China Seas Dopp Kit: Arbre de Matisse - Brown on Tint

In the 1960s, Billy Baldwin - the dean of American decorating - was designing a studio apartment for Woodson Taulbee on the Upper East Side. He found his inspiration in a Matisse brush-and-ink drawing: a single black tree silhouetted behind two women at a table. Baldwin asked his illustrator friend Jay Crawford to turn that tree into a repeating pattern. Crawford did. Taulbee, who ran Woodson Wallpapers, printed it on fabric and covered everything in the apartment - sofa, banquette, slipper chair. The room appeared in Vogue in 1965 and later on the cover of Billy Baldwin Decorates.
Crawford went on to found a textile company in 1969. He called it Quadrille. The tree is still in production. It has been hand screen-printed continuously for over half a century.
This is that tree. Brown on tinted Belgian linen / cotton - hand-printed in the USA.  The original colorway, the coffee-and-cream palette that started in a Manhattan studio apartment and ended up on curtains, walls, chairs, beds, and sofas in houses on five continents.

And now, a Dopp kit. With a brown leather zipper pull and water-resistant lining, because even a pattern with a pedigree from Matisse to Baldwin to Vogue needs to survive a carry-on.

second image is included for scale - it is a different pattern

$65. The tree has been traveling since the 1960s. Now it can travel with you - a piece of Quadrille’s founding mythology in a bag you can hold in one hand.