{"title":"Wooden Handbags","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA bag with a shell rather than a body\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese are built the way a small piece of furniture is built. The curved body is birch plywood bent to shape, the oval side panels are cut from a single piece of solid oak or ash, and the whole thing holds its form whether it is full or empty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA leather bag slumps when you set it down. This one does not, and that is the practical difference between the two rather than a stylistic one. Inside is one felt-lined compartment; outside, a flap that closes on a magnet and a silver chain that clips on and off its carabiners – long for cross-body, short for the shoulder, removed for a clutch. The maker also lists belt carry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhich of the five?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery model is the same shell; what differs is the stain and the flap. Two close with an envelope cut finished by a black leather corner: \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/mia-wooden-handbag\"\u003eMia\u003c\/a\u003e wears it warm, in honey-stained birch with a geometric engraving, and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/olivia-wooden-handbag\"\u003eOlivia\u003c\/a\u003e wears it dark and plain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree close with a straight flap: \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/cora-wooden-handbag\"\u003eCora\u003c\/a\u003e is the plainest of all, nothing on it but grain; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/flora-wooden-handbag\"\u003eFlora\u003c\/a\u003e carries a small botanical engraving in one corner; and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/flannery-wooden-handbag\"\u003eFlannery\u003c\/a\u003e carries a whole engraved landscape, edge to edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEvery one arrives in a wooden box\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNot a dust bag, not card – a branded wooden case that the bag ships in. As a gift it needs nothing added, and the box keeps its use afterwards.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sac-a-main-en-bois-flannery","title":"Flannery wooden handbag","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA landscape across the whole flap\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMountains, a treeline and open ground engraved edge to edge across the front – the only bag in this range where the decoration is a scene rather than a pattern. The engraving is fine and shallow, so it reads as tone rather than as carving, and the ridgeline runs the full width of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe stain is a mid-brown that sits between Flora and Cora, which lets the burnt lines of the engraving carry without competing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy a landscape works on this shape\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe body is curved, so the flap is not flat. A geometric pattern would distort across that curve; a landscape does not, because a horizon bending slightly is what a horizon does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the one design in the range that uses the shape of the bag rather than working around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecification\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e22.5 × 17 × 7.5 cm, 650 g. Birch body, solid oak sides, felt lining, magnetic flap, detachable chain. Arrives in a wooden box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AmberWood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256685510787,"sku":"CNSK3474683","price":49.35,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Flannery.jpg?v=1780866552"},{"product_id":"sac-a-main-en-bois-flora","title":"Flora wooden handbag","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBotanical engraving on warm brown\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA mid-brown stain, warmer than Olivia and Cora and deeper than Mia, with a botanical engraving worked into one corner of the flap rather than across the whole face. The pattern is small and off-centre, which is why the bag reads as plain from a distance and detailed close up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pale oak sides show clearly against the darker body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the engraving sits\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePlacing the pattern in a corner rather than centrally is the difference between decoration and a signature. It works the way a maker's mark does: you notice it after you have already decided you like the object. Its opposite number is \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/mia-wooden-handbag\"\u003eMia\u003c\/a\u003e, where the engraving takes the whole flap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecification\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e22.5 × 17 × 7.5 cm, 650 g. Birch body, solid oak sides, felt lining, magnetic flap, detachable chain. Arrives in a wooden box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AmberWood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256685576323,"sku":"CNSK3474682","price":49.17,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Flora.jpg?v=1780866553"},{"product_id":"sac-a-main-en-bois-cora","title":"Cora wooden handbag","description":"\u003ch3\u003eNothing on it at all\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same deep slate tone as \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/olivia-wooden-handbag\"\u003eOlivia\u003c\/a\u003e, with a straight flap and no engraving anywhere. Cora is the plain one, and it is the only bag in the range where the wood is the entire design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat you see instead of pattern is grain: strong parallel bands running the width of the body, which the dark stain deepens rather than hides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy plain is a choice here\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn engraved flap fixes a bag to an occasion – a botanical print reads differently from a landscape or a geometric field. This one does not. It goes to an office, a dinner and a wedding without adjusting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the one to choose if the bag will be in regular use rather than kept for occasions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecification\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e22.5 × 17 × 7.5 cm, 650 g. Birch body, solid oak sides, felt lining, magnetic flap, detachable chain. Arrives in a wooden box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AmberWood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256685609091,"sku":"CNSK3474681","price":49.17,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Cora-1.jpg?v=1780866554"},{"product_id":"sac-a-main-en-bois-olivia","title":"Olivia wooden handbag","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe dark envelope\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOlivia's flap is cut on the diagonal, so the front reads as an envelope rather than as a box, with the point capped in black leather. She shares that cut with \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/mia-wooden-handbag\"\u003eMia\u003c\/a\u003e alone – and answers it in the opposite key: no engraving, and the darkest finish in the range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat single diagonal is what makes it the least formal of the five.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eDark, and grey rather than brown\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe stain is a deep grey-brown, closer to slate than to walnut, and the grain shows through it in strong parallel bands. It is the coldest finish in this range, and against black and navy it disappears in the right way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne soft detail\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe leather corner on the flap is the only thing on the outside that is not wood or metal. On a body this dark it reads as a shadow until you touch it, which is the kind of detail you buy a wooden bag for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecification\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e22.5 × 17 × 7.5 cm, 650 g. Birch body, solid oak sides, felt lining, magnetic flap, detachable chain. Arrives in a wooden box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AmberWood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256685740163,"sku":"CNSK3474680","price":49.17,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Olivia1.jpg?v=1780866558"},{"product_id":"sac-a-main-en-bois-mia","title":"Mia wooden handbag","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHoney stain with a geometric flap\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe warmest of the five. The stain sits in the amber range and lets the grain show right through, and the flap carries a geometric engraving – fields of fine diagonal lines meeting at angles, like a folded paper pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe oval side panels are noticeably paler than the body, which is the solid oak showing against the stained birch rather than a decorative choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe envelope cut\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe flap closes on the diagonal rather than straight across, and its point is capped with a small black leather corner – the one soft material on the outside of the bag. Of the five, only \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/olivia-wooden-handbag\"\u003eOlivia\u003c\/a\u003e shares this cut, and she wears it dark and plain where Mia is warm and patterned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it belongs\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe warm tone puts this with tan, cream, olive and denim rather than with black. It is the one in this range that reads as daytime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecification\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e22.5 × 17 × 7.5 cm, 650 g. Birch body, solid oak sides, felt lining, magnetic flap, detachable chain. Arrives in a wooden box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AmberWood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256686035075,"sku":"CNSK3474679","price":49.16,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Mia.jpg?v=1780866567"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/collections\/wood-bag.jpg?v=1788258655","url":"https:\/\/creatifwood.fr\/en\/collections\/wooden-handbags.oembed","provider":"Creatifwood","version":"1.0","type":"link"}