Time has helped Moynat designer Ramesh Nair make his mark in the world of luxury accessories
Creative director of French leather goods maison Moynat prefers to follow his own path when working on his creations, and pays little attention to what might be in vogue
If there’s anyone who understands that luxury products take time to create, it’s Ramesh Nair, creative director of leather goods maison Moynat. “Time is something elastic and subjective, not a static measurement,” he says.
“It’s my decision to select artisans and train and encourage them to take the time necessary, instead of going the way of assembly-line production that is much more common today,” Nair adds.
The helmet case Moynat recently created for DS E-Tense concept car takes an artisan more than 250 hours to finish.
“Rembrandt says a work is finished when the master’s intentions have been realised. In the case of Moynat, the ‘master’ is a combination of me as a designer with my conceptual intent and the artisan with her or his technical intent. We have to work in tandem and understand each other’s intentions,” Nair says.
Take a stroll in Moynat’s atelier on rue Saint-Honoré in Paris, you will find artisans working with their own sets of tools – some invented by themselves for specific leatherworks.
