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.
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. Read more about the restoration.
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. Read more about the restoration.
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.
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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.
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Katavolos, Littell and Kelley
Designed in 1952 by William Katavolos, Ross Littell, and Douglas Kelley, and selected for the 1953 “Good Design” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, this 3-legged “Dining chair” — now widely-known as the “T-Chair” — became a classic for its simplicity and elegance.
Bauhaus
Mart Stam, a Dutch architect, designed his cantilevered steel-tube chair in the late 1920s. It was one of many cantilevered and steel-tube chairs, including those designed by architects from the Bauhaus, such as Marcel Breuer with his “Wassily” chair. The chairs have leather seats, backs, and arm-rests.
Campaign chairs
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
Dario can take your original designer chairs and restore them with your choice of leather.
See also
From the blog: Chairs before and after being restored