Home Furnishings Leather and Banana

The name comes from a use typically Tuscan attributed to each of imaginative nicknames as kids. So Leather Banana, nicknames of two childhood friends, became the headline of an original architectural interiors set in a small warehouse in the center of Carrara and maintained by Fabio Cruel. Behind interrupted medical studies to become a real job to do that until a few years ago was a love cultivated as a hobby: the creation of objects and furniture made strictly by hand, almost inventing craftsmanship and decoration, with a particular attention to the recovery and processing of materials and objects to a given new life by the skilled hands of a craftsman is sui generis, able to glimpse the original forms and uses of forgotten things, which go well from the basement to the living room, or invent jobs innovative materials.

One of the characteristics of skin and Banana fact is that there are very specific items: girarosti old faucets and antique brass lamps that are now, tables with metal frame and top in OSB treated with natural oils and waxes, wooden sink, or a collection of furniture made with wood slats cut from old oak casks, which Fabio tries patiently farms in the country.