{"title":"Frontpage","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"13269","title":"Luxury Blue Leather Sottomani Desk Pad","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe advent of the computer has relegated desk pads and other executive desk accessories to the attic. It is nevertheless a beautiful thing and carves out a tidy dedicated workspace to comfortably write at your desk. This Sottomani, designed in house by Choosing Keeping, brings together luxury Italian leatherwork with historical hand decorated paste paper (technique inherited from continental Europe circa 1800s) in a celebration of craftsmanship. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10 years of training - if you're good - are required to master the leather thinning and moulding techniques involved in the production of this object. The result is a highly polished, lacquer-like surface which with age and use will develop a unique patina - a physical record of the many hours spent at your desk working, writing, thinking... \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is certainly one of the most fabulous pieces of craftsmanship we have had the pleasure of commissioning, made by but one of a handful of remaining artisans working in this trade and to this quality. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sottomani is comprised of two pieces of leatherwork folding into each other. When writing turn the top over, decorated paper facing outwards, for a soft underlay to your writing surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eDetails:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSize: \u003c\/em\u003e58 x 41 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaterials: \u003c\/em\u003eCalf leather and paste paper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach piece is one of a kind and because of the delicate nature of the leather, this product cannot be returned if it has been handled. To purchase or for more information, please email orders@choosingkeeping.surf.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ZYBA-1179","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":16408762843179,"sku":"13269","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/0673\/products\/Copyright_Choosing_Keeping_20190411_BS_13269_open_RT.jpg?v=1571438816"},{"product_id":"raw-brass-japanese-tape-dispenser","title":"Brass Futagami Tape Dispenser","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is no coincidence that this brass object was produced in Takaoka, a town also home to the 3rd largest Japanese bronze Buddha statue, 16m high and 65 tons heavy, made by local craftspeople in the 1930s. Actually Takaoka accounts for 90% of all copperware and brass craft items made in the country, principally religious paraphernalia, such as temple bells, buddhist altars and lanterns. Suitably the foundry now embraces Buddhist aesthetic notion of \u003cem\u003eWabi-Sabi \u003c\/em\u003eapplied to design\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e allowing for the self-expression of the brass material's barest characteristics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn alloy of zinc and copper, brass is molten onto fine a sand mould, and presented \u003cem\u003eIhada\u003c\/em\u003e meaning in a naked and raw state. Bar minimal polish to smooth over sharp edges, the brass is left untreated, no antioxidants are applied. The surfaces' irregular skin like texture is allowed to live - forever evolving in colour and oxidation with use and contact with hands and air. Bring a little of this philosophical notion to your desk by way of this beautiful raw object.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Choosing Keeping","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55359327404408,"sku":"13428","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/0673\/files\/uAgOfjpGNG8k9RbpXn3vtqo04XRiPKqpaNVQnQtADg4.png?v=1763130256"}],"url":"https:\/\/choosingkeeping.surf\/collections\/frontpage.oembed","provider":"Choosing Keeping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}