Freitag Tower

This guide to Freitag Tower in Zurich follows art student Markus Freitag, who in 1993 started cutting up truck tarpaulins to keep his sketches dry on rainy Zurich commutes, stitching bags with his brother Daniel from tarp scraps, bike tubes and seatbelts. It traces how that one waterproof courier bag grew into a business by 2006 needing a flagship built the same scavenged way, out of decommissioned shipping containers hauled in from Hamburg. Ride the stairs up past the shop floors selling those still one-of-a-kind bags.