Primo

The Primo in dark chocolate is the leather backpack for the working day, both straps on, the laptop flat against the spine. The Veluna in dark chocolate suede is the softer, drier-day piece: a hobo with a nap you can see from across the table, one zipped compartment, one strap, and no place in a downpour. The backpack does the commute and the weather; the suede does the dinner, the gallery and the clear Sunday. Chocolate leather beside chocolate suede is the same colour at two depths, the grain against the nap. In a dry week the Primo stays on the hook and the Veluna goes out on the shoulder.

The Primo in dark chocolate takes the days with a laptop in them. The Alessa in dark chocolate suede takes the days that only need a phone, a card and a key, on a single strap at the hip, in the softer material that asks for dry weather. The backpack goes to the office and out in the rain; the suede Alessa goes to lunch, to the bookshop, to the evening on a fine night. Chocolate with chocolate, the leather grain beside the buffed nap, so the two sit in one wardrobe without repeating. A dry Saturday afternoon: the Alessa on the shoulder, the Primo at home.