"Custom leather work is an incredible joy, though incredibly expensive, meticulous, and time consuming. Truly, these were the kinds of dream projects that I would love to do full time."
Our books have been curated by professional, institutional and personal libraries alike. Many esteemed collectors have commissioned fine leather rebindings of their favorite editions, and we have been honored to create unique designer bindings which are often revered by their owners as the pinnicle of their collections.
We have had the honor of having crafted props for many stage, television and feature film productions, notably: Fargo, Wynonna Earp, Lewis and Clarke, Heartland, Tin Star, (among others which cannot be disclosed at present), and many, many more. The very first prop project we were commissioned for was an unnamed production by Disney, which consisted of six large, leather "Gargantua" Sketchbooks. Though we have never seen them in use, we keep our eyes peeled in hopes of finding out where they ended up. (Un petit mystery, n'est pas?)
Additionally, several meticulously crafted movie prop inspired custom books have also been commissioned by discerning clients, who sought to commission their "dream replica", in some cases, more beautiful than the originals. Three notable prop inspired projects included: The Never Ending Story, Beetlejuice, and The Ninth Gate -- all of which required custom tools to be manufactured based on high definition photographs of the originals, which belong in private collectors' libraries.
One of our most prestigious commissions, a prop for a recent film production (Sorry, we can't name names until after the production has released, but please, keep an eye open for the news sometime during 2021), required hundreds of hours of leather tooling using retired dental tools and a jewler's loupe in order to sculpt intricate details measuring smaller than a quarter millimetre, and also required us to "invent" a new method for printing incredibly delicate designs on the book's pages (I can't honestly say if the method had been discovered before we dummied it out, but I've not yet seen any reference to anything similar, as yet.)
