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Wallpaper* Handmade: The Products

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A few weeks after taking a tour of the ‘Wallpaper* Handmade…in Italy’ exhibition in Milan in April, Pierre-Alexis Dumas, artistic director of Hermès, shipped us an orange box. Inside was this unsolicited addition to the Handmade issue. With the company’s usual dedication to handmade perfection, fawn coloured Barènia calfskin was hand cut, and its edges first rounded with a heated tool, then sanded and coated with a dye before being polished with beeswax. Holes were marked out with a pricking iron before the two pieces of leather were hand saddle-stitched together, with an awl to pierce them, a pair of needles, more beeswax and linen thread.

Photograph by Andy Barter

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