Grip
Where the frame meets the hand, the edge is resolved, not softened. A chamfered contact line follows the grip. The geometry stays precise. Nothing is rounded away for comfort.
ESTRA / Image record O01
Object Record
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The Vertebra
The first Tectonic Object.
A carried structure where the frame is the primary element and the surface is the last decision made. It is an object that can be examined.
Development object · London
The frame exists by choice; it is the visible subject.
The skeleton carries the geometry — boundary, proportion, load path.
Because the frame bears the load, the leather bears none. It is free to do the one thing structure cannot: receive time.
The surface comes last.
Boundary
Where metal meets leather, the boundary is engineered, not forced. Neither material compromises. Each keeps its mandate. The joint holds because the transition was designed before either surface was chosen.
Closure
The closure draws in. Low, certain, damped. The mechanism sounds the way the structure looks.
Time
The frame will not change. The leather will. After six months, the grain begins to shift. The surface remembers where it was held. After three years, no two are the same. This is not wear. This is use, recorded.
Every structural claim is registered. Every joint is documented.
The full making record is available.
Full making recordSpecifications
- Dimensions
- Subject to final production confirmation
- Weight
- Subject to final production confirmation
- Frame material
- Subject to final production confirmation
- Covering material
- Subject to final production confirmation
- Closure mechanism
- Subject to final production confirmation
- Interior
- Subject to final production confirmation
Configuration
- Status
- Development object
- Includes
- Subject to final production confirmation
- Does not include
- Subject to final production confirmation
- Finish / colourway
- Subject to final production confirmation
- Release state
- Production not yet opened
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The Vertebra is a development object. Information is available to press, curators, and collaborators.