Bird, designed by Kristian Vedel in 1959, is making its comeback. The three birds, the child, the parents and the grandparents, are now available again via ArchitectMade. They are still hand made, in a traditional woodturner workshop in Denmark, piece by piece, in three different wood types, oak – smoked or natural, with its friendly walnut-eyes. Love it!

Qompendium just shared this beautiful handcrafted crystal iPhone and iPod Touch stand by CalypsoCrystal with us and I instantly fell in love! Usually I’m not a big fan of crystal, but this one is made with such an elegance and restraint that I just love it! ‘It takes days and more then 15 pairs of hands to a produce a single CrystalDock. Every detail of every CrystalDock has been meticulously planned and taken care of; a must-have accessory that is divinely produced and made ready for shipping to any destination.’ Well, let’s give your iPhone a well deserved treatment with this treasure!

My old (and favorite) Officine Creative boots just got back from The Royal Treatment and are like new again! Danny van Kerkwijk did an amazing job by giving them a completely new outer-sole without loosing the perfect fit they used to have before the surgery. He gave them a special treatment to keep the raw look of the shoes with some very nice details in the finishing like raw edges, a red scratched mid-sole and a reinforced nose. Love them like never before.

A really interesting post by Horween Leather Co. about the basic techniques to finish the leather. I remembered my days at Red Wing Shoes were we learned about the techniques of air drying, seeing all the hides moving slowly, hanging down on hooks, waiting to become a shoe…
Horween Leather Co. is doing more, and they documented it really well on their blog. Read their post on air drying, pasting, vacuum drying, and toggling.
Above the lovely picture of Toggling, and the Pasting Unit.

Walter Manning from Old Chum found this beautiful old advertising for leather work on ladies hand bags, dress suit cases and also shoes. The trade sign Geo Little, at Vanes & Folk Art Gallery.

Bruce Cameron Clark is a fantastic bespoke clothing shop on Lexington Avenue and 71st Street, NY. Lately the New York Times did this little documentation on Mr. Clark’s shop. Nice fact: His suits are somewhere around $5,000 and his handmade boxer shorts, the monogrammed pair, are about $150. But what’s better than your own bespoke boxer with your initials in it?
Thank you Paul van Ravestein for sharing.

ONEEIGHTNINE shared this beautiful little documentary about hand painted advertising. Love it!! Up There. Concept: Mother NY; Production Co: Mekanism; Director/DP/Editor: Malcolm Murray; Music by The Album Leaf; Painters: Colossal Media/Sky High Murals/Bob Middleton; Presented by Stella Artois

Yesterday I received a very kind email from Nuno Matos, sharing his project Pele. A collection of seven pairs of men’s shoes documented in a beautiful little book where he shared his creative journey, the inspiration, the process and the result. We really hope to welcome this nice publication in Anothershop somewhere soon!

After writing about it in the new Blend Magazine which will hit the stores next week we were kindly invited to sell this beautiful hand crafted shoe-care box by The Royal Treatment in our little online boutique. The box is hand made in France and contains (amongst others) horse hair brushes, polish, suede care products, creams in various colors and all the essentials for your shoes in order to give them eternal life. A must have for the happy few… Exclusively online at www.anothershop.org

Just received an email from the Amsterdam born Koen Tossijn a.k.a. Moos, Tailored Basics, to introduce his made to measure jeans. Started with the dream to make something for the people around him he create the ‘tailored basics’ all from a 14 oz selvage natural dyed indigo denim from the Kuroki mill in Okayama, Japan. At this moment he is working on two outfits based on post war essentials, a men and a woman. What is more beautiful than real, small and engaged craftsmanship?! And the best thing? You can simply buy an item with money, or make something which you believe is of equal value… (PS. Be sure you’ll check his picture blog as well)

The new business suit

— Stanley & Sons Apron and Bag co. featured by A Smile in the Mind >

In November last year Tenue de Nîmes visited the Grenson factory in Rushden, Northamptonshire to salute our first Grenson x Tenue de Nîmes shoe. We developed a black Tenue de Nîmes interpretation of the Grenson classic: the Fred. The shoe is a limited edition high top brogue with a triple layer -blue tone- leather sole. Tenue de Nîmes was amazed by all the stages of English craftsmanship to finally come together in this characteristic shoe. That is why we decided to do a video about the factory and the nearly 200 pit stops that our shoe had to make before it got delivered in Amsterdam. The factory images and report will be published in Journal de Nîmes Nº5, in July 2010.

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Louis Vuitton changed their communication from showing old and erstwhile world leaders on their way down the road into telling the story of the high-end craftsman and the beauty of the details.
I saw the sneak preview of the images, shot by Desiree Dolron, a few months ago and I instantly fell in love with the brand.
Above image is the sewing of the leather with a beeswax thread to protect the stitchings overtime. Louis Vuitton: The sum of details beautifully captured by Desiree Dolron! For more images Read the rest of this entry »

Started by Brenna Boyce and Daniel Lewis Brooklyn Tailors are beautiful handmade and bespoke garments made by skilled craftsman. It’s lovely to see these kind of companies opening their online shop in Etsy and moving from hard to get into something very reachable…

1 shoe last, 3 styles and 5 colour combinations: T-MICHAEL will launch it’s first shoe collection tomorrow in Ridehuset, Oslo, accompanied with some beautiful tunes by Tord Gustavsen. Designed at Skostredet and hand finished in Portugal the shoe will come in vegetable tanned full grain leather, blake construction and a curvy shoe last. (picture by Bent René Synnevåg)

Moma, the craftsmen from Italy with their beautiful range of shoes, finally shared a little piece of their secrets with the world. It was always hard to get a clear view on what they do, and how they do it, but their agency Pil Associati together with Leandro Manuel Emede made a beautiful 8,5 minute short were we can see the real craftsmanship behind Moma. Enjoy MOMA – Midnight Over My Actions with some lovely images, vintage machinery and fine detailing…

Todd Selby visited Martin Greenfield at his factory in Brooklyn NY. This wonderful hand-tailored, union-run garment factory will be featured in the December issue of GQ. Be sure you’ll check Lessons from a Tailor directed by Galen Summer on Vimeo as well…

Yujin Tsumuraya from the leather factory Roberu in Japan shared some fantastic handmade leather photo cases and accessories with us. I remember my father used to have his camera in this kind of hard leather cases ages ago and I was looking for them for quit some time now… Above the Olumpus Pen E-P1 holder.

Check this extremely beautiful heavy weight balls by the Lineaus Athletic Company. Made out of 5 oz. full grain baseball glove cow hide, double locked-stitched with 3 cords of polyester thread they come in different sizes and weights. Each custom-made and numbered… excellent!

Wow, remember Temple Bags 6 months ago, the blogger page, and Steve Opperman, the man behind it making all the bags by hand, all in single pieces.
It transformed into a real collection and an online shop. Thankfully the bags are still made of re-purposed materials and they still look great!