AMALIA LA GRANDE

Name: AMALIA LA GRANDE - Incense - Benedetta Bruzziches
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SKU: amalia la grande Incense

INCENSE

Amalia La Grande is the largest version of the hobo bag inspired by the Lady of Comets. Italian leather, aluminium side elements, zip closure, adjustable strap. For those who need space for everything they carry and everything they’ll find along the way to the Sun. Entirely handcrafted in Italy.

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Benedetta Bruzziches is a brand that puts people at its centre, and it is people it wants to reach. Our bags are made with the care you give to things that matter, and, as you know, care is the enemy of haste: it never sits well with large numbers. That is why the Club exists. Because when you try to speak to everyone, you end up shouting. We would rather speak softly, almost under our breath, and build connections with those who, through the noise, can pick out our sound and catch its nuances. The Club is not about exclusion, nor about exclusivity. It is a boundary, to be discovered in the most positive sense of the word: not raised to keep people out, but drawn to welcome them, as carefully as possible.

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Amalia La Grande is the largest version of the hobo bag inspired by the Lady of Comets. Italian leather, aluminium side elements, zip closure, adjustable strap. For those who need space for everything they carry and everything they'll find along the way to the Sun. Entirely handcrafted in Italy.

Exterior: Deerskin
Interior lining: Calfskin suede
Hardware: Zamak

Width: 41 cm
Height: 45 cm
Depth: 10 cm
Strap drop: 34 cm
Weight: 745 g

Exterior: Beige
Hardware: Gold

Deerskin: Clean with a soft, dry cloth. Soft, porous leather: avoid contact with liquids. Nourish periodically with a cream for delicate leathers. Store in the dust bag provided.
Calfskin suede: Brush gently with a soft-bristled brush. Avoid contact with water and liquids. In case of stains, use a specific suede eraser. Store in the dust bag provided.
Zamak: Clean with a soft, dry cloth. Do not use chemicals or abrasive products on the galvanic finish. Avoid prolonged contact with water and humidity.

The bag will be carefully prepared for shipping inside the Benedetta Bruzziches box, protected by the microfiber pouch with logo.

In 1962, Amalia Ercoli Finzi graduated in aeronautical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano. She was the first woman in Italy to do so. They told her it was no profession for a woman. She responded by designing a drill capable of piercing the nucleus of a comet five hundred million kilometres from Earth. They call her the Lady of Comets. She led the SD2 instrument on the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission: ten years of travel, six and a half billion kilometres, to land a probe on a comet for the first time in history. When her instrument woke up on the comet's surface and answered her, she cried. She was speaking with something that had arrived where no one had ever been before. "When I designed Amalia, I never imagined I would one day shake her hand," says Benedetta Bruzziches. "And yet, on a rainy day, umbrella in hand, she crossed the city by metro to meet me. She is as small as I imagined. Greater than I ever dared to dream." The bag that carries her name joins soft leather and aluminium: tenderness and rigour, earth and space, in the same silhouette. The internal pouch detaches and lives on its own, like every good idea born inside something larger. Amalia is for those who have never lost sight of the sky.

Daytime bag to wear on the shoulder. The Rosetta mission lasted ten years and six and a half billion kilometres. Amalia La Grande is made for days that don't end: the laptop, the diary, the book, the sweater, lunch from home. The zip closes everything, the strap adjusts as you walk. From the meeting to the train, from the train to dinner, from dinner to home without switching bags. Amalia La Grande is for those who need space for everything they need and everything they don't yet know they want.

TO DO

Tonight, go out and look up. Find a star and look at it for one full minute without thinking about anything else. One minute.

TO READ

Amalia Ercoli Finzi, "Quella soddisfazione che si chiama ricerca", 2022. The autobiography of the Lady of Comets. A girl from Milan who wanted to study the stars when no one thought a woman could. She did it anyway.

TO WATCH

ESA, "Ambition", 2014. The short film by the European Space Agency made for the Rosetta mission. Seven minutes. A master and a student on the surface of a comet. Science told as myth.

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Italy Free shipping 1-2 working days Shipped by GLS
Europe €15 1-2 working days Shipped by DHL
Rest of the world €35 2-3 working days Shipped by DHL

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At Benedetta Bruzziches we design bags made to accompany you through life. We believe in the strength of things that last: repairing your bag instead of replacing it is a small but meaningful way to be kinder to our planet.

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Whether you bought your Benedetta Bruzziches bag from an official retailer or on our website, we invite you to send it to us: it will come back to you renewed and ready for many more adventures.

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