Our story
A bag you can take apart, and build again
Bag & Block began with a simple question: what if a bag did not have to stay the same for its whole life? Every bag is built by hand from small interlocking blocks, so the design on the outside can be changed as often as you like.
01 — The origin
It started with things that get thrown away
Water bottles. Milk cartons. Broken toys.
The idea that stuck was the simplest one: a bag you could take apart and put back together, as many times as you wanted.
02 — Who makes your bag
Two workshops, half a world apart
Both teams are made up of people living with long-term mental health conditions. The work is steady, safe and repetitive in the best sense: it keeps hands and minds active, and it is a real job with a real wage.
Sristi Foundation
The base of every bag is assembled here, block by block, until the surface becomes a mesh that bends and holds its shape at the same time.
Ensuma Empleo Social
The bag then travels to northern Spain, where the removable top design is hand-placed, checked and finished before it is packed.
03 — How it's made
Three to five hours, block by block
There is no machine for this. Each block is placed by hand until the bag is finished.
That is why no two bags are quite identical, and why the design on yours can be taken apart and rebuilt whenever you feel like a different one.
3–5 hPer bag, by hand
2Workshops involved
20 yrsOf rebuilding things
Now choose the one you'll rebuild
Every piece in the collection carries the same story, and arrives with spare blocks and a mini tool so you can start changing it straight away.
See the collection