14. EVERY STITCH HAS A PURPOSE: Hermès-Trained Leather Artisan Béatrice Amblard on bespoke craftsmanship and reviving American leatherwork
In this episode of The Trades Show, host Briana Ottoboni sits down with Béatrice Amblard, the only Hermès-trained leather artisan in the US working under her own label and the founder of April in Paris and Heirloom Leathercraft, inside her San Francisco atelier. Their conversation traces nearly five decades in leather — from the moment a sixteen-year-old Béatrice, steered toward the trades by a French school system that didn't know what to do with her dyslexia, walked into a leather classroom and felt every one of her senses wake up — the scent of wax and hide, the benches worn smooth by…
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