Since 2019
We make a small number of things, slowly, and then we look after them.
Why the atelier exists
Veranne began with a returned bag. A friend sent back a tote she had carried for two years because a strap had torn, and the brand that made it offered a discount code instead of a repair.
That exchange described an entire industry: objects made to be replaced, priced as if they were made to be kept. We started with a single question — what would a bag look like if it were designed for its fifth year rather than its first photograph?
The answer turned out to be thicker leather, no lining, one maker per piece and a lifetime of repairs. It turned out to be more expensive to make and less expensive to own. Everything the atelier has drawn since has followed the same logic, whether it is a cashmere rib, a stoneware carafe or a signet cast in solid gold.
Four commitments
01
Materials that improve
We only work with materials that are more interesting in year five than in week one — vegetable-tanned leather, long-staple cashmere, high-fired stoneware, solid gold.
02
Runs small enough to correct
Between forty and four hundred pieces. Small enough that a maker notices a problem, and that we can redraw the pattern before the next run.
03
Makers we can name
Four workshops across Portugal, Italy and Japan. We visit each of them twice a year and pay for samples that fail.
04
Repairs before replacements
Restitching, re-edging, re-blocking and re-brushing are offered for the life of the piece. A repaired object is the point of the exercise.
Four workshops,
three countries
- Alentejo, Portugal
- Leather. Six benches, one maker per bag, hides from a Tuscan tannery that still uses pit tanning.
- Biella, Italy
- Knitwear. A family mill with soft Alpine water, which is why our cashmere blooms after washing.
- Uji, Japan
- Stoneware. A converted rice barn, one kick wheel and a kiln whose own ash becomes our glaze.
- Grasse, France
- Fragrance. Fourteen months of iterations to get iris to sit under smoke.
The signature pieces
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A note on this website
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