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William Morris, writing in the nineteenth century, put it plainly: “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” A demanding principle — and the closest we have found to a definition of what a leather object should be.

At a time when digital experiences multiply, physical objects occupy a different place. The philosopher Byung-Chul Han observes that we form a different attachment to a physical object than to a functionality. A wallet carried for ten years is not the same object it was on day one — it has a history, a patina, a touch that cannot be replicated.

The Library brings together what we have learned about taurillon leather, wallet structure, care, and the making choices that matter over twenty years of use. Richard Sennett spoke of “material consciousness” — a cultivated attention to how materials behave, resist, and evolve. It is in that spirit that we have brought these articles together.