FOLDED TOTE → APPARITION LEATHER

Made from Apparition, a translucent leather developed by Ecco Leather through a process that combines oils and glycerin to revisit ancient tanning techniques. The material is still in a prototypical phase: difficult to sew, impossible to glue, and highly sensitive to manipulation. This bag explores its limits.

Cut from a single rectangle and assembled without seams, adhesives or stitching, it uses no construction beyond the material itself. Inspired by furoshiki, the object is held together by tension alone. Intervention is kept to a bare minimum, letting the constraints of the leather dictate both process and form.

Developed after a visit to ECCO Leather Tannery in the Netherlands.

2023 — Designed for ECCO LEATHER