"She does not choose a stone because it is beautiful. She chooses it because it is right."
Andrea trained in leather craftsmanship in Florence. Ludovica spent years in the gem trade of Geneva before earning the world's most respected gemology degree. When they decided to make something together, a bag was the only shape that held everything.
Every ALEA piece begins with Ludovica reading the internal world of a stone and Andrea reading the grain of a hide. Only then does the making begin.
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