Water Lilies Tote bag (US/EU)

A spacious and trendy tote bag to help you carry around everything that matters. Help to reduce the use of single-use plastic bags that are polluting our oceans and be sustainable in style! 

• Printed, cut, hand-sewn, and ships from both USA and EU!
• Dual handles 100% natural cotton bull denim = No painful digging into your hands or shoulders from thin flimsy straps and made to last for a long long time!
• Handle length 11.8" (30 cm), width 1" (2.5cm) = long enough to comfortably put over your shoulder
• Available in one size: 15x15in with a capacity of 2.6 US gal (10l), with a maximum weight limit of 44lbs (20kg) = sturdy enough to hold all your groceries!
• 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).
• Looking for a bigger size? Check our matching beach bag here!
• Want to match your face mask to your tote while running errands, we got you covered!

"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 catalogue), 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