Caring & upkeep for your
Rue park west Leather article

Rue Park West products are designed in Manhattan and hand-crafted in Venice, Italy with high quality materials that have been sourced ethically, locally, and produced with age-old techniques. In order to best protect your item and increase their longevity, they require unique care with regards to their use and care to ensure they remain in optimal condition for decades to come.

Our leather products are designed to acquire a unique patina reflecting your specialized lifestyle, softening and changing color ever so subtly with prolonged use and time. The presence of natural marks such as wrinkles, folds, or veins are to be expected and add to the uniqueness and authenticity of your pieces. For further guidance and recommendation, do not hesitate to get in touch at info@rueparkwest.com. Our dedicated concierge team will be happy to help address your concerns.

Rue Park West recommends the following steps in order to maintain product condition and natural beauty.

Protecting your Éclat mat

Build to last with a scratch resistant yet elegant Togo leather, the Éclat mat is designed to mold and evolve around your day, and fits comfortably inside your treasured luxury items or luggage when not in use. Although built to be supple and strong, we will caution you with reasonable precautions to ensure maximum longevity for decades to come:

• Avoid placing unnecessary stress or load on your Éclat mat for unintended use, which might result in damaging the finishing, stitching, embossments, or other structural elements.

• Avoid pulling, warping, stretching, or folding in an unnatural or undesirable way as often as possible. We recommend folding your Éclat mat along its existing fold creases.

• Avoid placing undue stress on the Éclat mat double foldings in order to maintain a desirable shape for as long as possible.

• Minimize exposure of your Éclat mat to abrasive objects and materials, such as rocks, glass, mineral residues, etc.

• Minimize contact with water-based liquids such as rainwater, alcohols, and most liquids in order to maintain the suppleness of your mat for decades to come. In case the item is damp, dab the affected area with a cleaning cloth or provided our cleaning microfiber.

• Protect the Éclat mat from humidity and prolonged exposures to direct sunlight.

• Keep the Éclat mat away from extreme heat or cold.

• Contact with detergents (alcohols, solvents and dissolvents), oily products (cosmetics), or inks (all types of pens) may permanently damage your product beyond repair.

• Minimize contact or rubbing with contrasting colored materials in order to avoid undesired color-transfer/staining.

• To ensure the utmost longevity of the Éclat mat’s Italian leather throughout the years, we encourage occasional storage of the product to avoid prolonged exposure to sunlight and dust.