Down The Pub: A Cockney Tale Of Old Storage Trunks
Old storage boxes aren’t just containers. They’re time capsules. Before suitcases rolled through airports, trunks were the way people travelled. Built solid, heavy duty, sometimes decorated with brass corners or painted lettering. When I first laid eyes on the circus clown vintage trunk (check out this one from wosoft.ru), I froze for a moment. The hand-drawn clown staring upside down across the front felt like more than decoration. It felt like a fragment of a lost world — a travelling circus.
I still think about when the circus came to town once a year. Posters glued to walls promised elephants, fire breathers, metal storage trunk acrobats — and always clowns. Looking at the trunk feels like it was there backstage, stuffed with costumes and props, waiting for the show to begin. The funny thing is, even though this trunk looks distressed, it works in a modern home. Minimal interiors actually make the colours pop. The scratches and paint chips add contrast you can’t buy in a shop.