The Hall on McKey – a leather collection for Historic Downtown Ocoee
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of original leather design studies of real places. Volume I-A.
A September study.
The Hall on McKey is a small leather collection for Historic Downtown Ocoee. It begins at the old corner building whose parapet still spells OCOEE CITY HALL in pale tile, and follows what a place like that keeps inside.
First, the hall itself. We drew the facade front-on, the way the old photographs remember it – the tiled OCOEE CITY HALL letters across the top and the breeze-block screens standing in their bays – and set MCKEY STREET beneath the baseline.
It looks genuinely beautiful stamped upright on the luggage tags.
The black tag carries the gold.
The same hall sits quietly in the corner of the journals – one in warm tan, one in deep green.
Next, the name. Ocoee took its name from a Tennessee river whose Cherokee name means apricot vine – the flower known today as the passion flower. We drew the bloom full-face, with its fringed crown and curling tendrils, and set OCOEE under it.
Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.
On the black fob the flower takes the gold.
And finally, the vault. A bank was organized on this block in 1919, and the building has kept the habit – it is still full of treasure. So we drew the vault door with its spoked wheel and riveted rim, and let it say so plainly.
A toiletry bag is a small vault of its own, and the catchall tray is where the day's finds land.
We made this out of love. Leatherius Woodman is on a mission to create and share artifacts of beauty, craft and love – this study is one of them, and we hope the feeling is mutual. Every image is a render – how we prototype before cutting a die.
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