Furniture Repair and Restore

This piano seat needed re-upholstering as the original material was torn. This was sanded down and French polished. The seat has new foam and pull-up aniline leather.

My job here was to replace the leather around the edges, put backing on the canvas to prevent further tearing and to put backing cloth to finish them.

19th century carved walnut folding scissors Savonarola chairs featuring tooling in the leather. Typical of the Italian Renaissance with carved Florentine structure . This pair created in the 19th century, most likely 1840's-1850's, are in good condition, the wood restored but the leather was damaged. The Savonarola chair is a type of folding chair with an X-frame when viewed from the front or back, designed to fold so it was portable and used during campaigns or other outdoor pursuits. The title Savonarola comes from the name of Italian Renaissance Dominican friar, Girolamo Savonarola.

This seat is from a Korium chair. The leather was torn along the stitches, typical of this type of furniture. The old leather was removed and replaced with new veg tanned leather, stitched, dyed and finished, all by hand.

New leather inlays

I made and added tassels to replace the old ones and treated the leather. You can see the difference between the treated (darker) and untreated (lighter) leather.

This Camel stool needed new binding as the old dried out and became brittle.

This is a simple Workshop/Bar Stool, which was covered in PVC. I was inspired by a high-end bag designer and replaced the original cover with this woven pattern.

I won the project to refurbish 14 chairs. All leather was replaced and the chairs redone in the same style as the orginals.

I was asked to repair a chair seat as a sample of my work.

This camp chair with leather arms, seat and back needed a minor repair and a stain in the seat removed.

Chinese Chair. Ok, it doesn't have any leather - but - what a wonderful piece it turned out to be after sanding, repairing and French Polishing

The top was replaced and the bottom strengthened. The lacing was replaced and holes had eyelets installed to prevent further tearing.

Old leather straps and hardware replaced

These chairs were stripped down to the frame and rebuilt. The dye used was mixed for me by Northants Leather Chemicals Limited.

These were stripped down and re-covered with leather

Renovated foot stools. They were stripped down and the legs sanded and french polished. The covering is in genuine shearling.

This Chaise was rebuilt from the frame up. All old materials removed. The frame sanded and French Polished before rebuilding and covering with leather.