Morning Light
We open the shutters before the city is fully awake. Pale morning light spills across the benches and makes every texture honest—grain, thread, steel. Someone puts on coffee, someone else lays out patterns. The wood remembers our years; we’ve been making footwear since 1983, and the room carries that memory quietly.
Design begins as a conversation about proportion and the way a foot wants to move. A line becomes a shape, then a pattern coaxed by millimeters until panels meet without argument. Nothing showy—just a blueprint that respects both the body and the street. Leather follows. We lift each hide into the light, studying grain and color depth, mapping cuts so the strongest parts hold what strains and the most beautiful surfaces land where eyes linger. Every pair is deliberately made this way, with a steady respect for the environment and for design.
Stitch by Stitch
Machines hum, but hands lead. Thread is chosen like punctuation—light enough to read as a line, strong enough to last a life. Edges are skived so seams lie flat; reinforcements disappear inside the upper, waiting to prove their worth a year from now. Each piece is checked as if it were the only one we’ll ever make.
Fit has the last word. We pull each upper over the last and the shoe finds its stance: the heel sits secure, the instep breathes, the toe doesn’t rush the ground. We let the leather rest to learn its new form without tension. Then come sole and edge—the parts that translate design into motion. We choose compounds for the life the pair will live, sand and burnish edges into a clean line, and test the roll from heel to toe until the stride feels quiet and sure.
Care for the Long Run
Finishing is gentle. Footbeds nest in, linings settle, hardware is set by hand. Laces are measured for proportion, not just length. We brush, we polish, and then we pause—time for the shoe to relax into itself. Working in small batches lets us listen: if a leather arrives a touch firmer, we adjust; if a size run needs more room at the forefoot, we tune the last before a single box leaves. We know whose hands cut, stitched, and finished your pair, because accountability is a form of care.
Great footwear is a collaboration with the wearer. Brush off dust, avoid heat when drying, condition sparingly when the leather feels dry, and rotate pairs so they can breathe. If a repair is needed, do it early; longevity is the most elegant kind of sustainability. And when you finally lace up, all the work disappears and only the feeling remains—this is how a pair comes to life here, in the quiet of the atelier.
