Our Team
The Galerie Galuchat project was built by a French family. Our workshop benefits from the invaluable expertise and experience of Jean Perfettini, eminent shagreen expert and author of two books on that rare material. His contribution ensures state-of-the-art craftsmanship and infallible quality control. His son Raphaël Perfettini, whose grandfather was an antique dealer, grew up knowing and loving shagreen. An entrepreneur at an early age, he was the first to launch the project.
Craftsmanship
Galerie Galuchat cases are the product of skilled, painstaking work on the skins. Shagreen, much stiffer and tougher than, for example, cowhide, requires a whole series of operations before it is fit for use. We monitor the entire manufacturing cycle, from preliminary prepping of the skins through to the final touches on the finished case. Now only a handful of craftsmen still master the secrets of fashioning this material for decorative purposes. Galerie Galuchat applies the same techniques used in the early 20th century to craft our cases today. With the craftsman's hand supervising and guiding each step in the process, our cases are unique works of art produced with impeccable quality.
Creativity
Give free rein to your creativity! In our e-shop, you can choose from a range of options and customize your very own case. In just a few easy clicks, you will be able to select your favorite color and pattern, perhaps with a grained center or with your initials engraved on the leather lining.
Tailor-made
Raphaël and Jean Perfettini, the founders of the Galerie Galuchat brand, design and create their cases from scratch. The luxury brands have all turned to this market but without adopting a genuinely innovative or original approach to the materials and fabrics used. Galerie Galuchat, in contrast, opts for a bold product in a range of zippy colors to protect your high-tech items.
Ethics
Galerie Galuchat cases are made exclusively of natural materials. We use a type of ray skin known as coarse-grained shagreen. Our products are designed in France and manufactured in our own workshops in Thailand, where shagreen techniques and expertise are a longstanding tradition.
Galerie Galuchat cases are made exclusively of natural materials. We use a type of ray skin known as coarse-grained shagreen. Our products are designed in France and manufactured in our own workshops in Thailand, where shagreen techniques and expertise are a longstanding tradition.
Skin
Shagreen’s remarkable texture is a show stealer. Ray skin is made up of a multitude of tiny scales called spicula. These minuscule mineral clusters combine in marvellously harmonious forms. Moreover, shagreen's unique geometry lends a specific pattern to each skin, so that each case one of a kind.
Sheathing
The tiny scales (spicula) that make up shagreen contain enamel, an exceptionally resistant, long-lasting material. Long ago, Japanese Samurai reinforced their armor with shagreen. And as far back as the 17th century, Europeans used shagreen to cover the hilts of daggers and swords. Today, Galerie Galuchat’s iPhone cases give your mobile its own remarkably strong, long-lasting armor.