La Vacchetta Grassa

Modena


This supremely cool artisanal boutique and workshop does exquisite modern, vegetable-dyed leather items that range from cute and kitschy (leather tortellino keychains) to hipster-modern satchels and handbags. You can pop upstairs to the workshop, which is a fascinatingly old-school.


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