The Box: Leather - Cactus - Large
£329
Handcrafted in Portugal from OekoTex-certified leather, this Bookbox is part of our colour collection - it is vibrant, elegant and lights up any room while keeping your cherished belongings in order. Great for small piles of clutter too!
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Description
The Large Bookbox is the biggest of our boxes, and easily holds your large piles of clutter – in your home and office space. Use it for pens, remote controls, handheld devices, notebooks, post-its, chargers, and anything else that takes up space and disturbs the eye, but which you need within immediate reach, or keep your most cherished belongings safe and stored perfectly.
The Box is our bestselling object and was the first of August Sandgren’s aesthetic boxes for storage. The box was originally 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.
Initially our colour collection was made in cactus, saffron and terracotta selected by Josephine A Hoffmeyer and Elisa Ossino in 2021 for Salone del Mobile in Milan, as part of H+O's installation in Via Solferino. The response from visitors was overwhelmingly positive, and we have now made an even wider range of colours a part of our assortment. There is a colour for every mood, for every personality, for every room.
The Box is crafted in the most exquisite and soft OekoTex-certified leather and apart from the large size, it also comes in fusion and medium sizes.
Dimensions: 36/26/8.5 cm (A4 in internal measures)
Material: OekoTex-certified leather made from European hides
Colour: Cactus both on the exterior and interior
Production location: Handmade in Portugal
Logo placement: Discreetly blind debossed inside the lid
Personalisation: Possible to deboss initials, name, monogram, or logo on the top of the lid of the box
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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.