Orient‑Express & Co — Éditions Textuel

Bound in violet cloth and mystery, Orient‑Express & Co opens like a sleeper car door into another time. This book gathers photographs, posters, and ephemera from the archives of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, revealing the golden age of transcontinental train travel in all its intimate grandeur.

Here, luxury is not just a style but a system: mirrored compartments, velvet banquettes, silver tea sets, workers in crisp uniforms behind the curtain of opulence. It’s a book that seduces through atmosphere — cinematic, suspended in time, and at moments, voyeuristic.

What drew me to it was not just the glamour, but the layered narrative beneath: the logistics of empire, the machinery of class, the poetry of departure. In Darwin, it lives among stories of subcultures and underworlds — because behind every luxury train is a world of shadows, sleepers, and motion.

Technical Sheet

• Object: Book
• Title: Orient‑Express & Co — Éditions Textuel
• Author / Editor: Eva Gravayat & Arthur Mettetal (archive direction)
• Date: 2020
• Technique / Printing Method: Offset printing
• Medium / Materials: Hardcover, clothbound with inlaid image
• Edition: First edition
• Dimensions: approx. 27 × 24.5 cm
• Language: French / English bilingual edition
• Pages: 160
• Publisher / Editor: Éditions Textuel
• ISBN: 9782845978232
• Condition: Excellent