Leather

By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, October 17, 2006

All prices retail

American Leather

SP 5th floor

• Traditional styling is refreshed with a series of accent chairs and sofas featuring channel stitching and tufted pillow details, serpentine settee seating, and a new concept in traditional dining seating.

• The domestic manufacturer unveils its latest Comfort Sleeper, with design inspiration from Vladimir Kagan.

• Designer Rick Lee introduces a collection of ottomans and other modular seating con-figurations.

Aspenhome

IHFC M-604

Expanding Tuscan-inspired Barolo leather collection.

Bentley Churchill Furniture

200 N. Hamilton St.

• High-end manufacturer filling design void with custom looks.

• New items with standard spring fiberdown cushioning include the Cascades chair, leather with channel-back styling and low arms; wood bun feet in varied finishes.

• Raffles sectional combines leather and fabric in dramatic fashion. Toss pillows with goose-down fill for added comfort, hand-tufted arms and back, kick pleat skirt standard.

Best Home Furnishings

239 S. Main St.

• Leather chair additions include No. 3350, featuring spiral arm posts, legs and stretchers; heavily carved knuckle arms; square back with carving at top; double corded front; and "open back" upholstery. Offered in all-fabric or leather seat/fabric back combination.

• No. 0720 is an 18-point tufted back traditional wing chair in fabric, leather or leather/vinyl, with baseball stitching details.

Bradington-Young

IHFC C-1057

• Trending toward more casual looks, domestic program offers such custom styling details as shapes, turns, cover application and special orders.

• Club chairs emphasize mixed combinations of tooled leathers, anilines and fabrics. Six options, three packages.

• Capitalizing on its domestic capability, the stationary sectional program offers an accompanying reclining chair or a freestanding stationary chair.

• Rounding out its chair program by replicating best-selling stationary club chairs as reclining chairs, and vice versa.

• Expanded Seven Seas import program offering tightly tailored traditional sofas to match existing club chairs. Chinese-made goods built to Bra-dington-Young specifications.

Breasley USA

PS 2-625

• Following its North American debut earlier this year, the domestic distribution/marketing unit for UK-based Breasley Consumer Products adds five leather upholstery pieces from British designer Peter Rugman.

• Retail pricing is middle to mid-high on fine leather stationary upholstery and recliners produced in southern China.

• New showroom location.

Bernhardt

IHFC D-601

Parker sectional pairs wipe-off top-grain leather with blend-down cushioning, $2,999. Available container-direct or stocked in Lenoir, N.C.

Broyhill

IHFC C-600

• Six stationary upholstery collections — sofa, loveseat, chair, ottoman — including a rich black leather three-over-three sofa trimmed in pewter nailheads, reminiscent of a sleek Harley bike.

• Transitional two-over-two sofa with tufted back and seat, stitching detail, on wood feet in a "today" look. Matching chair/ottoman available.

• Two sectionals, two occasional chairs.

Calia Italia USA

220 Elm 200

• With contemporary and modern looks in place, putting emphasis on transitional and motion programs, all made in China.

• Urban transitional look featured on 85-inch stationary seating.

• Adding 10 motion frames, all with Leggett & Platt mechanisms.

• New leather articles include a full-grain sauvage.

• Stationary sofas, $799 to $999; multi-piece seating packages, $899 to $1,099.

Chateau D'ax USA

IHFC D-1224

• Making stationary and motion collections in Italy, Romania and China to hit specific price points.

• Stationary models feature monotone textural contrasts, pairing leather with Italian chenille.

Collezione Divani

518 N. Hamilton St.

• This contemporary division of Canada's Legacy Leather International features frames with feather-filled back cushions, including Ancona, with an extensive SKU program, and Civita, with square arm treatment, $4,995 each.

• Forli sectional is a loft look scaled for smaller spaces and targeting younger consumers, $3,995.

• Extensive SKU program offered on Casandra home theater seating, $3,495.

• All seating is enhanced with memory foam.

• Four-week shipping on Forli; six weeks on others.

Decoro

IHFC H-1147

A range of new silhouettes and new leathers address stationary, motorized motion, sofa-sleeper and microfiber categories. Value line made in China.

Designers & Makers

330 N. Hamilton St. S-201

Following its U.S. debut earlier this year, offering high-end eclectic pieces made in Viet-nam, including:

• Havana club chair in hand-colored, top-grain leather, $1,380.

• Hand-carved ebony long chair in Indochinese style features hand-colored, top-grain leather cover, $1,320.

