Cervo Volante AG

At Cervo Volante, we develop and manufacture ecological leather and work it into high quality shoes, jackets and accessories made of Swiss wild deerhides. Approximately 15’000 red deer are hunted annualy in Switzerland. Astonishingly, the majority of these deer hides are disposed. This has occupied the biologist and hunter Conny Thiel-Egenter and the economist and chemist Kadri Vunder Fontana since spring 2016. In 2017 we founded the Swiss enterprise Cervo Volante and began to develop our first fully sustainable product line. We thrive to minimize the ecological footprint at every step of our production chain including the conservation of the hides, the transport, the leather processing, the shoe manufacturing and other constituents of our creations. We collect the skins at local butcheries in the mountains. We preserve them either by drying or by deep freezing in order to avoid the use of an enormous amount of salt. After more than two years of intensive work in this line of thought, the team has grown to include six members. Today, Cervo Volante offers six different styles of shoes in five unique natural colours. True to our principles, all of our products derive from deer that have been hunted and tanned in the Swiss Alps according to the highest ecological criteria and traditional handcraft.