About

Cortés is a leather goods brand founded on friendship by artist and fashion designer Salomé Coronel and creative director and curator Danielle Juliao, who met more than a decade ago while studying at Parsons School of Design in New York.

Anchored in an appreciation for quality, craft, and materiality, Cortés creates enduring pieces that exist between everyday essentials, thoughtful accessories, and small treasures. Color serves as a guiding principle, shaping the brand’s distinct and expressive palette.

Craft

Each piece is handcrafted in Bogotá, Colombia, in collaboration with an expert leather workshop in the El Restrepo district, the historic heart of the city’s leather craft.

Through this partnership, the brand celebrates the skill, precision, and human touch that define traditional leatherwork while continuing to explore the possibilities of the material.

We only utilize 100% byproduct leather repurposed from the food industry, supporting a more thoughtful, circular approach to good design.

World

The brand draws inspiration and defining references from its founders’ Colombian and Ecuadorian heritage - an ode to simplicity and to the quiet abstraction found in nature.

Looking to natural forms, gestures, and textures as material for reflection, Cortés approaches each piece through intention, creating objects that feel at once enduring, tactile, and discerning.