Collection: Man
This is less a category than a set of things chosen with one kind of recipient in mind - objects with a slightly wry edge, most of them small enough to give.
Antica Barbieria Colla supplies the grooming: beard oils, aftershave milks and the Almond Shampoo that Milan's oldest barbershop has made since 1924. Varek supplies the humour - enamelled trays and canvas aprons printed with lobster, langoustine and sardine, lifted from vintage French seafood packaging, plus a poster of the same recipe illustrations sized for a wall. Cellerini, the Florentine leather atelier on Via del Sole, contributes a mini tape measure in the same cross-grained calfskin as its passport holders - the kind of object that lives in a jacket pocket for years, not months. Beppe Giacobbe and Cabaret Typographie bring the print end: fine art portraits from a Milanese illustrator who has drawn for Corriere della Sera for decades, and letterpress prints from a Milan-Paris collective still working nineteenth-century presses by hand.
What ties it together isn't one material or maker but a register - dry wit and real craft, sized for a desk, a shelf or a coat pocket rather than a room.
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Sold outEnamelled Tray: The Langoustine
Regular price $90Regular priceSale price $90Vendor:VarekSold out -
Enamelled Tray: The Lobster
Regular price $90Regular priceSale price $90Vendor:Varek -
Enamelled Tray: Sardines
Regular price $180Regular priceSale price $180Vendor:Varek -
Extra strong fixing hair wax
Regular price $89Regular priceSale price $89Vendor:Antica Barbieria Colla -
Apron: Le Homard
Regular price $90Regular priceSale price $90Vendor:Varek -
Poster: La recette du Homard au Beurre d'Estragon
Regular price $260Regular priceSale price $260Vendor:Varek -
Red Sandalwood Aftershave Milk
Regular price $100Regular priceSale price $100Vendor:Antica Barbieria Colla -
Mini tape measure
Regular price $140Regular priceSale price $140Vendor:Cellerini -
Apron: Le Maquereau
Regular price $90Regular priceSale price $90Vendor:Varek -
Green Tobacco Aftershave Milk
Regular price $100Regular priceSale price $100Vendor:Antica Barbieria Colla -
Darkwood Beard Shampoo
Regular price $60Regular priceSale price $60Vendor:Antica Barbieria Colla -
Bitter Orange Beard Dry Oil
Regular price $120Regular priceSale price $120Vendor:Antica Barbieria Colla -
Sold outInfinito Stanza 55
Regular price $990Regular priceSale price $990Vendor:Beppe GiacobbeSold out -
Borealis Set Bottle and Tumblers
Regular price $850Regular priceSale price $850Vendor:NasonMoretti -
Mini Technicolour Table Lamp - Violet
Regular price $990Regular priceSale price $990Vendor:NasonMorettiSold out -
Contemporary leather valet tray
Regular price $360Regular priceSale price $360Vendor:Cellerini -
Enamelled Tray: The Mackeral
Regular price $180Regular priceSale price $180Vendor:Varek -
Poster: La recette des Moules Marinières
Regular price $260Regular priceSale price $260Vendor:Varek -
Poster: La recette des Sardines à la Provencale
Regular price $260Regular priceSale price $260Vendor:Varek -
Almond Oil Hard Shaving Soap
Regular price $79Regular priceSale price $79Vendor:Antica Barbieria Colla -
Shaving Bowl
Regular price $70Regular priceSale price $70Vendor:Antica Barbieria Colla -
Walnut Shampoo
Regular price $79Regular priceSale price $79Vendor:Antica Barbieria Colla -
Apricot Hull Aftershave
Regular price $120Regular priceSale price $120Vendor:Antica Barbieria Colla -
Almond Oil Aftershave Milk
Regular price $100Regular priceSale price $100Vendor:Antica Barbieria Colla
MAKER SPOTLIGHT
Fratelli Bonvini
Fratelli Bonvini has printed and made stationery in Milan since 1909 - notebooks, greeting cards, and artworks made on century-old presses, still in use. Exclusive to Australia.