Amien Marghich's videos and podcasts
September 2026
"Architecture is frozen music." (Arthur Schopenhauer) Marble and brass, a skylight throwing its geo...
Forme en bois. Before the Opus briefcase closes for the first time, Perpetual Leather must learn its...
The Opus in Heritage Amber crossing a marble banking hall: mosaic geometry underfoot, 169 hand-assem...
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire." (Ralph Waldo Emerso...
The Opus in Heritage Amber on a railway platform under iron and glass, indifferent to the clock abov...
"Color is a power which directly influences the soul." (Wassily Kandinsky) On walnut: Heritage Ambe...
August 2026
Layer upon layer. A Memoir portfolio in Perpetual Leather, built over a wooden form, finished with h...
The Opus in Heritage Amber lifted from a library desk, 72 hours of master artisan work departing in ...
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art." (A...
The Opus in Heritage Amber: vegetable-tanned aniline leather, 1,233 manual operations, one custodian...
The work beneath the work. Before hand-folded rempliage defines an Opus briefcase in Perpetual Leath...
The Dossier Portfolio Memoir in Heritage Amber, lay-flat perimeter zip invisible beneath tailoring.
"Elegance is refusal." (Coco Chanel) Seventy-five grams. Nine by ten-and-a-half centimeters. Six ca...
The Horizontal Wallet Signet in Heritage Amber: rempliage edge finishing at every seam, 9 by 10.5 ce...
Before leather, wood. Every realization begins here. Opus, Memoir, Estate, Curator, Chamberlain, eac...
"Good design is as little design as possible." (Dieter Rams) Held by the edge, the Dossier Portfoli...
The Grand Workstation Portfolio Memoir in Heritage Amber vegetable-tanned aniline leather, carrying ...
Each stitch placed, not pulled. An Opus briefcase in Perpetual Leather, guided through at the pace p...
July 2026
"The details are not the details. They make the design." (Charles Eames) Suspended from a door hand...
Warm stone, warm light. The Opus in Heritage Amber, vegetable-tanned leather meeting the hall on equ...
One year ago I left Google. The reason begins with a word: maroquinerie, French for luxury leatherwo...
Most luxury brands have pivoted to cutting corners—literally. By opting for painted edges, they prio...
A detailed presentation by Amien of the Lunburg Opus leather briefcase: 72 hours of artisan time, fu...
The Opus briefcase, presented in full. A video is in preparation in which we go through the piece in...
June 2026
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." (Jacques Barzun) T...
Compass, spectacles, an open book: objects calibrated by use, not by season. The Opus, Heritage Ambe...
The concourse holds a thousand departures. The Opus Classic briefcase holds one worth returning to. ...
"Materials remember everything they have met." (Peter Zumthor) Stone and leather share a vocabulary...