Henri CUIR

It seems like a legend but it is a true story.

It is a story which belongs to the miracle of quality and the made in Italy, even if the protagonist is a swiss man. Henri Beguelin discovers his passion for leather after learning the basiscs from a saddler in Locarno. His first belts are assembled with cowhide´s throw outs which Rolando Rossi, the master saddler, gave him. But the story really begins in the 70s, when the nomadic Hippy trend brings Henri to Isola d´Elba. There he teaches the local artisans the techniques he had learnt in Locarno and together they begin to make bags, sandals and accessories.