Sculpting: The Resiliance of Leather

Pressure, dramatic Temperature change, Stretching, Wetting and Drying and tremendous Skill are the essential sculptures tools and techniques when it comes to shaping leather for the front of the boot, to create a seamless, crease free surface and tactile form. 

One More Present?

Warm, Happy, Precious, Fun Boots.

We are open everyday in the run up to Christmas. Happy Holidays!

Autumn Tailored

Isn't this the most refined last ever?

Virtuosic Chelsea Boot

For a new take to make the classic Chelsea boot more elegant we took single strips of leather and stitched them individually, to create an all leather boot, sleek and refined. 

Handmade: What does it Mean?

All shoes are handmade, our difference is the 60 pairs of hands of Stivaleria Cavallin, they are the most experienced boot specialists in the industry, only they can yield such beauty and achieve such a degree of perfection. 

Infringe: The Intero Solution to the Fringe Conundrum

We asked our designers to create fringes that are at the same time soft and sculptural, playful and refined, familiar and ingenuous, multiple, but one. They cracked it, supremely as always. 

Choosing from 17 Shades of Dark Blue

The sky is the limit when it comes to selecting colours at our boutique at 57 Elizabeth Street SW1. 

Recently one client wanted some options of dark blue suede to choose from, and she was presented with  ... 17 shades of dark blue! All available for made to order, so be as specific as you like.

...''Of Rare Craft'': Extraordinary People

Antonio engineers the boots, creating the physical prototypes and the digital models. He's at the intersection of everything we know about boots: the requirements of our designers, the characteristics of different leathers for the vamp, the lining and the stiffeners, what our craftsmen can achieve, what is needed for the long term performance of the shoe ... a fine balancing act and a marvelous repository of know how.

He's an avid fisherman, whenever possible he's out on his boat in the Adriatic sea to catch tuna fish. 

#Storm Boots: The Making Of ...

A snap shot behind the scenes of creating a Bespoke pair of boots for Storm Keating.

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#StormBoots: Made to Measure & Made to Order

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The Elegant Performer for the Urban Decathlon

Can one ankle boot be perfect for the school run as well as the board meeting, for lunch with girlfriends and for the soiree? We call it the "urban decathlon" , and for this we created these extremely desirable and practical stivaletti. It's quintessential Stivaleria Cavallin: our best last ever the Q55, a heel that exemplify perfection in design, and an Intero vamp. 

Just in and already a classic. It can be personalised with a choice of 100+ colours and materials.

A Riding Boot for the Palace: Fontainebleau

So immaculate that we are left speechless. Carved from 'Spazzolato' leather and python skin.

Intero: Made Of One Piece

Sculptural (adj.) : Often used to define Stivaleria Cavallin boots because of the flawless aesthetic and extraordinary finesse achieved.

Intero (n.) - Invented by Valter Cavallin himself, a boot made from one single flat piece of leather turned into a dynamic three-dimensional shape with only one seam at the back; still considered to this day the highest achievement in bootmaking.

The Intero boot is the Quintessential boot. 

Quintessential because it embodies our aesthetic credo: first and foremost beauty comes from perfection in shapes, proportions, fit, and craft. The Intero boot is only shape, proportions, fit and craft. There are no shortcuts, no places to hide. It requires absolute perfection.

Quintessential because it is the purest idea: how to recreate and sculpt the contours of the leg seamlessly? How can you create 3d volumes with a single piece of flat leather? Can boots be made as sculptures, out of one piece of precious material?

Quintessential because it is what made us famous. Valter was already an accomplished shoemaker when he started challenging himself in creating the Intero boots. How to manipulate a 2D object into a 3D object with multiple different curvatures in different directions, with only a single cut and join line, following exactly the last and the calf cast? It had never been done before for a boot.

With ingenuity and pioneering techniques, Valter concocted the series of processes that each boot must go through, a magical recipe that today allows us to sculpt any piece of leather.

Love for equestrian inspired boots: the Bourron

Between equestrian inspired boots and Stivaleria Cavallin there is a never ending love story.

The Bourron collection is one of the finest ever. The classic themes of the equestrian boots are revisited and presented with flawless lines, erasing many stitch lines and therefore creating new challenges for our virtuoso craftsmen. The hardware is artfully design by our team and made by our neighbor and friend Mario Agnoletto, an artist in carving and engraving metal (grazie Mario!). 

In each Bourron style there is a delightful interplay between the stunning uninterrupted curves of the precious calf leather and the extensive refinement and complication of the details.

As we challenge ourselves to deliver always the best boots ever in their genre, here we have no doubt that the mission was brilliantly accomplished. 

I Killed My Husband... and Went Shopping

We broke the mold and created a stivaletto that has everything; Edgy lines, multiple precious skins, shiny colors, sexy shape. The exquisite interplay of five juxtaposed sections is a glamorous alter ego of our trademark Intero design. And we are more and more in love with it. Maybe a knee high boot should follow?

(The naming in the title happened when we were super excited with the first version: it was all in bronze calf+python+lizard, there is no photo here unfortunately because only two were made for clients in two opposite sides of the world.) 

Heels for Frieze

Art connoisseurs have landed and so have our heels!  

A new classic

As fashion looks back at the 80s, we browsed our archives (and the 70s, and the 60s) and found a mine of styles that we still love today. But of course they need to be totally reinvented, given the progress in design and technology in the meantime.

So we asked our team to develop a stivaletto that is sinuous and strong, veiling a rocker go-getter energy; the only inspiration was the photo you see. Using spazzolato calf leather, they created what looks immediately like a timeless piece; lots of personality created with a few sharp traits. As a friend said "this is what I need when I want to go out and kick a*** "!

...''Of Rare Craft'' : extraordinary people

Vittorino and Rino are the two precision cutters in the factory and the high priests of our guarded reserve of premium leather and skins. Their eyes and hands have selected and cut a few millions skins.

For Stivaleria Cavallin boots, they select the few very best skins from first grade leather supplied by premium italian tanneries,  and then cut only at the center of the skin. The resulting quality is unparalleled. 

Exotics

Exotic (adj.) - We often use premium skins of snakes, crocodiles, ostriches and lizards. As extraordinarily flexible, resistant and durable materials, they make for a timeless and functional elegance.

Block Heel "Mondrian": An Instant Success

This heel design was created to visually narrow the width of a chunky heel, to have it all: high and comfortable and slim. Thus the two dissecting lines that transform the perception of width and height. Each heel is carefully crafted out of four pieces of leather, to create a perceivable physical separations between the blocks.

In the "Mondrian" version, the colors of the blocks pay an obvious homage to the artist who elevated thick black lines to immortal art.  It featured in our first window display and became an instant favorite.