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Individual handmade leather goods
Great quality combined with a love for shapes and colours HAEUTE bags, satchels and purses are the result of modern German craftsmanship with a reduced but colourful style. Artist Marion Klatt founded HAEUTE in 2007 in a small backyard garage in Stuttgart when she developed the knapsack TONI: simple but of high quality, refined and sympathetic. Her ideas grew into today’s fine and customised projects. TEXT: JESSICA HOLZHAUSEN I PHOTOS: HAEUTE
Together with her partner, Claus Haas, Marion Klatt now runs a small family enterprise in Füssen, just below the famous castle of Neuschwanstein. “We both are fascinated with leather,” says Marion Klatt about working together with her partner. “It is a material that not only accompanies people today but is a common theme throughout human history. The originality, versatility and longevity fascinate us.” Choosing the right leather is already part of their ingenious designs: rough edges and unlined surfaces. “When it comes
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to the form, we are inspired by our own wishes and ideas about what makes a good bag. That is why my designs are a bit more playful. Colours are always playing an important role, but also contrasts, for example between fine and rough leather,” she says.“I also like it a bit nostalgic. That’s why I love these old key locks.” Using European high-quality leather, the team of currently five employees carefully and lovingly fabricates unique products by hand.“They all captivate through timeless,
reduced and at the same time colourful designs,” says founder Marion Klatt. Colourful bags for women TONI for instance is a classic handbag for women with a huge amount of possible design combinations when it comes to colours, shapes and seams – either with a stripe on the side, in the middle or even without one. SLOP on the other hand is a leather pouch – a rather new design, stylish and un-agitated, but with everything a great bag needs to have. Even filled to the top it can still be carried comfortably on the back or over one shoulder. All bags come in a great variety: a configurator in the HAEUTE online shop allows you to choose between different colours