Decoration
Fashion
Singular Works
Brotherhoods
Santa Cena Rule Book
A book created for the brotherhood of Santa Cena in Úbeda (Jaén). It is an exclusive design for the brotherhood, made with embossed leather and jewellery pieces inside it. The leather used is vegetable-tanned chamois and it has been embossed manually, painted and patina-aged. A velvet lining is added inside.
2009 Úbeda (Jaén)
Daimiel Brotherhood Banner
This project was a banner or pennant made of embossed leather commissioned by the brotherhood of Cristo de la Expiración y Nuestra Señora de los Dolores. It is a Renaissance design with its feature vegetable decoration, including jars with flowers and cartouches. The artwork is carried out on a chamois leather using various tooling techniques like embossing, bevelling and polychromy.
2012 Daimiel (Ciudad Real)
Noche Oscura Evangelistary
The project of a book to use it as evangelistary in the liturgical worships of the Cofradía Penitencial del Cristo de la Noche Oscura (name of the brotherhood). A book with handmade embossed leather covers carried out following the cordobán technique and jewellery clasps on the spine. In the front cover, we chose an embossed design to remember the place where the main sculpture of the brotherhood is. For the rear cover, we used the image of the Coronation of the Virgin by the Holy Trinity.
2014 Úbeda (Jaén)
Rosario de Salamanca Rule Book
A rule book project for the Archicofradía del Rosario de Salamanca manufactured with handmade carved leather. A Baroque design entirely created by the brotherhood. This design was worked on a vegetable-tanned chamois leather with embossing and stamping techniques.
2012 Salamanca
Roman Soldier Breastplates
The creation of two flexible Roman breastplates, four bracers and boots on embossed leather with designs ordered by the brotherhood of Ceuta. The breastplates designs are embossed by hand on the leather.
2010 Ceuta
Santa Cena Banner
A banner project featuring an exclusive design for the brotherhood of the Santa Cena from Úbeda using the guadamecí technique. The banner size is 55x29 inches (140x75 cm). There is a combination of techniques in this piece like embossing, stamping, openwork, chiselling or blind-tooling. On the other hand, the guadamecí technique adds silver or gold leaves over the carved leather
2011 Úbeda(Jaén)
Romero Zafra´s Roman Soldier Garments/Clothing
Handmade embossed leather breastplate, bracer, skirt and boots for the figure of a Roman soldier sculpted by the artist Francisco Romero Zafra for a brotherhood in Cadiz. Romero Zafra ordered this project. It is a segmented breastplate and each piece has a handmade design on vegetable-tanned chamois leather. The technique used was leather embossing.
2014 Córdoba
Triana Hotel
A project to cover the walls of a room with carved and polychrome leather using the guadamecí technique. This project was commissioned by the designer Amaro Sánchez de Moya. The designs and motifs belong to a pure Baroque style. The leather was first silvered and finally painted. An embossed and silvered leather headboard stands out in the front end. It reproduces an 18th century design. There is a tale attached to this project: the setting up almost lasted a week and three pieces of leather were used in each panel because the walls reached more than 2 meters tall.
2022 Sevilla
Alía Chair and Table Set
The designer Tomás Alía commissioned this project for Casa Alía, a place to gather the best crafts of Spanish artisans and sell contemporary and leading-edge artwork. Meryan created a chair and two tables with original designs made with carved cowhide sewn by hand.
2020
Carved Leather Chair Cordobán
The reproduction and assembly of the leather back and seat crafts from an antique hip-joint chair. The techniques involved were leather embossing and stamping. The hardest part of this job was to find the right tools or bevellers to achieve the desired result, similar to the original chair. It was also very difficult to search the precise colors because the remaining original polychromy was really scarce.
2020 Córdoba
Tangel Hotel
The firm Contract Interior commissioned this project consisting in the creation of some decorative panels of Mudejar style on carved, painted and aged leather for the hotel reception and restaurant. This luxury hotel blends the traditional Moroccan style with a contemporary tone. We opted for classic knotworks or patterns, but in a modernist layout.
2016 Tanger (Morocco)
Bed Headboard
A headboard commissioned by the designers Victorio & Lucchino and developed by the firm Biovital. The selected design was a Baroque inspiration made with guadamecí technique. World-famous designers Victorio & Lucchino presented the piece in Madrid with Tamara Falcó Preysler as product ambassador.
2010 Madrid
Palau Güell Armchairs
The creation of two carved armchairs gilded and lined with guadamecí leathers and baroque designs. The armchairs were bound for permanent exhibition in the Palau Güell designed by Gaudí. These are reproductions of 18th century guadamecí crafts, similar to the original pieces exhibited in the museum.
2002 Barcelona
Château Vervaines
This project took us to the Château de Vervaines in the city of Alanson (France). The plan was to dress the walls of a room with embossed leather panels. These panels were painted and decorated with silver leaf. The designs on the guadamecí leatherworks are from Mudejar and Muslim art, and some of the motifs represent the city of Córdoba. The castle is located in the French Normandy. Nowadays is a research center and a Muslim art museum. Some members of the Meryan team went to the castle to carry out the setting up.
1997 Alanson (France)
Cordobán Hats
A collaboration with a fellow local firm, Aldebarán, to create a collection of hats made of carved leather. This collection was presented in the International Flamenco Fashion Week (SIMOF). These hats featured two different finishes: one in natural colors and the other following the guadamecí technique. Photos by: Gloria Gómez de León (Fashion South).
Sevilla 2015
Barroco Loewe Collection
This worldwide firm ordered us the creation and design of the limited edition Barroco Collection. We produced at our workshop more than 600 bags, 200 belts and 80 wallets for a collection that was going to be presented in the best fashion weeks around the world. It was the star feature of the fall / winter season 2012-2013. The Barroco collection by Loewe reinterpreted the Baroque style which had a deep effect in our history. It helped the use of a Muslim art technique which is still alive at Meryan.
2012-2013
Cruise Dior Collection 2022
Dior designer Maria Grazia Chiuri visited our workshop to start a collaboration with this luxury brand. Meryan turned to its specialized skills to interpret Pietro Ruffo's designs, Dior’s regular partner. The project consisted in leather panels engraved, carved and painted to cover a trunk made to measure for the presentation of the 2023 Crucero collection. The iconic Saddle Bag was also created with the same motifs of the trunk.n.
2022 Sevilla
Medieval Game of the Goose
A 27.5x27.5 inches (70x70 cm) decorative board with the famous game squares. An original medieval style where the squares are surrounded by a double checkered pattern with vegetable symbols and figures with human face and bird body in the middle.
2022
Exploding Raphaelesque Head
A reproduction of the painting made on embossed leather using cordobán and guadamecí techniques. It was painted in 1951 and it is one of the first pieces where Dali fragments the image in a dazzling cloud of paranoid particles. It is exhibited at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh.
2013
Sunflowers Painting
An embossed leather reproduction of the celebrated and renowned painting by Van Gogh, Sunflowers. The material chosen was chamois leather. After its tooling, the leather was painted and aged. The hardest part in this piece was to find the right colors and texture to replicate on the leather the effect of the painting.
2021
Constellation Map
An embossed leather tapestry that reproduces the Constellation Map (Planisphaerium Coeleste) design. This was an order from a specific client. The original is a sky map with two hemispheres. Frederick de Wit first published it in Amsterdam in 1680.
2022