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Portraits

Vintage-style illustration of an airship flying above Rio de Janeiro as travellers watch from a terrace.

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Portraits

The people whose ideas became the places, rituals and possibilities of modern travel.

Vintage-style illustration of an airship flying above Rio de Janeiro as travellers watch from a terrace.
Graphite portrait of Juan Trippe at a 1930s flying-boat harbour, with a Martin M-130 receding behind his right shoulder.Juan Trippe: The World, Measured with StringJuan Trippe saw routes before airplanes: how Pan Am turned international flight from an expedition for the few into infrastructure for everyone.Read the story → Graphite portrait of Wally Byam in a dark beret, with a riveted aluminium Airstream trailer receding behind his right shoulder.Wally Byam: The House That Learned to TravelWally Byam turned the travel trailer into something larger: a room, a community and the confidence to stay where tourism infrastructure had not yet arrived.Read the story → Graphite portrait of Louis Vuitton in a dark coat and bow tie, with a flat grey trunk receding behind his right shoulder.Louis Vuitton: The Geometry of TravelLouis Vuitton made the travel trunk lighter, weather-resistant and stackable—an industrial intervention that changed how luxury moved through the modern world.Read the story →