Attica Folders 2025

There have been many notable highs in my practice since I started doing Busyman leatherwork in 2008. One of those highlights was meeting chef Ben Shewry of Attica restaurant and being commissioned to make leather folders for the restaurant's bills, beverage and wine lists. Here are a couple of fresh bill folders and wine list covers from earlier this year. The staff at Attica do such an amazing job with cleaning and maintaining the original folders but unfortunately one mysteriously disappears from time to time.

SLR Burnished Tan Set

Burnished light tan leather with a pull up effect for Rolling Wheels. The large perforated motif is derived from the original Stelbel head-badge design.

Burnished Tan SMP Lite 209

SMP Lite 209 in a burnished vegetable tanned kangaroo leather. It will continue to burnish and develop a complex patina with use.

Black SMP Lite 209

I sculpted some fresh padding for this SMP Lite 209. This saddle one of the more heavily padded models in the SMP range. In the past I've avoided replacing the padding on these because I wasn't sure I'd be able to achieve good enough symmetry and a shape close enough to the original. Sculpted from a few layers of medium density EVA foam. Covered here in the standard black vegetable tanned kangaroo leather. It turns out were pretty happy with the shape.

Black Fizik Antares

A new leather cover for this Fizik Antares saddle in NZ. The old cover was tired and worn but otherwise the saddle was structurally sound. Extending the life of the saddle and simple so it would work with many different bikes. The leather is full aniline vegetable tanned kangaroo. We love the character that the scars and imperfections in the skin bring to the saddle.

Berk Black on Black

Will's black on black Berk Lupina Short. New 3mm EVA foam and covered in a kangaroo perforated leather. Minimal and classic.