The spirit of travel
A project by Diego Recchia
Index
Intro
IV
Personae
VI
The modern fl창neur
Habitat
VIII
The house of memories
Environment
X
The contemporary landscape
Project
XII
Elements Handle Lock Corner Pullhandle Wheels Interior
XIV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX
Views
Concept one Concept two
XXII XXIII
Colors
XXIV
III
Intro
“La foule est son domaine, comme l’air est celui de l’oiseau, comme l’eau celui du poisson. Sa passion et sa profession, c’est d’ épouser la foule. Pour le parfait flâneur, pour l’observateur passionné, c’est une immense jouissance que d’élire domicile dans le nombre, dans l’ondoyant dans le mouvement, dans le fugitif et l’infini. Etre hors de chez soi, et pourtant se sentir partout chez soi ; voir le monde, être au centre du monde et rester caché au monde, tels sont quelques-uns des moindres plaisirs de ces esprits indépendants, passionnés, impartiaux, que la langue ne peut que maladroitement définir. L’observateur est un prince qui jouit partout de son incognito. L’amateur de la vie fait du monde sa famille, comme l’amateur du beau sexe compose sa famille de toutes les beautés trouvées, trouvables et introuvables ; comme l’amateur de tableaux vit dans une société enchantée de rêves peints sur toile. Ainsi l’amoureux de la vie universelle entre dans la foule comme dans un immense réservoir d’électricité. On peut aussi le comparer, lui, à un miroir aussi immense que cette foule ; à un kaléidoscope doué de conscience, qui, à chacun de ses mouvements, représente la vie multiple et la grâce mouvante de tous les éléments de la vie.”
“The crowd is his element, like air for the bird, like water for fish. His passion and profession is to marry the crowd. For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate observer, it is a great pleasure to establish his residence in the heart of the multitude, in the middle of the flow of movement, in the middle of the fugitive and the infinite. Being away from home and yet feel at home everywhere, see the world, to be the center of the world and remain hidden from the world; these are some of the small pleasures of those independent minds, passionate, impartial, that language can only clumsily define. The observer is a prince who rejoices in all his incognito. The lover of life makes the world his family, just as the lover of the fair sex who builds his family with all the beautiful women that he never found, or that they are or not, to find, or lover images who lives in a magical society of dreams painted on canvas. So the lover of universal life enters into the crowd like a huge reservoir of energy. You can also compare it to a mirror, so immense, as this crowd, with a kaleidoscope of conscience, that in each of its movements, is the variety of life and moving through all the elements of life. “
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
Le peintre de la vie moderne, III. “L’artiste, homme du monde,
The painter of modern life, III. “The artist, gentleman, man of
homme des foules et enfant”, Le Figaro, novembre–décembre 1863.
the crowd and child”, Le Figaro, November-December 1863.
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Personae The modern flâneur
Edouard Manet _ The Café-Concert
A man waiting at the airport
A man reading in
a park
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
VI
CROWD OBSERVER
PROFESSIONAL WANDERER
BUSY DAWDLER
INTELLECTUAL PASSENGERS
VII
Habitat The house of memories
Remember
Paths
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House
“Take only memories, leave only footprints.�
VIII
LA JOIE DE RE-VIVRE
ARCHIVE OF EXPERINCES
MIND’S WINDOW
WORLD OBSERVATORY
IX
Environment The contemporary landscape
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“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.�
X
IMPROVISED PATH
CULTURAL PANDORA
LIQUID BOUNDARIES
UNEXPECTED DESTINATION
XI
Project
XII
XIII
Elements Handle
Padded leather Metal cap
Flat construction
Metal bridge Metal cap
Padded leather
XIV
Leather grip
Release buttons
Metal hinge
Leather grip
Metal cap
XV
Elements Lock
Locking system
Combination Magnetic area
Magnetic pullers
XVI
Elements Corner
Recessed monogram
Metal corner
XVII
Elements Pullhandle
Leather handle grip
Recessed metal bar
Leather patch
Rotable smartsleeve
XVIII
Elements Wheels
Replaceable cap corner
XIX
Elements Interiors
Hold in position foldable divider
Pp board inside
Leather flap
Soft lining
Removable laptop sleeve 13’’
Tablet
XX
Hold in place shirt organizer
Easy access comparts
Gusset organization
Leather label
XXI
Views Concept One
XXII
Views Concept Two
XXIII
Colors
XXIV
XXV
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.