La Pell – How green is this local leather design project?
Leather packaging design by Sebastian Vecchio and Guillem Ferran.
Leather might not seem the most treehugger-liked material, but like with any material, it depends how you use it, where it comes from and what processes it has undergone. A few craftsmen and designers in Catalonia, Spain, got together and created some beautiful pieces to promote certain local trades (in this case the leather production) to prevent them from disappearing in the region due to the pressure of cheaper products from China or elsewhere. The project is called
La Pell, which means
the skin ...
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