Art, Design & Creative Athens
The Sandal Maker
Half DayMonastiraki, Athens
Hand-cut leather sandals made for you, in the workshop of one of Athens' last great cobblers.
A small workshop near Monastiraki. Hides from the Peloponnese. Your measurements, your initials, an afternoon of conversation. You leave wearing the result.
Highlights
- Private workshop
- Custom-made sandals
- Initials hand-stamped
Includes
- · Materials
- · Sandals
- · Expert guide
A typical timing
Indicative — every experience is privately composed and timed around you.
- 11:00Arrive at the Monastiraki workshop
- 11:15Measure, choose leather, choose stitching
- 12:00Sandals cut and assembled in front of you
- 12:30Wear them out
Why do this
A private hour with one of the last working sandal makers in Monastiraki. He measures your foot, cuts the leather, and sends you out, an hour later, in a pair made only for you.
Who will enjoy it
Anyone who values an object made by a person they have met. A perfect, small, beautiful souvenir.
A sensory guide
How each of the five senses is engaged through the course of the experience.
- Sight
- Strips of vegetable-tanned leather on a wooden bench; a single bare bulb.
- Sound
- The tap of a small hammer; a transistor radio playing rebetiko.
- Scent
- Leather, beeswax, the workshop's particular dust.
- Taste
- A small espresso brought in from next door.
- Touch
- Soft leather warming to your foot for the first time.