CM 7 + AS Laptop Case Natural

Four objects. Twenty-eight unique pieces.

Leather tells of time. Usually, this story begins when a piece finds its person. With this edition, it began earlier. Over three months, the artist Alexander Steig left pebbles from the Isar lying on our natural leather, exposed to the sunlight. Day by day, the leather darkened – only where a stone lay did it stay light. As the sun moved across the sky, the shadows wandered and their edges softened. In this way, each pebble inscribed itself into the surface with its volume and its time.

One stone among many

The pebbles come from Alexander Steig’s walks along the Isar, which meanders, renaturalised, just a few steps from his home. From the seemingly endless, uniform gravel of its banks, he rarely takes more than one or two stones – chosen by colour, shape and size, purely by intuition. He doesn’t call it collecting, but borrowing.

What remains

The image is neither print nor embossing. It is light that has taken its time. And it remains: with use, the leather continues to darken evenly, while the pattern of the stones endures. Over the years, a second trace settles on top – that of the person who carries it.

The stone as trace

A pebble has been shaped by glaciers and waters over millions of years. It bears no traces of its journey – it is the trace. Alexander Steig says: “In it, its becoming and its encounters have come to form as abrasion.” Things that grow more beautiful through use are at the heart of what we do at PB 0110. In these pebbles, we found a kinship.

The edition

Wallet · Card Case · Passport Cover · Laptop Case

Each object exists in seven pieces, and no two are alike. Every piece comes with a certificate signed by the artist. Available exclusively here. The image of the pebbles shows a sheet (material scan on Hahnemühle paper) from the edition “Anordnung” (2021)

Alexander Steig

Alexander Steig, born in Hannover in 1968, lives and works as an artist and curator in Munich and Berlin. Since the mid-1990s, he has realised more than 300 projects and exhibitions in around twenty countries. Since 2018, he has devoted himself in media-based, project-specific work to the pebbles of various waters – the Leine, the Isar, the Inn, the Eyjafjörður – exploring their temporality, their polish and their shadows. For Ausbelichtet, he has applied this approach to objects of everyday use for the first time.

• Made as a gift for friends. Kept because it earned its place. Our laptop sleeve in signature materials protects reliably, stays slim and develops its own character with every day of use.
• Laptop Case for Apple MacBook Pro 14'' and Apple MacBook Air 13''
• Handmade in Czech Repbulic by a family business that has been involved in the production and processing of high-quality materials for generations.
• Vegetable-tanned leather from a family-run tannery in Belgium that has been producing high-quality leather since 1873 and has been awarded the Gold Standard certificate by the Leather Working Group.
• Calf suede lining made by a specialist in southern Poland.
• We use the highest quality zip that YKK offers ""Excella"". Each single tooth of the zip has been brushed and polished before being individually assembled to the cotton tape. Made in the YKK factory in Germany.
• Designed by Christian Metzner (CM), 2015 Edition by Alexander Steig (2026)
• 32,5 x 23 x 2 cm