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About Levantiera

A production house with
forty years of memory.

Levantiera was founded to bridge European brands with a Turkish atelier they could call their own. We are a small team. We answer the phone. We walk the floor.

Atelier interior İstanbul · Klass Deri, 1983
Our Story

From a single bench to an export house.

In 1983, a leather workshop opened in İstanbul under the name Klass Deri. Three benches, two machines, a single artisan. The work was honest and the work was slow.

Forty years later, that workshop is still there. The benches are the same kind. The artisans now number fourteen. The clients are in Munich, Geneva, Amsterdam, Doha.

Levantiera is the export-facing partnership built around it — a single English-speaking team that translates what European and Gulf brands need into what an Istanbul atelier can deliver.

Founder portrait
The Founder
" My job is to make sure nothing gets lost between your sketch and the finished bag.
Ali Ayaz Founder & Managing Partner

Ali grew up around the workshop. He studied production management in Istanbul, spent three years at a leather goods supplier in Florence, and returned to lead exports. He runs every brief through the atelier himself.

Values

What we measure ourselves against.

I.

Honesty over speed

If a sample needs another week, we tell you. If a leather batch is wrong, we re-cut. The deadline matters; the truth matters more.

II.

Skill, kept on the bench

Our master artisans have been here ten, twenty, thirty years.

III.

One partner per brand

You speak to the same person from sample to delivery.

IV.

Documents, not promises

Material certificates, REACH declarations, photographic QC reports.

Forty Years

A short timeline.

  1. 1983

    Klass Deri opens

    A single workshop in İstanbul, three benches.

  2. 1995

    First export order

    A small German leather goods house places a 200-unit run.

  3. 2008

    LWG-certified supply

    We commit to traceable, environmentally graded leather only.

  4. 2018

    Levantiera founded

    Export partnership formalised; English-language brief management.

  5. 2024

    REACH compliance

    Full chemistry alignment for European retail; Gulf market opens.

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