About Couragem
We don’t make pieces to be the same. We make pieces to be unique.
Couragem brings two Portuguese words together: couro (leather) and coragem (courage).
Leather, because it is the material I work with every day — alive, with marks, different from piece to piece. Courage, because designing and making by hand, in small quantities, at a time when almost everything is mass-produced, is a choice.
Couragem is an independent leather design studio in Lisbon. Each piece is designed, cut and engraved in our atelier.
Sara · Founder
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Originals
Each model is born in the atelier, designed by us.
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Handmade
Cut, engraved and finished by hand, in Lisbon.
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Small batches
Short runs and one-off pieces. Once they’re gone, they’re gone.
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Zero waste
The scraps from one piece give rise to the next.
Leather has character. So do our pieces.
Full-grain leather, with the natural texture and marks of the hide. With use, it develops its own colour and shape — it is not made to be perfect, it is made to become part of the person who chooses it.
