The maison's commission programme. Each piece is built to a single owner's measure — leather selected, dimensions confirmed, hardware specified in private consultation. The pieces that require time.
Where principles use craft to embody conviction, and convictions become discipline — discipline becomes luxury, and luxury simply becomes how the legacy is carried.
The Exquis Maroquinerie programme is the slow line of the maison. It is the work of a single artisan, kept to a measured pace, in service of a single owner. Nothing here is anticipated; nothing is held in standing inventory. The leather is selected after the consultation, not before. The hardware is specified to the piece, not the season. The hand that begins the work is the hand that finishes it.
For this reason the atelier accepts only a limited number of new commissions per quarter. The discipline is not an inconvenience — it is the only condition under which the work, done correctly, is permitted to be done at all. What follows is a plain account of how the calendar works, so that the client who chooses to stand with us understands precisely what they are entering, and when.
The atelier opens for new commissions on a four-season cycle. Each window has a stated opening date and a stated closing date; orders are accepted only between those two markers, and only for as long as allocations remain. The card highlighted below is the window currently open. The card marked closed is the season most recently sealed.
Each window holds a finite number of allocations across its three delivery months. When orders begin to fill, they fill the first month first; as that month seals, the second begins to take orders; when the second seals, the third opens. If the third month fills before the stated closing date, the window closes early, and the atelier does not reopen until the first day of the next season.
A client who places an order on or before April 30 receives a place in the summer window — their commission will be set down in the production months of May, June, or July, in the order their allocation was confirmed.
A client who reaches us between May 1 and July 31 enters the fall window — for delivery across August, September, or October. As before, allocations fill August first, then September, then October. Once the third month is sealed, the window closes; the atelier accepts no further commissions until August 1, when the winter window opens.
Should the fall window seal early — for example, every allocation across August, September, and October taken by May 30 — the atelier will close to new commissions on that day, and reopen only on August 1 for the winter window. Between those dates a waitlist may be opened, on terms set out below.
When a season closes early, the atelier opens — at its discretion, and conditional on the complexity of the requested piece and the outcome of consultation — a waitlist for the following season. Waitlist registrations are taken with a deposit, are confirmed only one season in advance, and convert to a confirmed allocation on the opening date of the season they are held against.
The waitlist is bounded in two ways. First, by horizon: it covers only the next season. If, while the summer window is sealed, every waitlist place for the fall window is also taken, the atelier does not begin accepting waitlist registrations for the spring season until August 1 — the date the fall window itself opens. The maison declines to register intentions further out than that.
Second, by allocation. Three quarters of the waitlist places for any season are made available to new clients in the order their deposit is received. The remaining quarter is reserved, throughout, for returning commission clients and for those held in the maison's roster of long-standing relationships. This reservation is not negotiable; it is the maison's way of honouring the hand that has stood with us before.
To take an example: if it is July and the summer window has been sealed for some weeks, and the fall window's waitlist is also full — covering November, December, and January — the atelier will not register new spring waitlist intentions until August 1. The discipline is the discipline. We hold the door at the times we have stated we will hold it, and not before.
A commission begins with a private consultation — held by appointment, in the atelier or by secure correspondence. There the leather is chosen from the five tiers of the maison's material archive; dimensions are taken; hardware, lining, thread, and the placement of the small eighteen-karat gold mark are specified. A confirmed allocation is held only after the consultation has been completed and the deposit received.
The form below is a pre-appointment consultation. It captures the early shape of your intention so that, when we sit down together, we begin already in the same room. None of what you select here is binding; it is simply the first careful sketch — the sort of conversation a maison takes the trouble to have, before the first cut is made.
The form is held within your private maison account. If you have not yet been received as a client, sign in or register below — the door is open.
A quiet form. Nothing here is binding — these are the early decisions we will set down together at consultation. Submit when you are ready, and the atelier will be in touch within two business days to arrange the appointment.
If you would prefer to begin the conversation in writing, the atelier accepts inquiries by correspondence. A reply will be returned by hand.