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What Lambskin Nappa Is, and Why We Use It for Handbags

The leather we work in almost exclusively, and the reasons it is the harder choice. Nappa is one of the most used words in leather and one of the least defined. It appears on a two-hundred-euro bag...

Aurea Malachite, and the Case for a Green That Commits

Most greens in leather are arrived at by mixing and carry the evidence of it, drifting toward olive when the yellow has the upper hand and toward teal when the blue does, and the result is a colo...

Aurea Clutches for Weddings: Crème Royale and Oyster

The two palest shades in the collection, and what each of them does in strong daylight. A wedding asks more of a bag than almost any other occasion, partly because it is photographed continuousl...

Choosing a Colour You Will Still Want in Twenty Years

What changes across two decades is rarely the colour, and almost always the appetite for it. A well-made leather colour does not fail in any meaningful sense. Dyed through the skin rather than p...

Black After Dark: Champagne and Platinum as Alternatives

Black is the correct answer to most evening questions, which is precisely why it is the automatic one. Caviar is the shade this collection began with and the one every other was judged against, a...

A Leather Skincare Case, and the Decisions Behind It

Skincare is, for a great many people, the most considered category they buy. Formulas are chosen slowly, kept properly, replaced deliberately. The object that carries them tends to be decided in an...