Our vision

Our inspirations

We just love travels. We love to experience new cultures, new people and new cities, and see how Beauty comes in so many forms. We are particularly inspired by the Art-Deco style, and its pursuit of Beauty, how it infuses functional objects with a combination of innovative design, fine craftsmanship and rich materials.

Such is also our modus operandi for product creation: Innovative, Sophisticated, Functional. We believe we can offer Luxury bags which look stunning and offer superior performance. We believe we can offer these Unique travel bags to all Luxury Nomads.

Our workflow

Every product, every process ever invented by humanity have 3 main elements: raw materials, design and craftsmanship. The combination of these factors - and the final weighted average is what determines each product quality level.

Raw materials

In our opinion, the raw material is the most important of the factors, the base of it all, the first indispensable step, without which product greatness cannot be reached.

With it, and with the addition of the 2 other elements you can procure an outstanding product. Without it, no smart design or good workmanship, will let you ever attain the same level of excellence. Our 2 main raw materials are the following: the finest of leathers for the bags, and for the luggages, the most essential of metals

Leathers

The look, the feel, the smell of real leather makes it the natural choice for all luxury leather goods. The full grain leather we use will have your bags last a lifetime, and can even be, if so is your wish, passed over to the next generation in your family.

We work exclusively with tanneries in France and Italy, which not only produce among the finest leathers in the world, but also follow the latest guidelines on corporate ethics and environmental responsibility.

Metal & coating

Aerospace grade Stainless Steel -also named Inox- has been increasingly used in all hi-tech industries such as jet engines, smartphones, Formula 1, jewellery and horlogerie. These industries have chosen this metal based on properties such as hardness, strength, density, resistance to corrosion or the ability to withstand extreme temperatures. We chose it for the same reasons, and also because our first cabin luggage will perhaps be the first ever on the market produced with this kind of metal.

All these qualities are often further enhanced, by the strongest color coating process available, the Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) process, a micron-thin Titanium based layer which increases hardness and color abrasion resistance. Our cabin luggage is produced with this alloy of titanium-based PVD coating and Inox.

Our design ethos

We are inspired by the Art Deco style, its pursuit of elegance, how it infuses functional objects with a combination of innovative design, fine craftsmanship and rich materials to achieve iconic and timeless Beauty.

Our craftmanship

Our bags are handmade in our workshop in the country which embodies luxury, and is reputed for its exceptional savoir-faire in producing leather bags, France. Every Maison Philippe Montagne bag is handmade, and each is a unique piece made by a single artisan, like a work of art.

Craftmen

Each craftsman transfers some of his personality in his work, as a result the bag has a Soul and is totally unique.
Their training includes travelling around France and doing their apprenticeship with different masters of the trade they have chosen. Once the training years completed, the rite of passage requires to present a masterpiece to the board, and if accepted, he will be initiated as compagnon itinérant, receive a new name and be given a symbolic walking stick reaching to the height of his- or her heart. Some of these masterpieces can be seen at the Musées du Compagnonnage in Paris and Tours, and there, maybe, you will see one work crafted by very same master who produced your bag.

Sustainability

Quality is our choice. Making products made to last is one of the best forms of sustainability.
Most of our products are made of leather, and this leather we source exclusively with tanneries in France and Italy, which not only produce among the finest leathers in the world, but also follow the latest guidelines on corporate ethics and environmental responsibility: eco-friendly tanning processes, free roaming and no-hormone-no-antibiotics animals, no synthetic coating, recycling of waste water.
Our bags are made in France ensuring not only an outstanding quality, but also continuity of a centuries-old savoir-faire, conformity to the strict rules of recycling in Europe, and last but not least fair wages for all our artisans.