Our leather
Two textures, seven different colors, seasonal special editions - there are rarely so many options when choosing leather for your new favorite accessory. Each of these choices 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 to come.
Leather is a fascinating material.
It is durable and tear-resistant, but at the same time soft and very versatile thanks to the many finishing options.
BUT: not all leather is the same!
Even leather that looks the same can vary greatly in terms of quality, origin, ease of processing and durability. That's why we didn't make the decision for a leather supplier easy for ourselves 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), which has been based in the "leather district" of Italy 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 of know-how and innovation, but also centuries of tradition - including short delivery routes for supplier products needed in the tanning process.
Both of our available leather structures, our smooth leather "smooth" and our grained leather "grain", are produced there and the tannery makes great efforts to work in a particularly sustainable and resource-saving manner during the tanning process using innovative methods. You can find out 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 source only 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 hides?
Due to the type of tanning and further processing, hides with several scratches, scars or mosquito bites can also be used for the grained leather, which are caused by the natural husbandry of cattle in South America. 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 with small blemishes that would still be visible on a smooth leather hide even after the tanning and surface treatment process.
During the production process of the grained leather, these flaws can be compensated for and are no longer visible, which is why it would not be 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. As there are fewer A-grade hides on the market and they are more expensive to buy, the prices for smooth leather are adjusted 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 by-product of the food industry.
