For the past thirty years, Lutson has been working with Cordou leather to embellish it like a painter on a canvas.
It was in the mid-1980s that the workshop brought gilded leather back into fashion. These decorations, very popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, had lost their popularity with the arrival of wallpaper.
It is in the heart of Préchac-sur-Adour, in the South-West of France, that the couple works with love and passion this raw material to sublimate it.
The leathers are embossed by Frédéric and hand painted by Lut. They are then used to decorate historical monuments, rich residences but also religious heritage.
It is possible to visit the workshop and to appreciate the real know-how of this very particular art craft.
No doubt that you will be amazed by the beauty and the precision of their gestures, all this done in the respect of the ancestral tradition and the use of quality products.
Today, these works of art are largely used by decorators, conservators and heritage restorers around the world.
You can see some of them at the Metropolitan Museum of Art NY or the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
Closer to home, you can admire them in the churches of : Estirac, Talazac, Mingot, Germ and Mont in the Hautes-Pyrénées, Vic-Fezansac and Bassoues in the Gers.
