Running with the Hare and Hounds
An architecture and design graduate makes his name with quality leather goods
LEATHER GEAR for man and his home comes under the spotlight at Hare and Hounds, a thriving online and business run by Puwin Supalasate, 24, a recently graduated architecture and design student from Assumption University.
Yet despite the finesse of the hand-crafted gear, Puwin insists he fell into the business quite by accident after helping a friend make straps for mobile phones and wristwatches. He enjoyed the work and was soon selling his creations at Talad Rot Fai – the Train Night Market – earning a pretty penny as the young and trendy snapped them up.
When the night market moved to Srinakarin Road last year, he shifted to online sales through Facebook and now has more than 50,000 followers.
“I studied leather-craft on YouTube. There are quite a few videos that demonstrate the various stitching and finishing techniques,” Puwin says.
“My products look rustic and come in natural colours, giving them an urban cowboy feel that my customers seem to love.”
Designs are simple but smart with many items sporting lockstitch in an H shape in honour of the brandname. The quality’s good too with all pieces fashioned out of vegetable-tanned leather from both Thailand and the UK.
Go to his Facebook page to discover neutral-coloured belts, wallets in different sizes and designs and key rings equipped with a shiny brass chain and hook that can be fastened to a belt.
Also on sale are notebook covers with matching pen holders in green, black and dark brown as well as bracelets for the girls in red, purple, yellow, blue, brown and black.
Any home would be proud to own a lightweight Tabak wood stool with a detachable leather seat and plaited leather bucket that’s ideal for storage.
“I’m planning to release a new collection of office stationery as well as dog collars and leads soon,” he says.
LEATHER-LICIOUS
Find out more details, call (081) 832 2633 or visit www.Facebook.com/Hah.Studio
