Leather mousepad
Leather mousepad
Cellerini
Cellerini has been making leather goods in a first-floor atelier on Via del Sole, in central Florence, since the late 1950s. Alongside the bags and small leather accessories that are the workshop's main work are a few quiet desk objects - and this is one of them.
A leather mousepad. A single rectangular panel of fine calfskin, smooth on the working surface so the mouse glides without resistance, hand-stitched at the edge, and made to lie flat on a desk. In time, the leather wears a faint, paler oval where the mouse most often sits - the kind of mark that comes from years of the same small motion.
It is a small piece of the workshop's leather kept on the surface where most of a working day is now spent.
Hand-cut and hand-stitched on the bench in Florence.
Exclusive to Australia.
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Product information
22 cm x 17.5cm
About Cellerini
Cellerini is a leather workshop on the first floor of Via del Sole 9, in central Florence. There is no shopfront, only a small sign at the door; to get in you press the bell and climb the stairs. Once you are inside the atelier, the workbenches are the ones the Cellerinis put there in 1960 - long, well-worn, dressed with the same hand-tools, leather laid out across them as it has always been.
Silvano and Anna Maria Cellerini started the workshop in the late 1950s, in a small rented room near the Mercato Nuovo, doing restoration. The work was good enough that the Florentine families took notice quickly. Within a few years they had the apartment on Via del Sole, where they have been ever since.
Everything that leaves the room is made in it: bags, wallets, belts, smaller leather objects, cut and stitched and finished by hand from a careful selection of Italian leathers. Pieces are made to last.
Cellerini is exclusive to Australia at The Leopard.
