This book block is for our cowhide leather and book cloth notebooks. Their book block can not be bound tightly, but only plugged in, so they can remove and archive the written book block and replace it with a new one.

These notebooks, made in southern Germany, show ideally that a designer's aesthetically motivated aspirations can indeed give rise to added functional value (which, unfortunately, is anything but the rule). In this case, the "function" follows the "form" to a certain extent: The declared design goal was the seamless and open-edged processing of a cowhide leather (the same material from which we have our writing pad made), with which one cannot conventionally bind a book block due to its material thickness of 3 mm. Consequently, a separate solution had to be found for its fixation, which took the form of an insert connected to the leather cover by rivets and eyelets. This in turn, designed as a cover, opened up the option of not binding the book block firmly but merely inserting it, which has the advantage that a written book block can be removed and archived and replaced by a new one. The result: a material opulent, yet design unobtrusive notebook with a fantastic feel, which more than relativizes its price by the possibility of lifelong use.