I received an email this morning from Jean-Luc Marcoux, the CEO and Chief Relic Hunter of EverQuest Design, a company that takes actual fabric relics from various events and expeditions and turns them into laptop and messenger bags. Ingenious!

For instance, there are bags made from the actual parachute used for the landing of the Soyuz TM-8 MIR Space Mission. This is the Soyuz City Bag style, there is also a Soyuz PowerBook Laptop bag.

Other bag collections are made from expeditions and events including:

A collection of bags made from the sail of the Couragous, the 1974 & 1977 America’s Cup winner. Once again, this is the City bag style, and there is also a laptop bag style.

There are bags made from the International Space Station Soyuz TMA-3 Space Mission‘s landing parachute…

The ones I really like are from the collection that uses a tent from the 2005 Mount Everest Expedition.

Each bag is unique, comes with a certificate of authenticity, and is guaranteed (by me-ha!) to be a conversation stater.

Here is more information about the collection from the Everquest Design “Our Story” page:

When we founded EverQuest Design, we gave our team one objective; to search for famous materials and relics and bring a piece of history to our customers in a product they can use everyday. We wanted to create products that were interesting and unique. We wanted to build a concept-product based on the story of an event rather than around the product itself.

The story behind the product is really what EverQuest is all about: the story of the Soyuz TM-8 landing, the America’s Cup Courageous victory or Mount Everest expeditions. This is not about a brand of bags but rather about a piece of history and adventure. This is a bag with personality; meaningful to you and maybe significant for humankind (as a relic!!).

EverQuest Design is focused on the story behind the product, not the brand. We stand for the quest of our team to find significant relics and artifacts. We believe in a meaningful product that speaks to you. We believe in a high quality product that expresses our commitment to bring something different to our customers. We travel the world to find relics. We design products that can withstand the abuse of travel while also being unique.

EverQuest Design is a concept, a name to identify our belief in the search for meaningful products. This is also about the story of the explorers, the cosmonauts. It is about the physical, technical and technological challenges that brought us these relics. All our bags are made with AUTHENTIC material. This is what we live for, our mission. Every bag comes with a certificate of authentication signed from a direct participant in the event. In the case of the Space Series, it is the Russian cosmonaut who flew in the capsule and brought the parachute to us. We guarantee the authenticity of every item.