Attica Dinner & Busyman Folders' Update

For the third time Feride and I have the absolute pleasure of dining at Attica restaurant a couple of weeks ago. The experience and the food has always been incredible and seems to get better each time we visit. It was a great opportunity to see the leather folders I made for the restaurant around eight years ago and wonderful to see how they're ageing and developing a deeper character. A huge thank you to Ben, Kylie and all of the team at Attica for such an amazing experience! Favourite dishes? Pretty much everything served.

FOOKS House Stool Recover

As a wedding gift for Ben and Kylie I reupholstered this original Grant Featherston dressing room stool for their amazing Ernest Fooks house in Melbourne. Kangaroo leather with a FOOKS graphic, designed by Feride and me to suit the shape of the stool and sensitive to the period of the home. For good measure we included the happy skull saddle which is now hung in the house alongside some very nice works of art.

Bat Winged Skull Arione

Jim's Fizik Arione with a raised design inspired by some ancient Maltese decorative tile work. Comprising a skull, cross bones and a pair of stylised bat wings. The orange detailing picks up on his bike frame colour and make the skull eye sockets look quite electric. 

SLR Super Flow Saddle Recover with Red Perforations

Delivered to Andrew in France. After several years of riding the original synthetic cover was wearing at the front and the foam padding had come unstuck in a small area which was causing a very annoying squeak. Now the squeak is fixed and it has a nice clean new leather cover.

Rapha Power

S-Works Power saddle recovered in kangaroo leather with silver and bright pink perforated detail inspired by the Rapha RCC aesthetics. This one is for Francisco's OPEN limited edition RCC bicycle.

Novus Boost Alcantara

For one of the limited edition Bastion Archangel bikes. Recovered in black Alcantara synthetic suede. 

Purple and Black Power

For Francisco's future Merlin: S-Works Power saddle hand dyed in purple and black with brogue perforation details and bar tape to match. The plan is to match the anodised colour on his frame and Chris King components.

Vintage Omega Watch Band

In antique looking kangaroo leather, cotton thread saddle stitched around the edges, one piece bi-laminate construction. Thank you Mr. Mahoney!

Aeolus RSL for Europro

White kangaroo leather with gold perforations for Europro Andy in the ACT.

Fizik Arione Gold

Arione R1 Large in black with gold perforations to compliment the anodising on Richard's future Firefly track bike.

Flite Gel Restored

An almost correct restoration of Armon's Selle Italia Flite Genuine Gel saddle. Completed in kangaroo leather with side panels, perforations, topstitch detail and the three original badges stitched in.

The King Lion: Century 100

The King Lion Selle Italia Century 100 saddle 'restored' for Steve at Velocraft. The red and blue panels are new kangaroo leather topstitched together. We kept the original centre panel to retain the embroidery and painted over the tired leather with some fresh yellow. It's not perfect but definitely looks better than when I received it.

Happy Skull

 Happy Birthday Mr Mahoney!

Handmade with Soul

Geoff puts his heart and soul into his bicycle frames: G. Duke Handmade Bicycles. This Flite Flow is the third saddle I've customised for Geoff all with his catchphrase raised around the saddle's back curve. It will be on display at SPOKEN: Australia's handmade bicycle show next month. 

Berk Lipa Turquoise

Hand dyed in black with a turquoise fade and some titanium silver perforations for Pascal's S-Works Aethos.

Celeste Gift

Commissioned by a few friends for a good mate's milestone Bianchi birthday. Selle San Marco Aspide Carbon FX with matching bar tape. Black leather with celeste perforations.

Arione black on black

A simple and stylish black on black Fizik Arione R1 set for Chad at Above Category

RCC Tailored Stripes

Fizik Arione Open (large) for Baum Cycles' RCC tailored special project.

SLR Superflow Understated

Classic contemporary styling for HAA's Baum Orbis. Black leather and dark silver grey perforations.

Bjorn for Adi's Sarto

Björn's full carbon Sedlo saddle with some added EVA foam padding and a leather cover featuring the Italian three colours and a raised logo for Adi's Sarto.