Jorge Penadés Transforms Offcuts From Leather Factories into Structural Skin.

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This project does not start from an interest in the advantages of a material – but rather from it’s disadvantages. Leather is a beautiful material but very inefficient in terms of manufacturing process due to it’s natural origins. After extensive material investigations, Jorge Penadés devised a new production method that transforms the apparently worthless waste from leather factories, into an innovative material that is made 100% from an animal source. Any resin and chemical components that have been used in the production were carefully considered for their environmental impact.

The result is Structural Skin, a material-based experimental project that celebrates the inherent qualities of given skins while defining a new role for leather that previously hadn’t been considered. The strong material language and it’s visual qualities have been harnessed in a capsule collection, created to emphasise the material’s capabilities beyond the common two-dimensional expressions of leather.

[Images © Jorge Penadés / Project supported by Movex, the Technological Leather Center of Andalucía / Graphics by Antonio García Cárceles / Video filmed by Aitor Baigorri & Jorge Brizuela.]