«CAN'T YOU WORK FASTER?" THE WIFE ASKED THE SHOEMAKER. THE SHOEMAKER SMILED. "OF," HE ANSWERED. «I COULD CUT THE LEATHER WITH LESS CARE, AND I COULD MAKE LONGER STITCHES WHEN SEWING. BUT I WANT MY CUSTOMERS TO RECEIVE THE BEST THAT AN ARTISAN CAN OFFER. AND THAT TAKES TIME» J. and W. Grimm, The Elves and the Shoemaker
An ancient fairy tale that tells the wonder of handcrafted creations.
Made by trade, passion, patience.
This is where our story begins and debou [design+ boutique] takes shape. An online platform which promotes creative contaminations between design and craftsmanship, and presents products of excellence, made with care by new international talents.
Independent designers, artisans and new manufacturing realities.
A new lifestyle model
We research and select the best independent Italian and European brands, exploring shops, laboratories and ateliers spread throughout the area. The places of "know-how", where designers experiment with materials, techniques, processes, and give shape to unique, authentic, precious creations.
We collect their stories and experiences, to spread the culture of high manufacturing, create a new lifestyle model, made of quality, research, innovation. A model that promotes a "light", sustainable design that recovers, reuses the material and reinterprets history in a contemporary key.
We start from Italy, a land of artisan traditions, to spread across the border. Bringing the quality of our products abroad and international culture and styles to Italy.
High manufacturing
Each product is made with careful research of sustainable and quality materials
Attention to detail
A careful workmanship, step by step, where each piece becomes timeless
Innovation
Traditional techniques adapt to innovation for a surprising result
Our story
Caroline Stante. Tireless dreamer. Determined warrior.
Ever since childhood, I have always dreamed of creating a magazine focused on lifestyle. Even as a child I used to nurture my passion for design, by collecting periodicals on the subject in each country I visited during my peregrinations. I always tore pages from the periodicals, took notes and observed the different styles belonging to different places. From Italy, visited and admired from the North to the South, going even southern, reaching Australia.
The spectacular nature and proclivity of Beauty that the Australian continent conveys with such ease, represented for me the invitation, each day getting stronger and stronger, to share and narrate the charm and allure of our country, rich in creativity, art and design of acknowledged excellence.
As the shoemaker wisely says in the Grimm’s fairy tale, in order to do things the right way, three are the things we need: time, dedication and passion.
That’s how after years of important experience in the world of business, encompassing marketing for “Barilla” and communications for “Mondadori”, those ideas finally acquired shape and tangible realization. I started to “walk by myself”. Passion became a job and the dream became a reality. That is how debou came to life.