Made for living.
Leather sofas, settees and sectionals — measured, specified and made to order.
Leather seating considered around form, proportion, material and the way a room is lived in.
Explore the collection →The Monroe
Cognac · Semi-aniline
96″ × 40″ · Seats three
01 — The collection
Signature pieces
The pieces we return to — chosen for proportion, comfort and material.
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The Living Edit
02 — By form
Shop by silhouette
The silhouette decides more about a room than the leather does.
03 — One piece, in full
The Monroe
Deep leather sofa
A sofa built around a long seat and a low back, so the eye stays level across the room and the piece sits calmly under a window.
The leather library
Six leathers, in daylight
Photographed close, under raking light, with no colour grading.
04 — The material
Understand the hide.
Leather is not one material. A full-grain aniline and a pigmented corrected hide can look alike at three feet and behave nothing alike.
- Grain
- Pores, growth marks and healed scars stay visible.
- Finish
- Aniline, semi-aniline, pigmented — three different maintenance promises.
- Patina
- Light and oils darken the hide unevenly. That is the material working.
05 — Fit
Made to fit the room.
Most sofa regret is a measuring problem, not a taste problem. Width, depth and the route in decide the piece before the leather does.
- Overall width
- Outside arm to outside arm.
- Overall depth
- Front of the seat to the back of the frame.
- Seat depth
- Front edge to back cushion — the comfort number.
- Seat height
- Floor to the top of a compressed seat.
- Doorway
- Narrowest opening on the route in, plus clearance.
After hours.
Deep tones hold a room together once the light drops.
Why this specialist
One material.
A world of difference.
A sofa is one of the largest and most-used objects in a room.
Leather differs enormously by grain, finish and treatment. Proportion decides how a piece sits in a room. Construction decides how it feels ten years later.
We publish the facts we hold, and leave the rest blank rather than fill it in. That is the whole idea: material, proportion, comfort and construction, considered together.
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