Bring new life to your designer leather chairs
Dario refurbishes the leather parts of your chair, giving them back their original beauty. He uses environmentally-friendly vegetable-tanned Italian hides of the highest quality. Don’t throw away the old leather pieces! He will use them as templates for the new ones.
Below, you can find a selection of chairs that Dario has restored in the past. Click on any photo to see a slideshow.
Bruno Mathsson
Bruno Mathsson’s “Pernilla” and “Eva” chairs restore beautifully, as the smooth curves of the wood meet the perfect geometry of the latticed leather.
Bruno Mathsson “Eva” chair in natural leather and wood
Bruno Mathsson “Pernilla” chair in natural leather and wood
Bruno Mathsson “Pernilla” chair in natural leather and wood – arm detail
Rolf Hesland
A real beauty, this little chair: “Fox”, designed by Rolf Hesland in the late 1950s in the Bruksbo design studio; produced by Haug Snekkeri.
Rolf Hesland “Fox” chair in natural leather and wood
Rolf Hesland “Fox” chair in natural leather and wood – back detail
Jeanneret, Le Corbusier and Perriand
The LC1 “Siège à Dossier Basculant“, also known as the “Basculant”, became an icon of 20th century design. Simple, functional, beautiful geometry.
Jeanneret, Le Corbusier and Perriand LC1 “Basculant” chair – arm detail
Jeanneret, Le Corbusier and Perriand LC1 “Basculant” chair – detail
Jeanneret, Le Corbusier and Perriand LC1 “Basculant” chair
Charlotte Perriand
Selected by Charlotte Perriand for the French ski resort Les Arcs in 1970, these chairs are adorable; full of Perriand’s sense of fun.
Charlotte Perriand “Les Arcs” chair in natural leather – detail
Charlotte Perriand “Les Arcs” chairs in natural leather
Campaign chairs
Franco Legler field chair in deep tan leather and wood
“Moretta”-style field chair in natural leather and wood
Mogens Koch field chair in natural leather and wood
We get a lot of “campaign chairs” to restore. Also known as “field chairs”, “safari chairs” and “Roorkhee chairs”, they offer a good compromise of functionality and comfort. There are many variations on a basic design, from Zanotta’s classic “Moretta” designed by Bernard Marstaller, and others by Mogens Koch, down to to no-name imitations. Each has its own distinct design and we refurbish the leather parts faithfully in the style of the original.
Other classics
We can take your original designer chairs and restore them with your choice of leather.
Claudio Salocchi “Lia” chair in natural leather and aluminium
Le Corbusier “LC1 Basculant” chair in pony hide
Ross Littell “PLR1″ chair in natural leather
Various chairs in the stile of Mart Stam in natural leather
Marcel Breuer “Wassily” chair in brown leather
Le Corbusier “LC1 Basculant” chair in white leather
One-piece chair in natural leather and wood
Squat armchair in natural leather and wood
Katavolos, Littell and Kelly “T chair” in natural leather – from behind
Katavolos, Littell and Kelly “T chair” in natural leather
Jens Risom “Side Chair” in natural leather and wood
Distinctive angular chair in natural leather and wood
See also
From the blog: Photographs of chairs before and after being restored