Original leather bookmark - Ikunico

Unconventional design combined with natural Italian leather, family traditions, and handcrafted craftsmanship creates the essence of Ikunico manufactory. It is undoubtedly a tribute to genuine products that serve as a hallmark of human labor, high-quality materials, and love for beautiful things.

Ikunico has been in existence since 2017, when the owner opened his own artisan workshop dedicated to leather processing, continuing his father Giuseppe's family tradition. The founder's workshop is located in Gubbio in Umbria, a stone city where time seems to have stood still. All products are made from genuine Italian vegetable-tanned leather, certified and guaranteed to be authentic. The exceptionally high-quality leather and acid-free paper, also handcrafted by the master papermakers at Fabriano, are the quintessence of the premium brand.

Between roots and destiny, between the past and the future, materials are shaped here.

OUR CITY

All handcrafted IKUNICO products are created here and nowhere else.

This is no coincidence but a choice and a calling. Emerging from the roots and destiny of this city, with its past and future, it is a theater: a stone city where time appears to have stopped—Gubbio in Umbria, the heart of Italy. With a strong character and a solid sense of identity that resists forgetfulness, rigor, and fleeting modernity. In an almost suspended and static dimension of time and space, the fabric of this medieval city remains untouched, with narrow streets, towers, churches, bell towers, buildings, and ancient fountains...

This place is not just an ideal setting or a simple backdrop but a vibrant scene, the heart of handcrafted Italian craftsmanship. Cultivating a sense of time is an experiment in memory as an experience in the pursuit of the highest quality and beauty. Memory is what you carry within, not just traditions to be recreated. Tradition and innovation are not two opposing poles but an imagined space for designing the future. Leave room and time to listen to something new, to creativity and imagination inspired by the belief that beauty is good for you.

City and artisan workshop

The city itself and the shop share and shape the same spirit of place, composed of light, materials, colors, and scents that are very unique. Unparalleled and one-of-a-kind, just like the products created by the manufacturer. The light, tempered like a sword, bright and pure, reflects in the clean lines of the city’s buildings. Curved and slanted, it carries the passage of time, flowing with the density of warm and lively leather.

Behind and beyond, there is the silence of the mountains, which on seasonal plots light up with vivid shades of red and brown, permeated with the scent of earth. These are the same colors and scents that form the substance of leather goods. The simple and elegant spirit of Gubbio, an ancient city of art and craftsmanship, a place of classical excellence, to give objects greater value. From its peaceful industriousness slowly emerges a facial expression that animates the leather, transforming it into a story and emotion.

THE BEST RAW MATERIALS

All luxury products are made from certified and guaranteed genuine Italian leather, tanned exclusively with natural plant-based tannins. This process requires patience and experience, entrusted to skilled tanners from the consortium of authentic Italian vegetable-tanned leathers. Natural leather for those seeking high quality and style. The interior is lined with acid-free lamella paper or handmade paper by Fabriano Paper Masters, produced through a slow and labor-intensive process similar to that of over seven hundred years ago. Each piece is unique, with its own veins, tones, peculiarities, softness, and hardness—each with its own story, different from everything else.

The daily challenge is to bring objects and their uses to life in many stories that satisfy the heart and mind. Beyond utility, beyond hasty consumption.