Lighthouse Lab · Feature
Grand Terrain 45 – exclusive design meets tactical function.
Somewhere between the aircraft door, the car, the tender and the hotel lobby, most travel bags fail. Either they carry well and look like equipment, or they look beautiful and give up after the first long day.
Pharovant starts from that gap. Its first product, Grand Terrain 45, is a travel backpack of 45 litres, expandable to around 55, built on the idea that a truly exclusive object has to earn its place through function first. The carry system comes before the leather, the structure before the embroidery.
Only then does design take over: technical textiles with a ballistic hand, full-grain leather where hands and shoulders touch the bag, quiet hardware and embroidery that tells a story. Each piece is numbered, signed and accompanied by a product passport – made in small editions rather than collections.
The project is being developed in the Lighthouse Lab, where we take ideas from the first sketch to a product that can be built, sold and defended. This page tells the story of where Grand Terrain stands today.
The heart of Grand Terrain is a professional, field-proven carry architecture: an adjustable carrier plate, wide shoulder pads, a detachable hip belt, a chest strap, load lifters and compression straps. It is the part of the bag nobody photographs – and the reason it will still feel right after a full day on the move.
Around that core, four building blocks turn a technical pack into an object you want to keep for years.
Designed to be built on a proven professional carry platform. Load sits close to the body, weight moves to the hips, and the bag stays calm whether it is full or half empty.
Ballistic technical textile with a reinforced base and water-resistant zips. Full-grain automotive- or marine-grade leather only where it matters: on the lid, the handle and the contact zones.
Cubes for tech, wardrobe and wet gear, a sleeve for laptop and documents, removable dividers and a rain cover. One system for the weekend, the boardroom and the boat.
Hand-finished embroidery, a metal edition number, a signature and a product passport. Every edition is genuinely limited – once it is gone, it is gone.
“Luggage should feel like part of the journey, not like something you carry through it.”Design principle · Pharovant
Every edition shares the same Grand Terrain 45 platform. What changes is the story: the colour of the textile, the character of the leather, the motif of the embroidery. Some editions are made for night drives and city arrivals, others for decks, coastlines and the island we call home.
Founders’ prototype · 01/01
The first piece and the signature of Lighthouse Projects International. Navy and ivory, a lighthouse embroidered in gold thread, a presentation box and a founders’ design passport – the reference every later edition is measured against.
New · vehicle-matched commission
Silver-grey technical textile, burnt orange leather with a croc-embossed front panel, chrome piping between the two tones and a quilted suede harness. Argent Ember is the first study for our commission programme: a bag that picks up the colours, leathers and stitching of a client’s bespoke vehicle interior, so that luggage and car read as one piece.
Automotive · night travel
Black on black, broken only by a feather in gold embroidery. Made for owners of bespoke vehicles, late arrivals and anyone who prefers to be noticed only up close.
Yacht · coast
Deep blue with whale, coral and compass motifs. Built for salt air and wet decks – from the yacht to the tender, and on to a shore excursion.
Lighthouse Projects Mallorca
The island as embroidery: its coastline, almond blossom and olive green, paired with cognac leather. A love letter to the place where the project began.
Lighthouse Projects Mallorca
Mountain and sea, conceived as a pair: the green of the Serra de Tramuntana and the ivory of the Mediterranean in spring.
Resort · second home
Teal with cognac leather and hibiscus embroidery for days between flight, villa and beach – and its quiet counterpart Obsidian, tonal flowers on black for the business side of travel.
Beyond the first editions, three larger series are being explored – each one a journey told across several bags.
All images are design visualisations of the concept. Final materials, details and colourways will be defined with the manufacturing partner.
Grand Terrain is not made for luxury buyers in general. It is made for people with a recurring mobility context – people who move between car, aircraft, yacht and hotel several times a month and notice every detail that works, or does not.
That is why Mallorca, yachting and boutique hospitality are the natural first market: a small, connected world where quality is recognised and recommended.
Luggage that continues the interior – the same leather, the same colour story.
Room for wet gear and salt water, with an elegant presence on deck and ashore.
One bag for the flight, the car, the hotel and the beach.
One-of-one pieces with signature, passport and a story of their own.
Secure, modular organisation for equipment that has to travel well.
Tech, documents and a change of clothes, ready for the next arrival.
There will be no broad collection at the start. Grand Terrain grows in five deliberate steps, and each one ends with a clear decision: go on, or change course.
A partner workshop under NDA, the choice of carry platform, material samples, a first bill of materials and a legal and IP review.
A function sample and a show sample, followed by carry tests and a test plan for salt water, UV light and abrasion.
Twenty to forty curated conversations in showrooms, marinas and hotels – to measure real willingness to buy, not likes.
Twenty-five numbered pieces, sold by appointment, with most of the run reserved before production begins.
A 100-piece edition or a one-of-one commission programme – chosen on the basis of real margins and real feedback.
Partner with us
We are looking for a carry-system manufacturer as licensing and production partner, leather and embroidery ateliers, a European manufacturer, and showrooms, marinas and hotels for private previews. Collectors are welcome to register their interest in the Founders’ Edition.
info@lighthouseprojectsinternational.com