Bastille
A fully handstitched wingtip full-brogue single monk in a dramatic two-tone Mantis Green and Cherry Red patina. A cherry-red wingtip and saddle wrap a mantis-green vamp insert, joined by dense hand-punched brogue perforations along a scalloped W-seam. Polished silver buckle, dark espresso lined. Cut, lasted, and stitched by hand at our atelier.
The W-Seam Wingtip & the Tigris 6
The Bastille rests on the Tigris 6 last — a sharp, elongated Italian dress last with an almond toe and a closed instep. It is a single-monk-strap wingtip full-brogue — the most decorated silhouette in our shoe range, cut into two contrasting materials of the same weight of full-grain calf.
The wingtip, quarters, heel counter, and monk strap are patinated in a deep hand-burnished Cherry Red. The vamp insert — the classic "W" that sits behind the wingtip — is set separately in Mantis Green, hand-burnished under wax to a glossy contrast. Where the two colours meet, a scalloped W-shaped seam is decorated with dense hand-punched brogue perforations along both edges — a lace-thick decorative border that reads as the shoe's headline.
Across the throat, a single leather strap crosses on the diagonal and closes with a polished silver square buckle. Lined throughout in dark espresso calfskin. Goodyear-welted onto a hand-burnished walnut-edge leather sole with cream twisted-thread stitching visible along the entire welt.