Atelier drawing — photography to follow.
Le Gant de Grasse
Driving glove
In the atelier
An unlined lambskin driving glove with perforated knuckles and a single-press closure — finished, as the gantiers-parfumeurs of Grasse once did, with a trace of the house scent.
We will write to you once, when the piece is ready. Nothing else.
- Leather
- Nappa lambskin, unlined
- Construction
- Hand-finished seams, perforated knuckles
- Closure
- Single press-stud at the wrist
- Finish
- Lightly perfumed with Eight of Spades
- Colours
- Cognac · Espresso
The story
For centuries the finest gloves in Europe were perfumed. In Grasse, where leather was tanned, glove-makers scented their hides with jasmine, rose and orange blossom to soften the smell of the tannery, and in the seventeenth century the gantiers-parfumeurs were recognised as a guild of their own. Perfumery, as a French craft, grew out of the glove.
Le Gant de Grasse brings that history back to the hand. A close-fitting driving glove in supple lambskin, cut to follow the grip of a wooden wheel, with open knuckles for air and a press-stud at the wrist. Each pair is lightly perfumed with Eight of Spades before it leaves the atelier.