Journal

Design · 14 August 2026

The case for one black shoe

Why the first thing KOVÉN made was also the plainest.

Materials · 30 July 2026
Reading a material
Suede, nubuck, patent and calf are not four colours of the same thing.
Place · 2 July 2026
Lagos, in leather and concrete
Notes on the city's modernist buildings and what a shoe can learn from them.