The Life Inside A Chest

Old furniture storage solutions - similar resource site - boxes aren’t just wooden boxes. They’re time capsules. Before cheap mass storage appeared, trunks were the way people travelled. Built solid, heavy duty, sometimes decorated with brass corners or painted lettering.

When I first stumbled across the circus clown trunk, I just stared. The red-nosed clown staring upside down across the front felt like more than decoration. It felt like a piece of a lost world — an old fairground life.

The funny thing is, even though this trunk looks beat-up, 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.

I still think about 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 vintage trunk the show to begin.