Travel
7 min
A week in Fermo, for the curious
Where we eat, where we walk, and how to book a morning in the workshop.
Fermo sits on a hill twenty minutes from the Adriatic, which means mornings in the old town and afternoons at the sea. It is also the centre of a region that has made shoes and bags for three hundred years.
Workshop visits run Tuesday to Saturday, by appointment, for groups of up to four. You will see a hide go from grey to finished and, if you time it right, a satchel go into the bath.
For lunch, walk down to the piazza and follow the smell of fried olives. For the rest, ask whoever shows you round; everyone in the workshop has a list.
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Workshop
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Most houses buy leather already coloured. We buy it grey, and here is what that changes.
Collection
4 min
Six windows, six colours: notes on the AW26 baths
Pistachio, Oxblood, Saffron, Lilac, Tobacco and Chalk, and why there are only six.
Workshop
6 min
The round knife is older than the house
On the tools we use every day and the ones we have never replaced.