Hender Scheme has made leather shoes for Alvar Aalto's Stool 60

Hender Scheme, the Tokyo leather company Ryo Kashiwazaki founded in 2010, has made shoes for Alvar Aalto's Stool 60. They are made by hand in Japan from vegetable-tanned leather, fit any Stool 60, E60 or NE60, and are there to protect the stool and the floor. Sets start at €107, in threes for the Stool 60 and fours for the E60 and NE60.

They belong to a collection by Hender Scheme and Artek that went on general sale on 10 October. Artek's own Stool 60, which Aalto designed in 1933, comes with a leather seat and legs in "wild birch", a selection of the timber that keeps its knots, insect trails and changes of colour (€542). The A330 pendant, dated by Artek to 1937, has a shade of three pieces of leather, shaped wet and with help from 3D printing, and a brass ring (€1,985). Four coasters take the outline of Aino Aalto's Riihitie plant pot (€88), and the same outline turns up on a clock and a key holder.

The leather is left uncoated so that it ages with use. Hender Scheme works from Asakusa in east Tokyo, a district with a history of shoemaking, and Kashiwazaki has said the collection took almost five years. Most pieces are made to order, and several are already listed as sold out.

The collection is sold through Artek online, in its stores, including Artek Tokyo, and at selected retailers.