Leather animal series produced in the 1960s by DERU, a German workshop that existed from 1950 to the early 1970s.
The workshop manufactured leather toys as educational materials in the 1950s and supplied them to German schools, but in the 1960s, it began producing these complex animal figures.
The "DERU" animals, crafted from a single piece of tanned leather using exceptional techniques of cutting, bending, pressing, and riveting, were re-evaluated for their charm years after the workshop ceased to exist. They have become a collectible item known as "German ORIGAMI" with collectors worldwide.
Height 25.5cm / Length 27.5cm / Width 14.5cm
The workshop manufactured leather toys as educational materials in the 1950s and supplied them to German schools, but in the 1960s, it began producing these complex animal figures.
The "DERU" animals, crafted from a single piece of tanned leather using exceptional techniques of cutting, bending, pressing, and riveting, were re-evaluated for their charm years after the workshop ceased to exist. They have become a collectible item known as "German ORIGAMI" with collectors worldwide.
Height 25.5cm / Length 27.5cm / Width 14.5cm