{"product_id":"bontoni-dark-brown-museum-calf-perforated-city-sole-tassel-loafer-crocodile-belt","title":"Bontoni Dark Brown Museum-Calf Perforated City-Sole Tassel Loafer + Crocodile Belt","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the Bontoni Dark Brown Museum-Calf Perforated City-Sole Tassel Loafer, a shoe that makes its strongest argument through the leather before anything else. Museum calf is among the most visually compelling leathers in shoemaking, the hand-applied colour process building up layers of tone across the hide to produce a variegated, multi-dimensional surface that shifts between deep chocolate, warm amber and cooler brown depending on the light and the angle, the effect resembling the richly patinated objects from which the technique takes its name. No two pairs finish identically, the hand-colouring process ensuring that each shoe carries its own specific depth and tonal character. The brogue perforations across the toe and vamp add a further layer of surface detail to an already complex leather, the decorative punching catching the light differently from the surrounding hide and giving the shoe a textural richness that a plain-toe tassel loafer cannot produce. The tassels sit with the easy, characterful movement that the museum calf's relaxed register suits naturally, and the City-Sole rubber sole provides the grip and weather resistance for daily urban wear that a leather sole in this context would sacrifice. Beechwood shoe trees and a matching crocodile belt complete the set, the exotic leather of the belt sitting alongside the museum calf's tonal complexity with a material confidence that the combination earns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBontoni's nine artisans in Montegranaro apply the museum calf finishing entirely by hand, the layered colour work requiring the same patience and skill across a tassel loafer as it does across any other model in the house's range. At 3,800 pairs a year and 26 working hours per pair, a museum-calf perforated City-Sole tassel loafer from Bontoni is a shoe that a serious wardrobe acquires once and keeps indefinitely.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bontoni","offers":[{"title":"7 UK \/ 8 US \/ 41 EU \/ Dark Brown \/ 100% Calfleather","offer_id":58486079979852,"sku":"CONS01751","price":598.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0653\/6187\/1105\/files\/E19AECE6-D15F-492E-8EB1-30CC6A957912.png?v=1787302650","url":"https:\/\/sartorialistamsterdam.com\/products\/bontoni-dark-brown-museum-calf-perforated-city-sole-tassel-loafer-crocodile-belt","provider":"Sartorialista","version":"1.0","type":"link"}