• Chesterfield sofa in top-grain leather, $3,320.

• Armchair in distressed leather with hand-carved ebonized wood, $1,040.

• Leather wing chair, $1,440.

• Tufted leather swivel arm chair, in hand-rubbed leather cover with hand-carved wood arms, $1,040.

• Promotions for orders at various price levels. 90-day delivery. New showroom location.

Diamond Sofa

208 E. Green Drive

Continues to address contemporary trends with imported leather/leather match seating.

Distinction Leather

IHFC H-1120

New offerings and new leathers from its domestic line as well as its Chinese import line, Distinction International.

Doimo Elite

IHFC D-1102

Contemporary Italian-made quality and design spotlights Ottocento. In-stock merchandise for quick-delivery. Remodeled showroom.

El Ran

FP 523

Entries include all-leather stationary sofa No. X155 featuring pillowback styling and lumbar pillow; square arm with L-shaped arm rest.

Emerald Home Furnishings

243 S. Main St.

Stationary leather groups, sectionals, motion chairs imported from China; stationary groups, $400 to $600; sectionals, $800 to $1,000. Ware-house programs based in Tacoma, Wash., and China.

Excelsior Designs/casa Novalia Leather

IHFC D-1110

Contemporary leather upholstery designs, all crafted in Italy. Expanded quick-ship program.

Fine Furniture Design & Marketing

US P-302

Folio collection includes fabric upholstery and an extensive leather offering. Features bench-made kiln-dried frames, eight-way hand-tied coils, 100% down-filled pillows, down blend cushions and top-grain leathers. Chairs in assorted colors in traditional, contemporary and transitional designs, $699 to $1,299; sofas, $1,499 to $2,999. Mix of designs includes the Degas sofa, a classic French design with pleated back and bench cushion. Retailers can mix Folio upholstery with case goods for container shipment.

Fjords USA, formerly Hjellegjerde USA

220 Elm S-214

Under the new Fjords brand, designer Svein Asbjornsen extends his current Contura line with three reclining swivel chairs with ottomans, plus an antigravity chaise lounge with tuxedo arms. Chaise offered in one-, two- or three-seat styles. High-end price points.

Flexsteel

IHFC C-558

Neatly scaled Adderly stationary sofa pairs top-grain leather with fabric on a rollback silhouette accented with tailored box cushions, padded rolled arms, turned legs and nailheads.

Four Hands

US E-201

• 18 vintage leather frames showcasing Old World techniques, including the Baldwin accent chair, in four colors of top-grain cigar leather with rich appeal, tight seat and high legs, $850.

• Horizon side chair ($495), Horizon leisure chair ($395) and West End dining chair ($195) show-case faux croc leather covers.

Fusion Home

IHFC D-709

Ten frames, including the No. 2603 Soflex sectional with corner ottoman, dressed in Italian leather, with feather/fiber cushions and pillows, available in a choice of 60 leathers, custom sizes, $6,500 to $8,500.

HTL International

FP 611

Asian-based line adds frames, including motion and Euro-influenced stationary styles, as well as promotional and casual/contemporary looks.

Hamilton & Spill

CP 118

• Midpriced, two-piece conversational leather seating for the entertainment room, more tailored than an existing casually styled frame, correlating nesting storage, $1,499 to $1,999.

• Also for the entertainment room, a U-shaped four-seat modular motion group with optional center storage console and dual-motion pieces at each end, tailored look, $1,999.

• Value-oriented top-grain stationary leather sofas with sewing detail, box cushioning, contemporary styling, $799.

• Midpriced stationary sofa group in tri-tone leathers with contrast welts, $1,099 to $1,299.

• Three sectionals in leather or bycast covers at promotional prices.

Homelegance

212 Jacobs Place

New seating groups featuring leather and contemporary bycast sofas.

Huntington Furniture

200 E. Green Drive

• Two-year-old case goods importer enters leather upholstery category with a series of fully upholstered frames from Asia. Midrange program highlights leather or fabric covers as well as leather/fabric combos.

• Freestanding styles as well as correlates to case good collections.

• Stationary, motion and sectionals with drop-in coil construction, blend down cushioning.

Jaymar

IHFC H-712

• Adding four designs to its good-better-best ranges EZ, Encore and ETC stocking programs out of Canada. ETC frames dressed in heavyweight bubble grain leather, $3,495; Encore, $2,995 in semi-aniline sauvage leather; EZ at $2,495 for contemporary sectionals or sofa/loveseat group.

