“smaller-than-a-grain-of-salt”:-the-world's-smallest-bag-is-sold-for-$63,000


In social networks, the sale made by a design company, called the MSCHF group, based in Brooklyn, has attracted a lot of attention, who have obtained $63,000 dollars with the smallest bag in the world.

As it turns out, this tote bag, which is barely visible to the naked eye, measuring just 0.65 by 0.22 by 0.7 millimeters (or less than 0.03 inches wide) and is based in a popular design of the famous Louis Vuitton brand, it was auctioned and someone acquired it for that amount of money.

The fluorescent yellow-green bag is small enough to pass through the eye of a needle and, according to its creators, much smaller than a grain of sea salt.

This curious object was made using 2-photon polymerization, a manufacturing technology used to 3D print microscale plastic parts. In addition, it was sold with a microscope equipped with a digital screen so that you can see the bag in detail.

The bag has the well-known LV logo on one side and appears to be a replica of its “OnTheGo” handbag, which sells for between $3,100 and $4,300.

The auction of the small piece was organized by the Joopiter house, which is owned by the American musician, record producer and designer Pharrell Williams, and who currently serves as creative director of men’s fashion for the famous French design house.

Regarding the curious piece, its creators declared the following, through a statement: “The previous small leather bags required a hand to carry them, they became dysfunctional, inconvenient for their ‘carrier’. The Microscopic Bag takes this to its logical conclusion. A practical object is reduced to a jewel, all its putative function evaporates; for luxury items, usability is the part of the angels.”

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By Scribe