Leather care

The life of a Marden journal begins in the atelier - what it becomes is entirely yours.

The leather is alive to the world, deepening with handling, responsive to light, changed by the coast walked in winter or the long drive. Over years of use it will become something that could not have been made any other way.

The hides we source from the Badalassi Carlo tannery in Tuscany improve with age, developing over time a surface that carries the unique history of the person who has carried it.

Minerva is a vacchetta leather, tanned with organic bark extracts in rotating wooden barrels over several weeks and finished with natural waxes worked deep into the hide - it absorbs rather than repels.

A cognac journal starts bright and amber and evolves over months toward something richer. An olive journal begins cool and earthy and settles, gradually, into something deeper.

Care, when it is needed, is simple - the oils from your hands do most of the work. Once or twice a year a small amount of leather balm worked in gently with a soft cloth will keep the leather supple through cold or dry conditions. Blot water rather than rubbing it and allow the leather to dry naturally, away from direct heat. Natural light deepens the colour over time, though extended exposure in a fixed place can cause unevenness the leather will not recover from.

Each piece arrives in a cotton dust bag for storage when not in use.