Varon’s Old Storage Trunk: A London Tale Of Travel And Time

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I can’t forget when the circus came to town once a year. Posters glued to walls promised elephants, fire breathers, 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.

Trunks aren’t just containers. They’re pieces of history. Before suitcases rolled through airports, trunks were the way people travelled. Built solid, metal storage trunk heavy duty, sometimes decorated with brass corners or painted lettering.

When I first saw the art station circus clown trunk, 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.