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In 2018 Mark came to spend two months in New York so we could be together and we lived on Avenue C in a tiny apartment. He decided not to bring his knives and usual tools as he had some nightmare experiences with the customs at JFK in the past. I ca
Hi, we're showing today the final phases of the Baluchon making: the braiding of the straps and the knot. I remember Mark started working on braiding leather back in NYC when we lived in the East Village. I'll share about how he came up with this te
Mark is working on a Baluchon commission and currently focusing on the straps. First he cut all the thongs by hand and then made a dozen small gestures including using a pasta machine (!) to compress them before sewing them to the body of the bag.
“On ne peut pas être au four et au moulin” - "One can’t be at the oven and at the mill."• Hi, this is Charlotte (@charlottedemezamat), I'm Mark’s partner and I've persuaded him to let me take over the @Tal
I'm phasing out my old US and UK numbers and shifting my primary contact to my new French phone number for messages, Whatsapp etc. If you have my old number but haven't yet received my new one please feel free to be in touch and I'll send the digits
A bit of a deep-dive. Another use for my beloved boxes (see previous post) is for storing various tools in the studio. Each box contains the tools related to one particular task: marking, cutting, stitching or, as pictured here, punching-out. At t
Notes for the Francophones. "After seven years in London and three in New York, the studio is now based in Paris. I have decided to keep the website in English as it best allows me to express myself. That said, though my french is rudimentary, I
Its fair to say I've something of an obsession with containers in all their various forms. Obviously bags are my first love but boxes come a close second. These old costume trunks were originally used by certain touring musicians and theatre groups
Thought it was time for a new apron. I made my old one about a decade ago - Its been chopped and changed over the years with the outline trimmed down as necessary and the straps amended. All those little changes get baked into the new version of cour
I'm spending some time refining my presentation kit - the various boxes that contain samples of my work along with the materials and tools that put these designs in context and help describe how they are crafted. I'm planning the most casual of prese
A #TallowinLake, in pattern, panel and final form. The first image shows one of the perspex patterns I use to mark the leather. The dark slot is aligned with the logo (previously embossed into the leather panel) to ensure that everything lines up p