CHANEL

Cosmetics Perfume Anecdotes Archives

copyright Geneviève Fontan

Ernest Beaux in his laboratory c.1920

Silver photo mounted on cardboard

In the foreground, Perfume No. 22 in its 1921 metal box

Ernest Beaux Interview

Coco Chanel Film Photography

United Press Photos 2 rue des Italiens Paris (9th)

cardboard presentation box

Box of 4 Bois des Iles bottles - No. 5 - No. 22 - Russian leather

Cardboard box Length 10 cm

Presentation

with packaging

Box with earpiece for Cuir de Russie 1937

Box height 7 cm

leather-covered presentation box

Cardboard covered with lambskin

Interior covered in satin

Box of 2 bottles (drawing 1924) No. 5 - Russian leather

Length 12 cm Width 4 cm

Box of 3 bottles (drawing 1924)

No. 5 - Russian Leather - Gardenia

Length 14.5 cm Width 2.5 cm

Glaçoide for the presentation of No. 5 (bottle design 1924)

19x26.5 cm Advertising easel sign 1/170 Year 1951

CHANEL

Document showing the evolution of the shape of the bottle

from its creation in 1921 until 1986

Pochet & Ducourval Glassworks

Bottle also called Malevich square in reference to the work of Kasimir Malevich for his suprematist composition created in 1918 representing a white square on a white background.

Document showing the evolution of the shape of the bottle with the appropriate label for each copy.

from its creation in 1921 until 1986

Archive bottle

CHANEL N°5

500ml bottle-container

Origin: old perfumery in the city of Murcia (Es) still in operation in the 1940s

touch-to-ear presentation for 5 fragrances

Chanel boudoir display

Plexiglass frame with rail and locking system. By rotating the right side part, access to the rail is locked. Reserve for the label L.11 cm Ht 9 cm

Position

open

Position

closed

presentation in a veneered wooden box

Exotic wood box and tuya magnifying glass

Interior covered in suede calfskin

The drop-down box is divided into compartments to hold one or more bottles

Box of 3 bottles (drawing 1924)

for Bois des Iles - No. 5 - No. 22 - Gardenia

Box length 16 cm

Box of 3 bottles

for Bois des Iles - No. 5 -

No. 22 - Gardenia

Box length 19 cm

Refillable beauty powder box

9.8 cm on each side

c1925

Box of 1 bottle (drawing 1924)

Bottle (drawing 1924) for No. 22

Length of box 9.8 cm

Box of 2 bottles

Box length 11 cm

Gabrielle Chanel during the presentation of the 1966 summer collection in Paris. UPI/S.TAVOULARIS & E.PA VANI - 19x12 cm silver photograph

For Men No. 46

In 1946, Gabrielle Chanel developed the idea of a men's perfume. At the time, men were perhaps unprepared—or even afraid—of the idea of wearing fragrances previously reserved for women.

No. 46, created in 1946, could be a men's fragrance.

CHANEL N°46

Press advertising

For Men

1946

Press Advertisement No. 46

Year 1946

Cologne

FOR SIR

c1945

Bakelite frame with chrome-plated brass spray system

Peccary-lined box Interior fitted for

contain a bulb sprayer

Length 10 cm Width 5.6 cm

presentation in natural wooden box

Natural exotic wood box

Presentation of CHANEL Beauty Powder for Bois des iles 1925

Inner powder cartridge made of cardboard lined with imitation wood paper.

General cubic shape 6 cm on each side 1925

Seat of the b box

Island Woods

Square-section bottle with cut-off shoulders.

Box height 11 cm Side width 5 cm

Back of the box

with engraved inscription

MM means Medium Model (probable)

Island Woods

Square-section bottle with cut-off shoulders.

Box height 7.5 cm Side width 3.5 cm

Seat of the box

with engraved inscription

MM means Very Small Model (likely)

Red

Lipstick Tube and Refills

Blackened steel lipstick tube with hinged lid and system for raising the lipstick.

Length 4 cm Diameter 1 cm

Red box 3.5 cm on each side

Advertising

4-page calendar 1937

Zippered box containing 6 samples of No. 5

Tubular shape with flag label Free

Box 5.4 x 3.7 cm

Powder Sample No. 5

Offered to customers to test the pleasure of perfuming themselves with No. 5

Miss Monique Beaujard, ambassador of Chanel perfumes in New York - showroom

Silver photo November 1966 - 20.2x25.5 cm

Heavy metal and Bakelite bottle display stand bearing the words "Offert par Chanel"

Powder and powder compacts Soap

Lacquered metal bag powder compact in its cream satin-lined box

Black calfskin cover Year 1937

7 cm on each side

Presentation box

Makeup box for the bag.

Cream lacquer on metal 4.4 cm

Scented powder No. 5 year 1937

Cardboard box with refillable powder cartridge

A protective fan with a 9.4 cm side pull tab

Scented powder with No. 5

Diameter 9cm

Seat of the box

Presentation of 3 toilet soaps scented with No. 5

for export Box length 18 cm

Box and ovoid-shaped soap wrapped in fine pleated paper, a lost skill.

c1925

Remarkable achievement of a collection of memories composed of photographs, letters, telegrams, envelopes,

Press office

Annie Girardot in a Chanel jacket

in the television film on November 14, 1965 "Maigret Sets a Trap" Universal Photo film photo

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