Meet Classic Leather: our new collection of everything we’ve learned about translating leather into tech. It was also a great chance to remember some of the most important qualities we try to infuse into our products – craftsmanship, quality, consideration, and balance.
Dedication to material
Followers of our brand will be familiar with our dedication to material. With leather, it was even more important for us to choose the right partner – to make sure that they were up to the task – not just in the quality of the finished product, but also in how its procured.
Our partner is based in the tanning district of Arzignano, near Vicenza, in Italy. Since 1958, it has been supplying bovine leather to the footwear, nautical, automotive and clothing industries. One of the finest Italian tanneries, they stood out to us because of a commitment to constant innovation in reducing their industries’ social and environmental impacts.
Explore the Classic Leather collection
Blue Angel Certification
One sign of this was their Blue Angel Certification. The first ecolabel in the world, Blue Angel is a certification process that evaluates products across their entire life cycle, emphasizing concrete benefits such as the sustainable sourcing of raw hides and lower water consumption throughout the process.
Over the years, our supplier has also dedicated increasing investments to develop solutions aimed towards improving the tanning process’ like building water purification plants, and reducing carbon dioxide emissions with four cogeneration plants at their facilities. They were also the first in the world to build a completely electric-powered industrial loader to handle hides, among other initiatives.
Premium finishes
We’ve always designed with the desire to enhance how we all live with our devices within an increasingly digital world. To provide solutions that aren’t just functional, but really deliver quality that’ll last and a dose of personality to our most-used everyday products. With our Classic Leather range, we wanted to take that further.
Adapting soft and supple Nappa leather into typically utilitarian tech accessories was admittedly no easy task. We were insistent about not using any plastic components for a truly premium finish, and so our production process naturally involved a pretty substantial amount of craftsmanship and handiwork.
It’s really a balance of performance and design that we want to provide for our community.
Crafting the Classic Leather collection was certainly a fresh challenge for our product design and engineering teams. But, we think the finished design speaks for itself: a range of everyday essentials that truly transform from purely utilitarian objects to refined accessories that add character to the products we’ve all become increasingly dependent on.
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Pedro D
I love Native Union items. This leather case seems to be of excellent quality.
I love Native Union items. This leather case seems to be of excellent quality.