Our leather

Two structures, seven different colors, seasonal special editions - rarely do you find so many options when choosing leather for your new favorite accessory. Each of these decisions has one thing in common: you are investing in a material that not only looks beautiful and feels great, but will also accompany you faithfully for many years.

Leather is a fascinating material.

It is durable and tear-resistant, but at the same time soft and has a wide range of uses thanks to the many finishing options.

BUT: Not all leather is the same!

Even leather that appears to be the same can vary greatly in quality, origin, ease of processing and durability. That's why we didn't take the decision to choose a leather supplier lightly and did a lot of research. Here you can find all the details about the leather we chose and the options we offer in our standard collection.

Origin

We source our chrome-tanned cowhide from a tannery in Veneto (Northern Italy) that has been based in Italy's "leather district" for more than 60 years. The Vicenza region is home to more than 1,000 tanneries and suppliers to the leather industry, making this area a real center with a lot of know-how and innovation, but also centuries of tradition - including short delivery routes for the products needed in the tanning process.

Both of our available leather structures, our smooth leather and our grain leather, are produced there and the tannery makes great efforts to use innovative methods to make the tanning process particularly sustainable and resource-efficient. You can read about exactly what these measures are in the “Sustainability” section.

And where does the tannery get the hides from?

The hides for the smooth leather come from North America, where the cattle are bred and kept on farms for the food industry. The hides for the grained leather come from South America. Our tannery takes care to only source hides from South American suppliers who use pastureland for which the Amazon rainforest has not been cleared.

Why the difference in the origin of the skins?

Due to the type of tanning and further processing, hides that have multiple scratches, scars or mosquito bites, which are caused by the natural way the cattle are kept in South America, can also be used for the grained leather. In the industry, these hides are called B-grade or C-grade. This does not mean that they are of lower quality, but they have more areas that have small blemishes that would still be visible on a smooth leather hide even after the tanning and surface treatment process.

During the manufacturing process of grained leather, these imperfections can be smoothed out and are no longer visible, which is why it is not necessary to use A-grade hides. Accordingly, for some of our products with high leather consumption, there is also a price difference when choosing between smooth and grain leather. Since there are fewer A-grade hides on the market and they are more expensive to buy, the prices for smooth leather adjust accordingly.

All our leathers from the standard collection have one thing in common:
The cattle were not bred specifically for leather production, but are a byproduct of the food industry.