Furniture Repair and Restore

The first 6 of 14 late 19th century dining chairs. These chairs originally had wicker, which was removed and replaced with leather decades ago. The leather had deteriorated. I replaced the foam and leather.

These are cardboard drawers with a leather face. The leather got damaged during a move. Here, I removed the old leather and replaced with new gilded leather provided by Ron Berry at https://www.desktopleatherlinings.co.uk/

This rather large and beautiful rotating games table got wet from rain due to a leak in the roof. The leather had discoloured and rotted. A new leather inlay was made with gold gilding around the edges provided by Ron Berry at https://www.desktopleatherlinings.co.uk/. My job was removing the old leather and laying on the new.

This piano seat needed re-upholstering as the original material was torn. The customer chose a colour similar to an armchair in the same room. This was sanded down and French polished. The seat has new foam and pull-up aniline leather.

These beautiful painted screens were damaged, having tears and fold lines. I replaced the leather around the edges, put backing on the canvas to prevent further tearing and added 'bottoming' cloth on the backs to finish the look.

The oldest items to have come my way. 19th century carved walnut folding scissors Savonarola chairs featuring hand tooling in the leather. Typical of the Italian Renaissance with a carved Florentine structure . This pair, created in the 19th century, most likely 1840's-1850's, are in good condition. The wood was in good health, but the leather was damaged. I did not want to replace the leather, in order to keep these as original as possible. I lined the underside of the seat and the backrest. It is the lining that takes the strain, helping to prevent further tearing of the leather.

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 for a desk and two wine tables (actually, they are antique vase stands now used as side tables). The inlay was supplied and gold embossed by Ron Berry at https://www.desktopleatherlinings.co.uk/

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.

The leather binding (made from rawhide) hand deteriorated, dried out and hand become brittle. The new binding was made from natural veg tanned leather.

This is a simple Workshop/Bar Stool, which was covered in PVC. Inspired by Bettega Vaneta, I decided to replace the original cover with this woven pattern. I cut the legs a bit shorter in order to turn it into my sewing stool when I need to machine stitch.

This is a set of 14 chairs. All leather was replaced with an Italian aniline veg tanned hide. The weave and lacing were redone in the same style as the originals. Leather feet replaced the missing or damage felt feet.