Chapter Index — MMXXIV
The Collection
Four chapters. Eighty-one numbered pieces. Each batch capped at two hundred — no design released more than once in a season.
I. BagsII. JournalsIII. Travel GoodsIV. Small Leather
Begin at Chapter I
Chapter I
Bags
Cut from a single lot of vegetable-tanned Tuscan hide, saddle-stitched at seven stitches per inch in waxed Fil au Chinois linen — every bag passes through one bench from cut to final burnish.
Bench Note — 14 hours
Each piece in this chapter consumes fourteen hours of bench time on average. The handles are turned, edged, and saddle-stitched by the same artisan whose initials will sit inside the lining. There is no production line. There is one bench, one maker, one piece at a time.
Chapter II
Journals
Two hundred and one hundred and fifty GSM cotton paper, edge-burnished in three coats of beeswax, bound in vegetable-tanned Tuscan hide. Each journal carries the maker's monogram heat-stamped on the inside back lining.
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Maker — Marta L., 26 years at the bench
The Correspondent
No. 009 / Ed. 150
€ 420
A4, 192 pages of 201 GSM cotton. Edge-burnished by hand. Stamped with M. L. inside the back lining.
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Maker — António R., 31 years at the bench
Pocket Repertoire
No. 033 / Ed. 200
€ 280
B6, 128 pages of 150 GSM cotton. Bound and burnished by a single hand. Stamped with A. R. inside.
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Provenance
On the batch of two hundred.
Every Flapierre piece is hand-finished end-to-end by one named artisan, whose monogram is heat-stamped inside the lining. Each design is released in a single batch of two hundred or fewer, and every numbered piece is traceable — to the artisan, to the bench, and to the hide lot — in our public craft archive, opened in 2019 and the first of its kind in the trade.
We have not changed this practice since 1998. We do not intend to. A piece that takes fourteen hours of handwork and arrives with one maker's initials deserves the same scrutiny in its second decade as in its first — and that is why we operate a lifetime restoration programme, returning any Flapierre piece, regardless of age, to its original artisan for repair at cost. The archive makes that promise auditable.
— Flapierre Atelier Lda., Porto, since 1998
Chapters III & IV
Travel & Small Leather
Vegetable-tanned at the consortium we have worked with since 1998. Edge-burnished, saddle-stitched, and gift-boxed in unbleached cotton. The pieces that round out a considered wardrobe — and typically close the basket.
The Considered Acquisition
Place a piece on hold with the atelier.
No one-click checkout. We hold a piece against your name for seventy-two hours while we confirm the maker's bench, post a hand-written provenance card, and arrange tracked shipment in a reusable cotton dust bag.
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