By Royal Appointment: The Queen and her handbag
18th August 2015
Sam Launer came to England from Czechoslovakia as a Jewish immigrant and founded the company of Launer around 1941. He brought with him an idea that is as important to the company today as it was then: leather goods should be elegant, be formed out of the best materials available and made by highly skilled craftspeople.
Launer championed British, handmade goods at a time when others in the…