The Fara in brown carries the full character of vegetable-tanned horse hide -- a hard, structured leather that arrives stiff and dense, with a grain you can feel under a fingertip. The brown tone is deep and unpolished, closer to tree bark than to chocolate, with the natural wax finish leaving a matte surface that holds warmth without any gloss. This is leather that smells of the tannery: bark extract, beeswax, the slow chemistry of vegetable tanning.
Daniele Basta cuts the Fara into a semi-circular silhouette -- a D-shape that sits differently in the hand and in the pocket than anything rectangular. The rigid form holds its structure without a frame. Inside, multi-gusset bellows construction allows the interior to expand and contract without stressing the leather. Along the front, a vertical line of 925 sterling silver staples is set by hand in the Empoli workshop -- each one individually placed, the same lost-wax casting and hand-finishing applied to a wallet that most makers would stamp from a press.