While Mark Tallowin evidently derives pleasure from working alone, a practice he has placed at the core of his three-year-old leather brand, he is ebullient company when he clocks off. When I visit his studio shop on Windmill Street in Fitzrovia for a brief chat, he is at his desk, needle in hand, finishing off a leather card carrier. He immediately takes out a bottle of whisky and two glasses. Discussion ranges from artist Donald Judd’s Chinati Foundation in the isolated…
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