How Andrew McAteer Went From Restoring Antiques to Turning Out Handmade Shoes

Andrew McAteer is handy.

It’s a quality he may have inherited from his father, who turned a barn attached to the family’s property on the North Shore of Long Island into a workshop for home improvement projects. With time, it became McAteer’s workshop, too.

Today McAteer has a studio of his own in Queens, where he makes wallets, leather accessories, and shoes by hand. Under the Andrew McAteer name, the handmade goods are sold directly through his website and stocked by specialty boutiques as far afield as London and Tokyo. It’s a remarkable reach for the former furniture maker and antiques restorer, who has operated as a one-man business since 2013. Read more at Robb Report.