The Bookbox: Starry fabric - Limited Edition - Medium
£319
Handcrafted in Portugal using exquisite leather and fabrics from Hosoo, this limited edition Bookbox is made in collaboration with Thomas Lykke from OEO Studio. The woven fabric with silver thread on its exterior makes it a true piece of art.
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The Limited Edition Medium Bookbox is like a functional art-piece in your living space. With its A5 size, it can hold your everyday objects or your most cherished belongings, helping to create order and ease in your surroundings. With its alluring fabric it is a beautiful object.
The Bookbox is our bestselling box and was the first of August Sandgren’s aesthetic boxes for storage. The box is named ‘The Bookbox’ as it takes its origin from the beautiful old bookboxes, in which people would place their most valuable books to take extra good care of them.
This Limited Edition Bookbox is made in collaboration with Thomas Lykke, Creative Director of OEO Studio, based in Copenhagen and Tokyo. With the Japanese connection in mind, Thomas has chosen – Starry – from Hosoo, whose history goes back to 1688 and Kyoto's textile district. Today, Hosoo is widely recognized for their exceptional skills within Japanese three-dimensional weaving, and the result of the collaboration is unforgettable. The Starry fabric on the exterior is a charcoal nishijin woven fabric with silver thread and the leather on the interior is semi-aniline OEKO-TEX leather, designed by Note Design Studio.
Dimensions: 26/20.5/6.5 cm (A5 in internal measures)
Material: Hosoo silk fabric and aniline leather
Colour: Exterior is black with silver threads and the interior is black
Production location: Handmade in Portugal
Logo placement: Discreetly blind debossed inside the lid
Personalisation: It is not possible to deboss our textile boxes
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"August Sandgren makes mess pretty"
Ditte Isager, Photographer
"Boxes like these can last a lifetime"
Michael Pram Rasmussen, Senior Executive
"The precision of the craftsmanship, the proportions and the wonderful tactility of the leather is a daily joy"
Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen, Architect
"It really works! My keys, receipts, cards, etc., now have a home, and I always know where to find my things in the morning"
Dago Diedrich, Senior Partner McKinsey & Company
"We love the quality, love the simple design, love that it is designed to last forever - no one else is really doing this"
Juliana Parker, Interior Designer
"An elegant and conscious way to hide otherwise distracting clutter. Unique storage solution that is a beautiful object in itself"
Olga Krukovskaya, Interior Designer
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Cherish your precious belongings
It was during a personal search for storage solutions that the vision for August Sandgren originated. I, Pia, who directs the company, love a decluttered environment and I like it to be functional, high-quality, and aesthetic. I couldn’t find any storage objects that met all my demands. We discovered August Sandgren, and by integrating our vision with his unbelievable heritage, we believe we can create functional and aesthetic boxes, folders, and holders, which suits today’s world but rendered in a quality unparalleled by anyone other than traditional craftsmen.
We believe we succeeded, and fortunately, our customers agree.
Crafted by hand in the best available materials
Each August Sandgren object is crafted by hand in Portugal by a fourth-generation family of craftsmen. They are not only incredibly talented, but also very dear to us.
The leather and fabrics that we use are all sourced in Europe and from leading tanneries offering transparency; from the origin of the hide to their Oeko-tex certified tanning processes.
Today, most of our objects are crafted in surplus materials sourced from the world’s leading furniture and fashion brands – we are not only very proud to contribute to waste reduction, but also to work with a quality that does not get any better!
It is easy to keep your object beautiful
We craft our objects to last – both in their construction and in our choice of materials. The construction is perfected in every aspect to ensure that it lasts, and to a large extent, so will the leather. The leather will, however, patinate, which we believe is part of its beauty and a testimony to how natural a product we create. To maintain our objects in the best possible way, and to keep it moist, you should leave it out of direct sunlight and every couple of years, treat it with leather grease – just use a soft, clean, cotton cloth and a thin layer of grease, and that’s it!
Make it personal!
All our leather objects can be personalised with name or initials. It is a small addition with a huge and valuable potential for appreciation from the receiver – that person being yourself or someone dear to you.
Personalising your object is easy and only increases delivery time with a maximum of two-three days.