klinik first aid kit

Bags: be they small or large, knapsacks, schoolbags or smaller leather goods (e.g. wallets), they are often regarded with a special affectional love: everyone feels this relationship that has developed over the years. It is often difficult to decide to part with such an object for good, as it is both a carrier and container of one’s intimacy, memories, and daily thoughts… Then why should we? Why not give it a longer life, embellish it with a new design, a new appearance that saves it while renewing it?

AWA’s creations of unusual jewellery and of transformation accessories are based on the principles of recovery, diversion, repair and communication.

AWA is bringing of a new way in design which, by combining familiar elements and current techniques, improves and transforms an object into another. We design “enlightened” accessories open to the possibilities of individual combinations that do bear values mixed between the past and the future so as to live in an eco-friendly present.

We work with leather scraps

Various leather patches with custom embossing

These repair items are also offered and packaged into chic kits for a quality recycling that brings about customers’ creativity.

Repair of a backpack handle using an prefabricated Klinik element

Reparation lowtech, only a few basic tools are needed to carry ou the operation

Hide a hole or stain by applying one of our leather patches

For all these reasons, AWA is developing the KLINIK project, bringing together pieces and offers a ‘first aid kit’ for leather goods. Using various leather scraps, we develop playful, prefabricated leather items for reconditioning for and by individuals – very much like bandages, splints, and prostheses. These repair items are also offered and packaged into chic kits for a quality recycling that brings about customers’ creativity.

Cover imperfections while personalizing

The range of uses is wide: applying unexpected touches and add-ons brightens up your item, strengthens its weaknesses by hiding a hole or stain. Similarly, a repair piece can replace a broken element, such as a covering piece or a strap, and even change the use of your object: for example, by installing a link (a fastening tab), your bag turns into a backpack, and a pouch into a handbag…