Hand-made in Ubrique, Spain

The Madrid

Name: The Madrid — Structured Top-Handle
Brand: Maison Aurelle
Price: 325 USD
Availability: InStock

Designer quality, from the same ateliers as the houses you know.

From $325

or 4 payments of $81.25

Shop the bag

Free returns, both ways

30-day home trial

Duties included

US · UK · EU

Lifetime repair

By our own workshop

Ships in 48 hours

Direct from the atelier

The Madrid

Madrid 30 in Noir

$445

Three sizes · $325–$545

or 4 interest-free payments of $111.25 with Shop PayKlarna

First production run · individually numbered

Full-grain black calfskin with a soft pebbled grain. Polished gold hardware. Suede-finished lining.

You're paying for the leather and the hours, not a name stamped on the inside.

Choose your leather

Noir · The signature

Choose your scale

Size guide

Our everyday pick is the 30.

Fits: A 13-inch laptop sleeve, a paperback, a water bottle.

Live with it for 30 days. Not the finest bag you own? Send it back. We cover shipping both ways.

Free returns both ways · Ships in 48h · Lifetime repair · Duties included

The three sizes

Pick your size.

The same 5′7″ frame, the same spot. Only the bag changes.

Configure your Madrid

25 cm

Madrid 25

$325

Evening & essentials · 25 × 19 × 13 cm

Phone, cardholder, lipstick, key.

30 cmOur pick

Madrid 30

$445

The everyday · 30 × 22 × 16 cm

A 13-inch laptop sleeve, a paperback, a water bottle.

35 cm

Madrid 35

$545

Work & travel · 35 × 26 × 18 cm

Laptop, charger, headphones, a change of shoes.

The bag at a glance

What you are paying for.

1.4 mm Tuscan calfskin

Full-grain, vegetable-tanned over six weeks in Tuscany. The grain is not corrected, embossed, or coated. What you see is the hide itself.

Solid brass, 18-micron gold

Each piece is sand-cast, electroplated, then hand-polished before assembly. Hollow hardware tarnishes within a year. This does not.

9 stitches per inch, waxed linen

Handles and base corners are saddle-stitched by hand: two needles, one waxed thread, pulled tight on every stitch.

Four solid brass feet, hand-set

Set into a reinforced calfskin base. They lift the leather off the ground, keep the structure square, and take the wear the bag would otherwise take.

A saddle-stitch seam in progress on black pebbled calfskin, needles and awl resting on the workbench

Made the old way

Two artisans.
Eleven days.
One bag.

The Madrid is cut by hand from full-grain Tuscan leather, saddle-stitched at nine stitches per inch, and finished with polished gold hardware and hand-painted edges, the way Ubrique has made leather for over a century.

See the craft

The colorways

Ten shades.

Choose your shade

Noir

From $325

Oxblood

From $325

Bordeaux

From $325

Espresso

From $325

Cognac

From $325

Charcoal

From $325

Olive

From $325

Camel

From $325

Travertine

From $325

Bone

From $325

A bag for the day

Where it goes.

The Madrid — At the office — At the officeThe Madrid

The Madrid — At dinner — At dinnerThe Madrid

The Madrid — On the train — On the trainThe Madrid

From the campaign

The Madrid, worn.

Choose yours

The Madrid in Noir, carried — NoirThe Madrid

The Madrid in Cognac, carried — CognacThe Madrid

The Madrid in Bone, carried — BoneThe Madrid

Bordeaux

Noir

Bone

Cognac

Noir

Bone

Cognac

Oxblood

What arrives at your door

The arrival.

Every Madrid ships inside its own unbleached cotton dust bag, wrapped in tissue in a matte cream box. The dust bag stays with you: cover in transit, storage between carries.

The Madrid emerging from its unbleached cotton dust bag on an oak table — The cotton dust bag, kept for storage between carries

The Madrid in its dust bag, wrapped in tissue inside the cream box — Tissue-wrapped in the cream box, numbered card on top

The first owners

Carried, and reviewed.

The Madrid where it actually lives: desks, car seats, the way out the door. And what the first owners say.

First production run · individually numbered · 30-day free returns

★★★★★

“The 30 is the perfect everyday size.”

Lucía F. · Lisbon

★★★★★

“Shipped in two days, packaged beautifully.”

