Original leather photo album - Ikunico

Charming design combined with natural Italian leather, family traditions, and handcraftsmanship is synonymous with the Ikunico brand. It is undoubtedly a nod to genuine products that are a testament to human labour, high-quality materials, and a love for beautiful things.

Ikunico has been around since 2017, when the owner opened his own artisanal leather workshop, continuing the family tradition of his father Giuseppe. The founder's workshop is located in Gubbio, Umbria, a stone city where time seems to stand still. All products are made from genuine Italian vegetable-tanned leather, certified and guaranteed for origin. Exceptionally high-quality leather and acid-free paper, also handmade by Fabriano paper masters, are the essence of this premium brand.

Between roots and destiny, between past and future, this is where materials are shaped.

OUR TOWN

All IKUNICO handmade products are created here and nowhere else.

It is not by chance, but a choice and vocation. Revived from the roots and destiny of this town, from its past and future, this is the theatre: a stone city where time seems to stand still, Gubbio, in Umbria, the heart of Italy. With an immensely strong character and a solid sense of identity that resists oblivion, rigours, and fleeting modernity. In an almost suspended and static dimension of time and space, the fabric of the medieval town remains intact, with its narrow streets, towers, churches, and bell towers, buildings, and ancient fountains...

This place is not just an ideal setting or a simple backdrop, but a vital scene, the heart of what is handmade in Italy. Cultivating a sense of time is experimenting and using memory as experience in the pursuit of the highest quality and beauty. Memory is what you carry within you, not just traditions to recreate. Tradition and innovation are not two opposing poles, but an imagined space for designing the future. Leave space and time to listen to something new, to creativity and imagination inspired by the belief that beauty is good for you.

The city and the artisan workshop

The city itself and the shop are united and shaped by the same spirit of place, consisting of light, materials, colours, and scents that are very unique. Unique and unrepeatable, just like the products the manufacturer creates. Light, tempered like a sword, bright and clear, reflects in the clean lines of the buildings in the city. Curved and oblique, it carries with it the time that passes with the density of warm and vibrant leather.

Behind and beyond them, the silence of the mountains, which in the plots of the seasons light up with vivid shades of red and brown, imbued with the scent of the earth. These are the same colours and scents that form the substance of leather goods. The simple and elegant spirit of Gubbio, an ancient city of art and craftsmanship, a classic place of excellence, to give objects greater value. From its calm industriousness, the expression of a face slowly emerges, bringing leather to life, turning it into a story and emotion.

THE FINEST RAW MATERIALS

All elite products are made from certified and guaranteed genuine Italian leather, tanned exclusively with natural tannins derived from plants. It is a process that requires patience and experience, entrusted to the skilled hands of tanners from the consortium of genuine Italian vegetable-tanned leathers. Natural leather dedicated to those seeking high quality and style. The interior is lined with acid-free lamellar paper or paper handmade by Fabriano Paper Masters, obtained in a slow and laborious process quite similar to that of seven hundred years ago. Each one different from the other, each with its own veins, tones, peculiarities, softness, and hardness, each with its own story, different from anything else.

The daily challenge is to bring things and their uses to life in many stories that satisfy the heart and mind. Beyond the principle of utility, beyond hasty consumption.