Napoleon III Leather Correspondence Box adding depth and history to

adding depth and history to a contemporary setting

• Hang above a French farmhouse worktable or antique butcher’s block for a collected

it also makes a striking contrast in a modern kitchen

and a delicate ribbon crest

with thick brass handles and copper rivets

Napoleon III Leather Correspondence Box adding depth and history tobote correspondance French Leather Correspondence Box Napolon III Period c. 18601880 A monogrammed desktop writing box in gold tooled Morocco leather, made to commission for a named individual. Kept on the writing desk of a cultivated French household, it organised the tools of correspondence paper, envelopes, sealing wax, pens for the social rituals that governed Second Empire life. Its form miniaturises the roll top desk into a portable object: a