It was always going to be leather.
It's in the name.

To tan is to take a raw hide and, with time, patience and the right hands, turn it into something that lasts a lifetime. It is one of the oldest crafts there is, and one of the few that still can't be hurried.

Sinan Tan has carried the word all his life, as a surname. It took an entrepreneur's eye, and years of building businesses, to see it as a calling.

Turkey has worked leather for centuries. The workshops we work with still cut, stitch and finish by hand, with a feel for the material that no factory line has managed to copy. Their leather is honest: full of grain, quick to soften, and better at five years old than on the first day.

Tan & Co brings that leather to America, and adds the one thing that turns a good piece into your piece. Every order is personalized by hand in our Tampa studio — initials, a name, a date — pressed into the leather as a plain hot stamp or laid in gold or silver foil.

That is the whole idea. Turkish leather, chosen with care. A mark that is yours alone. And a name over the door that has always meant exactly this.

— Sinan Tan, founder