Reed & Ribbon / The Louis XVI-era Reed & Ribbon collection features elegantly proportioned bundles of reed bound by crossed ribbons, culminated in delicate florets and acanthus leaves. This bundled motif began as the "fasces" in Etruscan and Roman designs, a bundle of rods tied around an axe as a symbol of authority and power, but was reinterpreted over time as a bundle of reeds representing strength through unity.