Bags, Wallets, Footwear and Accessories. 100% Cork% Eco-Friendly – natural, renewable, biodegradable. From Portugal to the World… for a better, greener world. With passion, with pride.
AMontadois born from a company with over 40 years of market experience. Our origins are Portuguese, but our destiny is the world… for a greener and more sustainable Planet. We are a community brand for environmentally friendly fashion items, produced with a raw material of absolutely unique properties, our beloved cork: 100% natural, renewable, and biodegradable; 100% unique, distinct, and trendy. With it, we create handbags, wallets, footwear, and many other fashion accessories of premium quality and contemporary design that allow you to assert your environmental values without sacrificing elegance and personal style. Additionally, a significant and growing share of the items that make up our collection are also Vegan-friendly – 100% free from any animal products.
TheMontadothat inspired our name is an ecosystem made up of cork oak forests of fragile balance that only exist in some areas of the Mediterranean, but above all in Portugal and Spain.
Cork is the bark of this magnificent tree, classified as the National Tree of Portugal since 2011. Portugal has the largest cork oak area in the world (33% of the global area) and is the world's largest cork exporter. Cork oaks are legally protected; their felling is prohibited throughout the territory.
The cork from which we make our bags and other items is harvested from cork oak trees every 9 years without harming the tree's health in any way. Each cork oak tree has a story; all cork slabs feature variations in pattern, colour, and texture. Each cork bag does too; no two are the same.
Choosing cork fashion items is certainly um statement...but not only. It's much more than that! Cork is a Premium material. Various attempts have been made to replicate it through industrial and technological processes. They have all failed. Miserably.
Que outro material é simultaneamente 100% natural, elástico, impermeável, hipoalergénico, resistente ao fogo, durável, impressionante, belo, único a cada peça e assim suave ao toque? Nós não conhecemos outro. E se ele existir não queremos saber: estamos apaixonados por ela, a cortiça.
We and a team of established and young designers, as well as the experienced hands that have been working for a lifetime… all their lives. The result? Cork bags, wallets, footwear and other items what we consider magnificent… that speak for themselves.
Faced with the usual choice between selling our fashion items, made from 100% natural and mostly vegan cork%, directly to the end consumer or to a network of distributors and retailers, we decided on a third way: to make them accessible to both.
That's why we created this online platform where: 1) Professionals can create a business account.; 2) All lovers of cork products and the environment can purchase our bags, wallets, footwear, and other products directly.
Whatever your profile, we want you to have a 100% satisfactory shopping experience. For any questions, please contact our Customer support service.
