Globe-Trotter turns its heritage trunks into a luxury home storage piece

Globe-Trotter has taken the idea of a heritage trunk and turned it into something far more intimate: a £3,995 home storage piece made to order in England. The Steamer Home Trunk is designed for interiors, not airports, and it arrives with the kind of details that make a gift feel permanent rather than fleeting, including a removable wooden tray, signature color pairings and a format meant to hold keepsakes, books, travel memorabilia or personal treasures.

The new piece is rooted in the early twentieth-century steamer trunks that helped build Globe-Trotter’s identity, when durability and generous capacity mattered as much as appearance. That history is not decorative background here. Globe-Trotter says the launch extends more than 129 years of British travel heritage, with the company established in 1897 and production still carried out by hand in England. The result is less storage furniture than a commemorative object, the sort of trunk that can mark a wedding, an anniversary, a housewarming or a major client milestone without feeling transactional.

The craftsmanship story also carries over from Globe-Trotter’s luggage. The brand says each suitcase in its Crafted Collection is made entirely by hand in England in 10 days and 98 precise steps, and that the same handmade approach underpins the home trunk. Its long-standing use of vulcanised fibreboard remains central to the brand’s identity, reinforcing the sense that this is not a fashion-season experiment but an extension of a signature material language. For a luxury gift, that matters: the value sits in the workmanship, not just the name.

At Globe-Trotter’s Hertfordshire factory, restorations manager Joe Galea said traditional processes remain at the heart of the new trunks, even as the company makes only minor adjustments for efficiency today. He described the launch as a “full circle” moment between past and present. The collection’s colorways, Marmalade, Navy, Green and Oxblood, keep the brand’s familiar palette in view while the narrative-driven interior linings add a private, personal layer. In a market full of polished decorative objects, the Steamer Home Trunk stands out because it behaves like an heirloom from the moment it leaves the workshop.