Frag: The Intelligence of Leather
For over a century, Frag has given form to the language of leather. Founded in 1921 in Friuli and still family-led by the Di Fonzo lineage, the atelier translates Italian leather craftsmanship into contemporary furniture with architectural clarity. Each piece carries the warmth of hand-worked hide and the poise of measured proportion.
Leather is the first material and the enduring philosophy. Full-grain hides are selected for touch and grain, then cut, tanned, and stretched to structural calm. Saddle leather brings a different register — firm, precise, capable of reading as line and plane. Edges are painted by hand, seams aligned to the millimetre, surfaces finished to hold light as a gentle patina develops over years.
The workshop is a choreography of disciplines: patterns traced with a tailor’s accuracy; frames prepared so upholstery reads seamless; stitching executed with the steadiness of habit. Technology supports the hand — laser cutting for fidelity, human finishing for character. Materials extend the vocabulary with timber, marble, and metal, chosen to deepen tactility rather than decorate.
Collaborations with designers including Ferruccio Laviani, Christophe Pillet, and Michele Di Fonzo carry this craft into varied typologies. The Mito armchair reveals structure concealed beneath a continuous leather skin; the Bellevue sofa balances volume and line so the room reads calmer around it. Dining chairs, beds, and tables follow the same grammar: comfort resolved into composition, detail serving silence.
Frag’s ethos is longevity. Leathers come from certified tanneries; pigments and finishes are selected for tone and endurance; construction is specified to be serviced, not replaced. The result is luxury furniture conceived to mature — pieces that gather meaning the way good materials gather light.
Across the collection, leather acts as both skin and architecture. A chair can read as a drawing in curve and edge; an armchair becomes an embrace set to scale; a bed anchors the room with measured softness. Colour, scent, and touch complete the atmosphere — intimacy expressed with discipline.
To encounter Frag is to sense continuity made tangible: four generations refining one idea until it feels inevitable. In each cut of hide and radius of frame lies a century of Italian knowledge — leather shaped into clarity, restraint, and quiet emotion.
