ESTABLISHED IN 2022, THE EPONYMOUS STUDIO IS THE CREATION OF FOUNDER LAUREN BROXTON, A DESIGNER AND MAKER OF CONTEMPORARY LEATHER GOODS WITH 14 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN HER SPECIALISM. BORN AND BRED IN WALSALL (MIDLANDS, U.K.), THE HISTORICAL HOME OF U.K. SADDLERY AND LEATHER GOODS PRODUCTION, HER ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCES HER DESIGN PROCESS FROM AESTHETIC THROUGH TO EXECUTION. DRAWING FROM THE DYNAMICS OF THE BRITISH POST-INDUSTRIAL, SHE FORGES A CENTURIES OLD HERITAGE WITH CONTEMPORARY DESIGN PRACTICE, WITH A COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABLE TECHNIQUES AND CONSTRUCTION METHODS. CHARACTERISED BY DISTINCTIVELY BOLD, SCULPTURAL SILHOUETTES, LAUREN'S ROMANTICISED VISION OF THE EVERYDAY AIMS TO CAPTURE THE EXTRAORDINARY AMONGST THE ORDINARY, EXPLORING THEMES OF CLASS, SEX AND GENDER AND OFTEN INFLUENCED BY CASTIGATED GROUPS IN SOCIETY. 

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BASED IN THE HEART OF AN ENDURING SADDLE-MAKING INDUSTRY, LAUREN IS MOST KNOWN FOR HER RE-PURPOSING OF MANUFACTURING WAST, TAKING SOME OF THE 800,000 TONNES OF LEATHER THAT GOES TO WASTE YEARLY FROM SURROUNDING WORLD-CLASS SADDLERIES. 

A KEEN HERITAGE ENTHUSIAST, LAUREN LEANS HEAVILY INTO HER BLACK-COUNTRY ORIGINS IN HER WORK AND REMAINS COMMITTED TO BRINGING OTHERS INTO THE FOLD OF A LOCAL HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE. A BOLD RE-IMAGINING OF AN AGE OLD DISCIPLINE, LAUREN'S WORK HAS BEEN FEATURED ON THE BBC, HIGH SNOBIETY AND NOTION MAGAZINE AND SOLD GLOBALLY.

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