Suraquia Atelier
Payal just stepped into Surarquía’s sun-lit workshop near the Sagrada Familia and straight into the story of two South-American dreamers who turned a Barcelona flat into a leather lab.
Alejandro (Venezuela) and Felipe (Colombia) swapped architecture sketches for pattern-making, taught themselves to sew, and after kitchen-table prototypes, opened this atelier where every bag is cut, skived, and stitched by their own hands
. In 2023 they finally moved the machines out of the apartment and into a purpose-built space, but the process is still gloriously slow and local
In today’s episode, Payal…
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