Archipel started out on Isola Comacina, on Lake Como. Out of a traveller’s need was born a simple, seamless bag: made of a sheet of leather, folded and held in place by the handle.

The designer Sébastien Cordoleani, inspired by natural materials and expertise in crafts and manufacture, dreamt up the Archipel brand.

Archipel leather bags are hand-crafted in a workshop in Montmartre, right in the heart of Paris.