Our story · Bana
A small atelier with a long view
Bana makes a short list of handbags and keeps it short on purpose. We would rather perfect ten bags than offer a hundred.
Founded on a single idea: a handbag should get better the longer you carry it.
The beginning
How it started
Bana began with a bag that outlived three owners. It was a plain tan satchel that had been carried to work, to school, and finally to the market, and it looked better with every scuff.
We asked a simple question: why do so few bags get the chance to age like that? Most are made to look perfect on day one and tired by year two.
So we set out to make the opposite: a short list of handbags, in leather chosen to improve with use, sewn by one maker, and repaired for life.
Craftsmanship
The craft
Every Bana bag passes through the same hands from the first cut to the last polish. It takes a little over a day of work, spread across a week so the glue, the paint and the leather can rest.
Leather first
Italian vegetable-tanned calfskin, picked hide by hide.
Hardware that lasts
Solid brass, brushed gold, set by hand and replaceable.
Made to be repaired
Hand stitching means a seam can always be reopened and renewed.
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- hand steps per bag
- 11 h
- of work in each one
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- maker, start to finish
- 14 days
- to change your mind
Mission
To make a small number of beautiful, honest handbags, and to stand behind every one of them for as long as you carry it.
Vision
A wardrobe with fewer, better things in it: bags that become heirlooms, repaired and handed down instead of replaced.
What we stand for
Every design starts with a question: will someone still want to carry this in ten years? If the answer is not an easy yes, it does not leave the sketchbook.
We work with Italian tanneries that use vegetable tanning, which gives leather a warm, natural colour and a surface that deepens with use. We pair it with solid brass hardware, plated in brushed gold, because it lasts and it can be repaired.
Our bags are made in small batches by a small team, and we deliver them ourselves across Lebanon through a trusted courier. You pay cash when the bag arrives: you see it, you hold it, and then you pay.
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Fewer, better
A short collection, refined season after season.
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Honest materials
Full-grain and top-grain leather, solid hardware, no plastic shortcuts.
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Care for life
We repair what we make, and teach you to look after it.
Timeline
The story so far
Sample story for this demo: replace with the real one.
2016
The first sketchbook
A tan satchel, a notebook and a promise to build something that lasts.
2018
A workshop of our own
A small bench, a few tools and a shelf of hides, in a stone building in Beirut.
2020
Ten bags
The first collection: ten silhouettes, each refined over dozens of prototypes.
2022
Tanners we trust
Long-term partnerships with two Italian vegetable tanneries.
2024
Home delivery, pay on arrival
A courier network across Lebanon and cash on delivery, so you hold the bag before you pay.
2026
Care for life
Our repair and refresh service, so every bag can keep going.
See the collection
Ten bags, each made to be carried for a lifetime. Pay in cash when yours arrives.
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