Re-hided in bottle-green leather
Forty years in a family front room had cracked and faded the hide. Re-covered in bottle-green aniline leather, the deep buttoning tied again by hand, seat cushions refilled and the brass castors cleaned back.
The work
Same chair. Better day.
Every piece here came in tired and went home useful. Drag your eye from the left photo to the right one. The frame and the shape stay. Everything that wears out gets renewed.
Re-covered in Irish wool
Stripped to the frame, re-webbed and re-stuffed, then covered in a heathered sage wool with a line of brass studding down the front of each wing.
Deep-buttoned in rose velvet
The walnut show-wood was re-glued and waxed, the seat re-sprung the traditional way, and the back hand-buttoned in a dusky-rose cotton velvet.
Tailored in mustard wool
A teak-legged sofa worth holding onto. New foam and webbing throughout, then recovered in a mustard-ochre wool with crisp, tailored cushions.
Recovered in navy velvet
A set of eight that had gone shiny and thin on the seats. Recovered in a hard-wearing navy cotton velvet, close-tacked in brass, to match a newly polished table.
Recovered in herringbone tweed
A big square stool that doubles as a table. New top fill and a hard-wearing wool herringbone with hand-piped edges and waxed bun feet.
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