BOOKS & DAVIDE
Bacon sandwiches and the oil that kept sewing machines running were the smells of Davide’s childhood. After graduating as an architect he was drawn into the family trade of tailoring, he was the fourth generation. The books, his ‘bibles’, were given to him by ‘Big John’, his grandfather’s partner in the business. First published in 1928 the books detail everything from the idiosyncrasies of American customers to book keeping to drafting a coat for a ‘corpulent’ figure. Davide had had the books for just one week when he learnt that John had died, John’s wife said Davide should keep the books. They still provide Davide with useful information but more importantly are a physical manifestation of his family’s tailoring history and their part in continuing the trade in London today.
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