Leather that outlives its owner
Bags, belts and wallets cut from vegetable-tanned leather and saddle-stitched by hand, by the two of us, at one bench in Florence.
Two pairs of hands. One hide, one bag at a time.
No factory, no machine seams, no shortcuts. Every piece is cut, stitched and finished at the same walnut bench in Via Maggio, and signed inside by the one who sewed it.
From the bench
This season's pieces
Each comes in two or three colours of the same leather, in small numbers. When a colour is gone, we cut a new hide.
Four hundred metres from the Ponte Vecchio
Our window opens on Via Maggio, in the Oltrarno: the quarter of Florence where bookbinders, gilders and saddlers have worked for five centuries.
What we promise
Sewn into every piece
Vegetable-tanned leather
Forty days in chestnut and oak bark at a family tannery in Santa Croce sull'Arno. A leather that darkens and softens with you.
Saddle-stitched by hand
Two needles, one waxed linen thread: a seam that holds even if a stitch breaks.
Your initials
Blind-embossed or in gold foil, pressed with heated brass type. From €15.
Free repairs for life
Seams, edges, handles, buckles: send it back, we mend it, free, for as long as it lasts.
Edges finished by hand
Bevelled, dyed and burnished with beeswax until they shine like glass.
Journal
Notes from Via Maggio
The saddle stitch: why a hand seam outlives the bag
Two needles, one waxed linen thread, and a seam that will not unravel even if a stitch breaks. A short guide to the stit...
Why we only use vegetable-tanned leather
Forty days in oak and chestnut bark instead of a few hours in chromium salts: what vegetable tanning changes in the leat...
Repaired free, for as long as it lasts
A seam that opens in ten years, a handle worn through after twenty: send it back to Florence and we mend it by hand, in the same holes, at no cost.