
Atelier
October 2024
3 min
In praise of the flaw
A flaw is not an error. It is a signature — the trace of a hand that is not a machine.
A flaw is not an error. It is a signature.
The trace of a hand is never perfect. And it is this imperfection that distinguishes handmade from industrial.
A slightly offset stitch, a seam not straight to the millimeter — these deviations prove the hand.
We do not seek perfection. We seek rightness, which is something else.
Stéphane Loubière
Stéphane Loubière · Paris