A workshop that never learned to rush
Leathere Curt began with one saddler, one bench, and a belief that the best things are made slowly. Eighteen years later, that hasn't changed.
We don't make things to be bought. We make things to be inherited — carried, scuffed, repaired, and handed down until the leather remembers more of your life than you do.
One bench,
one saddler
In 2006, a single saddler named Hamza Navtakia opened a small workshop on a quiet street in Florence. He had spent fifteen years repairing other people's leather goods and had grown frustrated watching well-loved bags fall apart at seams that were never meant to hold.
He started Leathere Curt to build the opposite: goods made to be repaired indefinitely, stitched by hand with techniques that could be undone and redone rather than replaced. The first holdall he ever made is still in use today, by his daughter.
Hamza NavtakiaFounder, Leathere Curt
How we got here
The milestones that shaped the atelier — not as a marketing arc, but as the actual order things happened in.
The workshop opens
Lorenzo Curti opens a one-room atelier in Florence with a single workbench and a single apprentice.
The lifetime repair pledge
After repairing a customer's decade-old wallet for free, Lorenzo formalizes the promise: anything we make, we will repair, for as long as it exists.
Three tanneries, one trust
The atelier commits to three family-run vegetable tanneries, ending all sourcing from anonymous suppliers.
Bespoke commissions begin
The team grows to six artisans, large enough to take on fully custom, made-to-order pieces for the first time.
Still one atelier
No second location, no factory line. Every piece that leaves Leathere Curt still passes through the same Florence workshop it always has.
The standards behind the stitching
Not aspirations — commitments applied to every single piece that leaves the atelier, the same today as in 2006.
Traced to Origin
We know every hide by name and tannery — three family operations we have worked with for over a decade.
No Chrome. No Shortcuts.
Vegetable-tanned over months for depth, durability, and the patina that only time can bring.
Every Seam by Hand
Waxed linen thread, two needles, no machine — stronger, more repairable, visibly distinct.
Repair, Not Replace
Bring it back in ten years — or twenty. We will restore it as though it just left the bench.