Simon Hasan

Through an ongoing exploration into the medieval technique of “Cuir Bouilli,” Simon Hasan rejects the contemporary reverence for the staid and pliable qualities of leather in favor of a more brutal and atavistic approach to the material. By boiling the leather to make it irreversibly hard, the Geno series, like his earlier Bambi range of stools, displays a richness, heritage and texture borne from a compound of industrial and hand techniques.