• Doubling in-stock SKUs on 16 in-line groups. Rounding out collections of sectionals, sofas, loveseats, chairs, ottomans across all programs.

• Two-day in-stock warehousing.

Largo International

Center Theater Tower 100

Various fabric-leather combinations showcasing exposed wood, including a leather sofa with wood trim to match a case goods collection. Also, aggressively priced sofas, loveseats, chairs and ottomans imported from China.

La-Z-Boy

FP 103

• Stationary additions include the Sheldon T-cushion sectional, $1,999: and the Lexi settee with bench seat, $599. Both offer casual contemporary styling in bycast leather/suede fabric treatment.

• Rhoda, a square, two-over-two sofa-sleeper sporting a casual loft look, in leather, $899.

Leathercraft

117 N. Hamilton St.

• Adding European-style contemporary looks for the first time, and showing more leather/fabric combinations using COM fabrics and Leath-ercraft's own leathers.

• Low-silhouette European contemporary sofa, No. 4150, with eight-way hand-tied construction, aluminum legs, $3,995.

• Traditional loose-pillowback sofa, No. 2230, features canted arms, shaped legs, eight-way hand-tied spring suspension, down and feather back pillows, $4,500.

• Well-scaled traditional occasional chair, No. 2892, with high attached back, saddle arm, solid brass nailhead trim, $1,995.

• Cross-leg traditional with attached pillowtop bench, No. 133, $995.

• Quick-ship leather/COM fabric combos in 10 working days.

Leather Italia USA

430 S. Main St. 226

Chinese-built entries in full top-grain leather covers. sofas $699.

• Baxter, a stationary group, has padded front, sides and back and pillowtop arms; sofa, loveseat, chair, ottoman.

• Brooke, a casual contemporary reclining two-seat sofa, rocker recliner and fully reclining chaise, with envelope arm, memory foam and fully padded front sides and back.

• Patten, a full-sized reclining sofa, reclining loveseat and rocker recliner, tailored box seating with pillowtop styling and detailed stitching.

• Quick-ship program and N.C. warehouse. New showroom location.

Leathertrend

PS 300

More than 60 new frames across all upholstery categories, including motorized motion options.

Legacy Leather International

518 N. Hamilton St.

New sofa styles, all eight-way, hand-tied frames, are:

• Elba, a leather/fabric collage with embossed leather front rail and accents from Nicopel with high arms, scatter-back pillows, $1,999.

• Marque is a leather/fabric collage sofa with tufted leather back, $1,999.

• Tiziano, a traditional three-over-three sofa on turned brass legs, brass nailhead trim; in soft hand-wiped leather from Euro Leather, $1,799.

• Nolan has ram's horn back styling, scalloped front and nailheads. In Nicopel leather, $1,799.

• Quick-ship on 75 leathers; multiple SKUs per style.

Luana Living

325 Russell Ave., 2nd level

• Following its April debut, the importer is doubling its space to offer more contemporary/transitional products.

• Line extensions include 14 sofa/sectional groups, featuring the Chagall sofa, a vintage look combining two pull-up leathers, embossed crocodile leather and spice-tone fabric on distressed carved wood base, all with drop-in coils, spring seating and feather/fiber blend cushioning and pillows, $1,199.

• Five ottomans, four wood-frame accent chairs and two occasional table collections.

• Container-direct exclusive designs made in China.

Manwah Holdings/Cheers

330 S. Main St.

Ten motion sofas and sectionals; 10 stationary sofa groups; an expanded recliner program; and home theater additions.

Maria Yee

IHFC D-1109

• Ventana Vista sofa chair in U.S. full-grain leather on contemporary open wood frame, $1,399.

• Shinto Shogun sofa in dyed aniline cover, hand-tailored details, $3,229.

• Tiburon collection emphasizes California contemporary design while incorporating curves.

• Developing stocking and non-stocking programs.

McKinley Leather

310 Hamilton Court S-304-395

• Continuing to emphasize customization options and its own finely tailored looks by adding to its J. Neal Collection of chairs. Style No. 2411, No. 2410 chair/ottoman set features beefy rope twist base with plush back pillow and cushion. Leather is hand-rubbed after production to lighten dark brown topcoat for an aged appeal. Cover from Leather Miracles, $2,500.

• Cocktail ottoman with interwoven leather straps for chunky masculine appeal, luggage details, and clean lines. In leather from Moore & Giles, $1,300.

