Leonardo da Vinci left behind countless drawings and sketches for myriad of devices. He dreamed up schematics for machinery, transportation, flight, and apparently… women’s handbags. In fact, he sketched a design of a purse in the Codex Atlanticus (one of many collections of his notes and drawings). Fashion company Ghrardini has translated that design into a beautiful leather purse.
“While the shape recalls the lectern in “The Annunciation,” painted by Leonardo in the workshop of Verrocchio, its patterns feature rotating spirals and floral motifs, scrolls and foliage in metamorphosis,” Vezzosi said.
Boasting a unique closing system, the bag was designed at the end of Leonardo’s first Milanese period, around 1497. At that time, the artist was painting the tapestries in the Last Supper and knots designs in the Sala delle Asse in the Castello Sforzesco.”
See a video illustrating the creation of the exclusive piece after the break.
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Well, you would probably get grandiose plans for a steam-powered Android mascot—but the final product would never materialize. And the paintings Google would commission for logo changes on holidays and special occasions would be beautiful, but perpetually late.
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If Ben Franklin were alive today, he would probably say that there are three things you can count on: death, taxes and Kiss merchandise. There’s been Kiss themed pencils, baseballs, coffins, memo pads, shot glasses, ashtrays, action figures, Halloween costumes, jewelry and glow in the dark cups to name a few, but you probably couldn’t draw a line between Leonardo Da Vinci and Gene Simmons… Until now, that is.
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Leonardo’s backwards writing or “mirror writing” has often been mistaken for code—meaning he had something to hide. However, the most likely reason for the backwards writing is that Leonardo was left handed and preferred to pull a pen as opposed to pushing it across the page (to prevent smudging). Like the writing in his notebooks, this watch does everything backwards—the numbers and the hands move counterclockwise.
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We all know da Vinci was one of the greatest artists and tinkerers of all time—is this t-shirt proof that he was really trying to build a robot to take out John Connor mankind?
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