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TOSCANA · FIRENZE · ITALY
“Master leather artisan working from a Renaissance-era workshop in the Oltrarno district of Florence. Giovanni's meticulous saddle-stitching and hand-dyeing techniques produce leather goods of extraordinary refinement — pieces that improve with every year of use.”
THE STORY
Florence has been synonymous with fine leather since the guilds of the 13th century. Giovanni Ferretti carries this legacy forward from his workshop in the Oltrarno — the artisan quarter across the Arno where Florentine craft traditions have survived centuries of change.
Giovanni apprenticed under his uncle, a pellettiere who supplied leather goods to the great Florentine fashion houses. By twenty-five, Giovanni had opened his own bottega, determined to create pieces that would last not years but decades.
Every piece starts with vegetable-tanned leather from the last remaining tanneries in Santa Croce. Giovanni selects each hide personally, examining the grain, testing the hand, and rejecting anything that doesn't meet his standard. The leather is then hand-dyed in his workshop using aniline dyes that allow the natural grain to show through.
Giovanni's signature technique is the punto selleria — the Italian saddle stitch. Using two needles and waxed linen thread, each stitch is pulled tight by hand. If a thread ever breaks, the remaining stitches hold. A machine cannot replicate this. It is slower, it is more demanding, and it is permanent.
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