• All product is made in Claremont, N.C., on three- to four-week turnaround.

Natuzzi Americas

130 W. Commerce St.

Style No. A399, a two-over-two transitional sofa in large grain protected leather, in a somewhat mottled effect, $1,399.

New World Trading

SMS M-842

Old World themes, Western styling and Spanish influences in a mix of hand-tooled leather home furnishings and accessories.

Norwalk Furniture

215 S. Main St.

• Meriwether, a classic transitional leather sofa featuring tufted inside back and arms, crescent front profile and sleek tight seat, in Carroll Leather.

• Sasha, a versatile cocktail ottoman with lower shelf and legs in walnut finish. Biscuit tufted, buttoned top. Leather from Tiger Imports.

Palatial Furniture

NFM 803

• Twelve new upholstery pieces, including Oxford, a slim 75-inch sofa perfect for office or den. Traditionally styled with button tufting, slender arms, eight-way hand-tied, blend/down seating. Matching chair, ottoman available. Imported from China.

• Eight new leathers; three executive swivel/tilt chairs.

Palliser

220 Elm 400

Repositioning through seven major initiatives:

• Continuing production in Canada and Mexico, including stationary and motion, leather and fabric upholstery, $899 to $1,999 for stationary leather seating.

• Strategic alliance with two factories in China to offer competitive opening-price-point products.

• Launching Chinese pro-gram, Palliser Direct, with 54 pieces targeting $599 for stationary all-leather sofas.

• Cosmopolitan Collection, 25 classic frames suited to today's urban/loft style. Wide assortment of leather, fabric, microfiber covers.

• Expanding premium Horizons line with 13 frames in natural leathers, $1,299 to $1,999. Offered in stationary sofas and sectionals.

• New motion program, Move In Style, has 35 models opening at $699 for microfiber, $799 for leather match, slightly higher for all-leather. Matching sec-tionals, sleepers and station-ary pieces available. Over 100 cover choices.

• 10-10-10 program: Priority 1 offers a choice of 10 top-selling frames and 10 covers in 10 days. Stationary and motion in leather ($899) and microfiber ($799), produced domestically. Ideal for smaller dealers.

Parker Southern

200 N. Hamilton St. 103

• Strengthening its Western styles with leather, hair-on-hide and leather/fabric combinations.

• Adding upscale sofa, occasional chairs and barstool with leather/hide combination in harlequin design, $999.

Premier Furniture

NFM 501

Among 40 models from this Chinese manufacturer is Newcastle, a stationary sofa mixing hand-wiped leather available in three colors, Richloom fabric; down-filled back pillows and spring-on-spring seating, stationary and motion, sofas, $899 to $1,299.

Simon Li Furniture/Trayton America

101 S. Main St.

Chinese-based, Scandinavian-owned upholstery maker adding over 30 value-oriented leather, fabric and mixed-media seating groups. Kiln-dried, heavy-duty pinewood frames; corner blocked, finger-joint frame base; high-density, high-resilience foam core seating wrapped in polyfiber.

Sofa Art by Giuseppe Nicoletti

IHFC D-824

• Ylios, contemporary elegance in interchangeable modules which can be combined in many configurations. Scatter cushions available as options. Chrome-finished metal with Plexiglas base, in leather or microfiber.

• Pierre, an armchair with pirouette wheels covered in rubber. Wheels can be covered in matching colored rubber or as the selected sofa covering. With scatter cushions and small, detachable leather-covered steel-framed serving table.

Spagnesi USA

MS M49

• Tuscany-based leather upholstery producer and former business unit of Natuzzi specializes in steam-bent and exposed wood frames on transitional and contemporary upholstery. Various leather grades and color options.

• Styles include Tracy, a three-piece sectional with chaise and exposed-wood accents, and Galaxy, a linear two-over-two with contemporary built-in panels.

• Future, an ultra-modern seating piece in development by Sylvain Joly, who also designs for Roche-Bobois.

Universal Furniture

2622 Uwharrie Road

Wainscot, a three-over-three sofa, is among four leather additions to six-month-old Loft Leather collection; targeting younger consumer with casual traditional styling, simple lines, turned legs, $999.

W. Schillig USA

220 Elm 316

Sunrise, a two-piece sectional in semi-aniline from the Sofashion Collection, offers clean, light, contemporary styling with semi-attached back pillows and tabletop bumper ends, spring-on-spring construction. Designed by Wolfgang Setz in Butterfly microfiber, $3,499, or start-ing-grade leather, $4,499.