Greta H. · Munich

★★★★★

“Exactly as pictured — no surprises, all quality.”

Astrid N. · Oslo

Aurelle Marchetti, founder of Maison Aurelle, in her Ubrique atelier — Aurelle Marchetti · Founder

The founder

Why does a well-made
leather bag cost what it costs?

Maison Aurelle began with a question I kept asking: why does a well-made leather bag cost what it costs? I grew up near the answer: my grandfather cut gloves in Florence. After a year apprenticing in a Ubrique atelier, I set out to make the structured top-handle I had always wanted but could never justify.

What I learned is that the cost is mostly the name on the inside. The workshops that make the bags, in Ubrique and in Florence, charge what skilled work costs. Everything beyond that is brand. So I asked the workshop in Ubrique, the small Andalusian town that has supplied Europe's leather houses for over a century, to make one bag, properly, with no name above the door to pay for.

The result is what you are looking at. A structured top-handle in full-grain Tuscan calfskin, hand-finished by the same artisans whose work you have seen elsewhere. Three sizes, ten colorways, lifetime repair. From $325, because that is what it costs.

— Aurelle Marchetti, founder

Read the craftsmanship notes

The card on the inside seam

Eight lines.
No further claims.

Every Madrid ships with a signed, numbered card. We refuse to print a single thing on it we cannot defend.

A signed, numbered card ships in the box

The Madrid hand-finished at our Ubrique atelier — Hand-finished · Ubrique, Spain

Tannery

Tuscany, vegetable-tanned

Stitch

Nine per inch, hand saddle-stitched

Guarantee

Lifetime repair, by the workshop that made it

Provenance: Hand-crafted in Ubrique, Spain
Leather: 1.4 mm full-grain Tuscan calfskin, vegetable-tanned
Hardware: Solid brass, 18-micron gold-finished
Lining: Suede-finished calfskin, tone-matched
Returns: 30 days, complimentary, duties included

Before you order

What you'll want to know.

The Madrid comes in three scales: 25, 30, and 35 cm across the base. The 25 is a refined evening size; the 30 is our everyday pick and holds a 13-inch laptop sleeve, a wallet, and the day's essentials; the 35 carries a full day's work with room to spare. Same structured silhouette, simply scaled.

You have 30 days to decide. Returns and exchanges are complimentary, including shipping both ways. Monogrammed bags are made to order and are final sale.

Every order ships within 48 hours from our atelier, with duties included to the US, UK, and EU. The price you see is the price you pay. Nothing to settle on delivery.

Yes. The Madrid is hand-crafted in Ubrique, the Andalusian town that has supplied Europe's leather houses for over a century, in full-grain Tuscan calfskin with solid brass, gold-finished hardware.

Yes: up to three initials, hot-foiled in gold by hand at our atelier, for $40. You'll add your initials at checkout. Monogrammed bags are final sale.

Keep it dry, store it in the dust bag, and let the full-grain leather develop its patina. Every Madrid carries a lifetime repair guarantee, honored by the workshop that made it.

Shop Pay with four interest-free installments, Klarna, Apple Pay, and all major cards.

The Founders List · First access, first 1,000

The first one thousand
on the Maison Aurelle list.

Closing at 1,000. After that we open a quieter list: same atelier, fewer perks.

First access to every new colorway, 72 hours before public release.
Direct line to our atelier for sizing, care, and concierge requests.
One Founders-only colorway — produced once, never restocked.

The Madrid

Madrid 30 in Noir

Pick your size.

What you are paying for.

Two artisans.Eleven days.One bag.

Ten shades.

Where it goes.

The Madrid, worn.

The arrival.

Carried, and reviewed.

Why does a well-madeleather bag cost what it costs?

Eight lines.No further claims.

What you'll want to know.

Which size should I choose?+

What is your return policy?+

When will my bag arrive?+

Is the Madrid really made in Ubrique?+

Can I add a monogram?+

How do I care for it, and what if it's damaged?+

How can I pay?+

The first one thousandon the Maison Aurelle list.

Two artisans.
Eleven days.
One bag.

Why does a well-made
leather bag cost what it costs?

Eight lines.
No further claims.

The first one thousand
on the Maison Aurelle list.