A measured working bag in Louis Vuitton's idiom, finished with the attention a serious example asks for. The lot is catalogued as the Louis Vuitton Steamer Bag Monogram Eclipse Canvas. Built from Monogram Eclipse - Vuitton's black-and-grey reading of the house monogram, reserved for the men's line, the material does the quiet work the silhouette finishes off. With a 7 by 6 by 2.5 inch format, the piece carries with miniature confidence rather than scale for scale's sake. Slipped into a working wardrobe, it reads as taste rather than statement, the kind of piece that quietly recasts the rest of the outfit. It is the sort of object the right buyer recognises before the catalogue does. Offered through Maison de Beaubigonne, where the house quietly favours the pieces that outlast the season.

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