# Bill Amberg

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Embodying Dyslexia in Art, Architecture and Design

Dyslexia helps artists, designers and architects make connections that other people don't see. Does the dyslexic mind help these creatives innovate to achieve success? Creative director Gil Gershoni and co-hosts Kate Power and Kathy Iwanczak Forsyth explore the link between dyslexia and design with…

Anya Hindmarch and Bill Amberg on Leather Truthfully

Renowned designers and leather-makers Anya Hindmarch and Bill Amberg discuss the new Leather Truthfully campaign, its mission to explode myths about the industry and its role in a sustainable economy. Plus: Akshat Jain of family firm 100Hands on his passion for crafting the world’s finest shirts at…

Designing a life dedicated to craft with Bill Amberg

Having one of your designs in the permanent collection of the V&A in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York sets the tone for someone who’s been hugely successful in their career. A design icon, some might say. Bill Amberg is one of the most highly regarded leather workers in the wo…

Sara Grady and Alice Robinson on making ethical leather.

Sara Grady and Alice Robinson co-founded British Pasture Leather in 2020. The duo aim in their own words ‘to link leather with exemplary farming and, in doing so, to redefine leather as an agricultural product’. All of which means creating a new network of systems within the industry. Essentially, …

3 Days of Design 2024

The Monocle team reflects on Copenhagen’s 3 Days of Design festival. We visit the Danish capital’s showrooms, galleries and exhibitions, where a host of leading designers and brands are presenting their latest and greatest wares. We hear from the likes of Kasper Simonsen, Maria Bruun, Bill Amberg a…

Material Matters (London Design Festival).

Material Matters 2023 was a trade + consumer fair as part of the London Design Festival, occupying all five floors of the OXO Tower Wharf’s Bargehouse on the river’s southbank. I travelled across the city to spend a couple of hours here at the end of my research day, anticipating a medley of cool i…

Bill Amberg in Conversation with Natalie Jones

Bill Amberg is a name synonymous with quality, innovative design and a considered aesthetic. With a career spanning forty years, he has worked with some incredible people on a wide breadth of projects and taken his business across many landscapes. It is safe to say that Bill has seen the design ind…

Bill Amberg on running a successful leather craft studio in the age of AI

With clients such as Paul Smith, The Savoy, and Vincent Van Duysen, it’s clear that Bill Amberg Studio is creating some of the most attractive and respected leatherwork today. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing the studio’s founder, Bill Amberg, about how he first became interested in lea…

56. The Rivet Stool

It’s truly one of our greatest materials. We make shoes from it; clothes, books, bags and furniture. Leather is extraordinary. Over the millennia, we’ve become adept at using it. Today, in a West London workshop, a group of craftspeople continue to experiment with leather – learning how to manipul…