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<div id="about-h-left">We're hard graft</div>
<div id="abouttext">An Austrian and English creative team fusing together our ideas and inspiration to create all-time classics with future thinking using sustainable materials.
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<div id="left">Based in Austria in the Wachau which UNESCO lists as a world heritage site in recognition of its architectural and agricultural history. We're lucky enough to work from a medieval Schloss surrounded by vineyards and fruit orchards. We're not very big but we're good and we're passionate about what we create. All hard graft products are carefully handmade in Austria & Italy.</div>
<div id="about-h-right">The good stuff</div>
<div id="right"><b>100% WOOL FELT</b>
 We specially developed a 100% pure new wool felt with a traditional German felt factory to fit our requirements. This 3mm felt is carefully made from fine selected fibres and then compressed giving it the perfect characteristics to protect
your precious possessions - sturdy yet soft, water repellant, shock-absorbing and of course environmentally friendly.
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<b>PREMIUM LEATHER</b>
 Our leather is premium Italian vegetable tanned cow leather which feels and looks like leather should. Only the best hides from Italy are hand selected and naturally milled. All of this combined to give you the exclusive feel of luxury. We love the leather for it's natural qualities. It has a beautiful patina and skin structure which matures over time and use.</div>
 
<div id="about-h-left-2">One of a kind</div>
<div id="left-2">Each bespoke hard graft product shows an impeccable old-world craftsmanship and timeless appeal. We keep our designs exclusive by limiting production runs to small numbers, therefore you can be sure that the hard graft product you own is one of a kind.</div>

			
		
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