Bookbinding is an art founded on age-old traditions La Tranchefile is a place where the scent of leather perfumes the air as a thriving traditional craft explores contemporary forms of expression. The finest materials—Morocco, calf, pigskin, cloth, decorative papers—are combined under the hands of highly-skilled craftsmen and women to produce works of outstanding beauty, honouring and protecting manuscripts, books, souvenirs and precious objects. Traditional hand binding is not only for rare collectors’ items: it’s perfectly suited for diaries or notebooks and volumes fresh from the press. In providing a book with a special covering—classical or contemporary in design—inspired by and harmonizing with its contents, the binder’s purpose is to preserve as well as embellish it.