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This leather is the middle layer of the full grain hide of the cow.

Mid Grain, or “filled” (is 2nd quality), known by many other inventive descriptions, this leather is the bulk of what is sold on furniture today, and can last 10-20 years.

The thickness of the hide, and tanning process affect the life and hand of the leather. The same manufacturers often substitute the inferior Mid Grain leather in its place today. Original contemporary furniture always used top grain leather. If the manufacturer does not state that the leather is top grain, it is an inferior quality.

Top Grain (also top quality), showing the hair follicles, often dyed rather than stained, never “filled”, this is the best quality of leather, the top layer of the full grain hide, that should last 30 – 40 years.

The quality is determined by the manufacturing, or tanning process. Leather, Top Grain Quality The quality of leather is critically important for Contemporary Furniture, and determines the life of the upholstery. Art Deco Club Chairs had coil-sprung backs, loose cushions, and seat platforms, and are quite complicated to reupholster. Before the invention of perforated natural latex foam rubber in the early 1950’s, most contemporary upholstery padding consisted of a platform of coil springs tied together, with horsehair, Spanish moss, coconut matting, and cotton padding. When hand-stitched labor is required to reupholster the chair, the longer life of the more costly natural latex foam rubber becomes more sensible.

In the 1960’s manufacturers developed inexpensive synthetic foam rubbers, with expected lives of 2 -20 years. Natural Latex Foam Rubber could last for 50 years or more. It replaced coil springs and horsehair and cotton padding, and could be applied in very thin supportive and resilient layers, to attain innovative designs that could not have been done with traditional upholstery techniques. Although invented decades before, natural latex foam rubber was not usable until perforated for the flow of air, carrying away perspiration. Natural Latex Foam Rubber, and the development of Modern Furniture Designs Another innovation of furniture reupholstering was the invention of perforated natural latex foam rubber. Due to the limited life of foam rubber, these rarely have original foam rubber padding, and if they do, the padding is now hard and lumpy, and in need of reupholstery. The Pierre Paulin Chairs were mostly introduced in the 1960's, and were upholstered primarily with latex foam rubber. Saddle stitching is a decorative stitching incorporated mostly in leather upholstery, with two or three lines of parallel stitches around seam, that requires superb alignment skills by the reupholsterer, and special double needle machines, for fine reupholstery work The Pierre Paulin Ribbon Chair Requires superb stitching, especially if highly flexible original fabric is not used to recover the chair. Good craftsmanship is apparent in hand-stitched leather or fabric sewing, by the tight and even stitching, and lack of creases or wrinkles. The quality of the upholstery work shows in every stitch. Machine sewing could not be used in these pieces. Hand-Stitching, Saddle-Stitching, and Simplification of Formįurniture Design incorporated simplification of form and framing, and often required hand-stitched fabric or leather in better quality pieces. We can custom distress leather to match Art Deco period distressed pieces. These vintage fabrics are available in limited quantities to reupholster your furniture to give you pieces no one else will be able to own. We have available unused Danish and German inventories of fabrics, from the Panton era, Eames era, Pop Art and other fabrics that are in perfect condition. We can furnish vintage fabrics for truly one-of-a-kind unique pieces, that are not available anywhere else. Our meticulous craftsmen furniture upholstery and reupholstery as originally designed, to keep the comfort they were designed to have. MODERN FURNITURE REUPHOLSTERY BY OLEK LEJBZON Co.

Leather checkbook cover pattern