A theme which has emerged over the course of these interviews is that young artists need physical spaces to display their designs.
Today I’d like you to meet Manuel Dreesmann, a leather craftsman and designer who took advantage of the pandemic to open his eponymous store in Barcelona.
After being in business for mere months, Manuel found the perfect retail space in the city centre, where he both creates and sells his designs.
With a small exhibition of finished pieces in the front and a studio in the back, the space has allowed him to curate his own atmosphere; his store could be mistaken for an art gallery with its whitewashed walls and vertical gardens of handmade leather bags of all sizes.
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