08 Jun

Coach

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Design by Françoise de La Perrière

Year: early 1970s, Sp 2013 (as 70cm)

No. 1531

In English, any form of horse-drawn transport is a ‘coach’. The coach seen here doubtless belonged to an important personality: heavy braid, fringed velvet, Venetian-style veils, blazons, decorative wheel-rims, and a lyre-shaped step-plate for delicately-shod feet unaccustomed to the tread of the sidewalk…





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