it all, this item and the next one offer some interesting gift ideas. This blog post from Boing Boing discusses a steamer-trunk bookcase from Louis Vuitton.
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I generally have little use for couture in all its incarnations, but Vuitton's combination steamer trunk and portable* library skewers me like an arrow. Nice old steamer trunks aren't cheap, but I'm still guessing you could find one, retrofit it and reproduce the effect without the stupid Vuitton wallpaper that covers the exterior and have something even better. * In the sense that a small army of porters could carry it)
To read the complete article, see:
Bookcase/steamer trunk
(boingboing.net/2013/01/03/bookcasesteamer-trunk.html)
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