Craftsmanship
The Craftsmanship of House of Layla Maris is rooted in historic materials, human-scale process, and objects made to endure time, touch, and return.
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This cinematic film follows Italian artist Luca Mancini as he steps onto a balcony overlooking the Amalfi Coast, where sea, stone, and sky meet. As the camera moves across the landscape, he begins to paint in watercolor on Amatruda handmade cotton paper, responding intuitively to place and light.
The film then enters the historic Amatruda paper mill, revealing the traditional process of handmade papermaking—each cotton sheet formed slowly, one at a time. Preserved by the Amatruda family for generations, this ancient craft transforms water, fiber, and human touch into archival paper used by artists, writers, and makers around the world.
Correspondence Atelier
The Correspondence Atelier is the sanctuary of handwritten ritual. These objects are selected for their material integrity, lineage, and tactile presence—crafted to support slow writing, reflection, and intentional communication.
Offered in limited quantities as materials allow, each piece invites a return to the sensory world and the quiet intelligence of the hand, and is chosen for longevity rather than trend.
Handcrafted from ivory Amalfi cotton paper and adorned with the ethereal artwork of Luca Mancini, each page offers a timeless space to mark the days that matter—births, losses, awakenings, rituals, and returns. It is not meant to organize your time, but to sanctify it.
Details
Size: 30 × 30 cm (12 × 12 in)
Paper: 100% Amalfi cotton, deckle-edged
Designed in Italy, painted by Luca Mancini
This handmade Italian art calendar is designed to be hung and used year after year.
An eternal place for dates that never expire.
Handcrafted Copybook | Carl Aagaard Collection | Imported from Italy
Framed beneath cascading vines and warm Italian light, this handcrafted notebook carries the serenity of Carl Aagaard’s A View of the Amalfi Coast. Through its painted veranda, the coastline opens like a dreamscape, a meeting of earth, sea, and sky captured in timeless quietude.
Handmade by Amatruda in Amalfi, each page is crafted from soft ivory handmade paper, a hallmark of true handmade paper tradition. Bound with natural leather and finished with uncut deckle edges, this notebook invites you into a slower rhythm of writing; one shaped by breath, texture, and memory. Whether filled with journaled reflections, love letters, or quiet sketches, it honors the spirit of presence on every page.
This copybook is created using authentic Amalfi paper, known for its elegance, history, and tactile grace; a lasting tribute to the art of Italian papermaking.
Details:
Available in two sizes:
• Small: 5 × 7 in
• Large: 8.5 × 12 in20 ivory cellulose sheets (200 gsm), unlined
Hand-bound with natural leather cord
Cover features Carl Aagaard’s A View of the Amalfi Coast
Crafted by Amatruda, Italy | Imported by House of Layla Maris
An invitation to keep the sunlit corners of memory alive.
Size options: small, large
Luxury Writing Set | Handmade in Amalfi | Personalized for House of Layla Maris
Created for the slow unfolding of thought, for the moments that ask to be written — where ink meets paper, silence becomes language, and the page remembers what the heart cannot speak.
Handcrafted in Amalfi by Amatruda, Italy’s oldest papermaker, the Velvet De-Luxe Box offers a curated collection of fine handmade paper designed to hold meaning as beautifully as it carries words. Lined in deep midnight velvet and tied with a satin ribbon, each box is prepared with quiet precision and intended to become part of your writing ritual.
Inside, you’ll find:
25 postcards with matching envelopes
25 medium business cards with envelopes
20 small calling cards with envelopes
A personalized A5 Amalfi sketchbook, designed exclusively for House of Layla Maris in the Mea Culpa script, finished with a hand-applied burgundy wax seal embossed with the LM insignia
The sketchbook’s open expanse invites your own additions — a handwritten dedication, a fragment of memory, a private mark. Each set is quietly completed by hand, making no two pieces exactly alike.
Details:
Handcrafted by Amatruda, Amalfi, Italy
Premium Amalfi paper with naturally deckled edges
Deep velvet-lined presentation box with satin ribbon
Personalized A5 sketchbook with custom wax seal
Dimensions: A5 sketchbook (148 × 210 mm)
Limited availability