Water Lilies Beach Bag (US/EU)

A trendy beach bag, where you can put everything that matters when hitting those warm beaches. With a handy inside pocket to keep the important things within easy reach, and save you from the hassle of having to dig around the bottom of your bag.

• Printed, cut, hand-sewn, and ships from both USA and EU!
• Large inside pocket = Keep your keys and wallet within easy reach and keep them from scratching up the rest of your belongings.
• Comfortable cotton webbing handles = No painful digging into your hands or shoulders from thin flimsy straps and made to last for a long long time! 
• Vibrant colors that won't fade = Take it from the beach, to the office, to the grocery store or use it as a weekender bag!
• 100% spun polyester fabric = resistant to water, mold-mildew and crinkling, highly compact when folded, break-even your single-use plastic bag usage after 14 uses (vs. 173 uses with cotton).
• Available in one size: 16x20in with a capacity of 4.4 US gal (17.8l) and a maximum weight limit of 44lbs (20kg) = Perfect to fit all your belongings, like your matching beach towel
• Looking for a smaller size? Check our matching 15x15in tote bag

"By 1890, Monet had become financially successful enough to buy the house and large garden at Giverny, which he had rented since 1883. With enormous vigour and determination, he swiftly set about transforming the gardens and creating a large pond. Once the garden was designed according to the artist’s vision, it offered a boundless source of inspiration, and provided the major themes that dominated the last three decades of Monet’s career. Towards the end of his life, he obfuscated his initial intentions, perhaps with a mind to his own mythology, telling a visitor to his studio: "It took me some time to understand my water lilies. I planted them purely for pleasure; I grew them with no thought of painting them. A landscape takes more than a day to get under your skin. And then, all at once I had the revelation – how wonderful my pond was – and reached for my palette. I’ve hardly had any other subject since that moment" (quoted in Stephan Koja, Claude Monet (exhibition catalog), Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, 1996, p. 146).

Once discovered, the subject of water lilies offered a wealth of inspiration that Monet went on to explore for several decades. His carefully designed garden presented the artist with a micro-cosmos in which he could observe and paint the changes in weather, season and time of day, as well as the ever-changing colors and patterns. John House wrote: "The water garden in a sense bypassed Monet’s long searches of earlier years for a suitable subject to paint. Designed and constantly supervised by the artist himself, and tended by several gardeners, it offered him a motif that was at the same time natural and at his own command - nature re-designed by a temperament. Once again Monet stressed that his real subject when he painted was the light and weather" (J. House, Monet: Nature into Art, Newhaven, 1986, p. 31)."

Artist: Claude Monet | Designer: Sabai Beauty