Spotlight: Tratto by Spinneybeck

Brands with a reputation for innovation, reinvention and creativity make a habit of constantly seeking out new ways to use the product or service that first gave them life. These brands hunt down new ways to incorporate their chief product or service into current trends and market needs, keeping it relevant and helping to drive innovation and competition in their respective markets. Tratto, a newly introduced leather architectural screening system by Spinneybeck, is a smart, fresh innovation from the storied leather company. Tratto, meaning traction or stretch in Italian, is stretched CNC cut belting leather held in traction within an aluminum frame with a clear satin anodized finish. Its aesthetic is sophisticated yet playful, lending a polished quality to space divider options, of which many on the market can give a cobbled-together, less than desirable appearance. Tratto’s designer, architect Emanuela Frattini Magnusson, was inspired by belting leather’s durability, and how …