Leather & Bag Makers in Florence
9 stores · curated ORBIS register
Benheart brings leather jackets and sneakers into this Florence selection through a locally founded clothing and footwear label. Gianni Chiarini specialises in leather bags, with the Marcella tote among the Florentine house's named designs. Legatoria Il Torchio uses leather alongside canvas and artistic papers for hand-bound journals and albums, also restoring older books.
Young Florentine leather label — handmade jackets and sneakers with a heart-transplant founding story.
Florence leather-goods atelier founded by Maria Clara Soto, whose maternal family were Italian leatherworkers; handmade vegetable-tanned bags are sold from a boutique on Via del Moro in the Santa Maria Novella quarter and online at digerolamo.it.
FP Pelletterie has made leather goods (pelletteria) in Florence since 1977, run by Flavia and Flavio from two shops on Piazza Duomo. Bags, belts, and wallets are handmade from cowhide and lambskin leather.
Florence leather-goods house founded in the 1990s by Gianni Chiarini, whose father supplied leather in the city's tanning district; Chiarini launched his first self-designed, signed bag line in 2000 and brands the house 'Made in Florence' before 'Made in Italy.'
A bookbindery on Via de' Bardi since 1980, Il Torchio hand-binds albums, diaries and journals using leather, coloured canvas and its own marbled and artistic papers. The bottega restores old volumes and collaborates with designers, keeping the work fully produced in Florence.
Family-run since 1919 near Florence's Ponte Vecchio, Madova has produced leather gloves exclusively across three generations, from founder Amedeo Donnini to today's four siblings. Every pair is still made and fitted on site at Via Guicciardini 1R.
Florentine leather workshop founded in 1956 by brothers Piero and Roberto Peroni, known for hand-decorated 'cuoietto artistico fiorentino' leather made without stitching; now run by the third generation.
Florence leather school and workshop inside the Franciscan monastery of Santa Croce, founded in 1950 by the Gori and Casini families with the friars to teach leatherworking to war orphans; still family-run, with visitors able to watch artisans work and buy directly from the workshop.
Founded in 1969 near Florence as Il Ponte Pelletteria by five Florentine leatherworkers, renamed The Bridge in 1975, with production based in Scandicci since 1987; part of the Piquadro group since 2016.