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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Golf ball pouch
Regular price $120Regular priceSale price $120Vendor:Cellerini -
Leather travel bag
Regular price $3,400Regular priceSale price $3,400Vendor:Cellerini -
Bauhaus 1919-2019
Regular price $950Regular priceSale price $950Vendor:Cabaret Typographie -
Classic leather valet tray
Regular price From $260Regular priceSale price From $260Vendor:Cellerini -
Parole in libertà
Regular price $850Regular priceSale price $850Vendor:Cabaret Typographie -
Leather mousepad
Regular price $180Regular priceSale price $180Vendor:Cellerini -
Al bar Negroni Sbagliato l'aperitivo di Milano
Regular price $850Regular priceSale price $850Vendor:Cabaret Typographie -
La cucina futurista
Regular price $850Regular priceSale price $850Vendor:Cabaret Typographie -
Presi il bitter Campari tra le nuvole
Regular price $950Regular priceSale price $950Vendor:Cabaret Typographie -
Se la pioggia fosse di bitter campari
Regular price $850Regular priceSale price $850Vendor:Cabaret Typographie -
Tee holder
Regular price $140Regular priceSale price $140Vendor:Cellerini -
Leather travel bag (buckle)
Regular price $2,900Regular priceSale price $2,900Vendor:Cellerini -
Leather toiletry bag
Regular price $320Regular priceSale price $320Vendor:Cellerini -
Leather Passport Holder
Regular price $260Regular priceSale price $260Vendor:Cellerini -
Apron: L'Huitre
Regular price $90Regular priceSale price $90Vendor:Varek -
Poster: La Dorade Royale
Regular price $180Regular priceSale price $180Vendor:Varek -
Apron: Les Sardines
Regular price $90Regular priceSale price $90Vendor:Varek -
Apron: Le Tourteau
Regular price $90Regular priceSale price $90Vendor:Varek -
Almond Oil Shaving Cream
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.