Furniture Craft

Our collection retains a legacy of quality craftsmanship and the use of fine materials to create signature pieces of timeless furniture.

Our contemporary manufacturing facilities retain traditional furniture making craft and utilise the highest quality components to ensure your James Stewart Furniture will last a lifetime.

Our partnerships with like minded textile and leather suppliers, allows us to provide a product that is authentic, natural and truly representative of the spirit of our ancestor James Stewart.

Our Leathers

One of our most potent emotional triggers is our sense of touch. This is why beautiful leather, with its softness and supple feel or 'hand', registers in our minds and lingers the longest.

What kind of leather do we use?

Our focus is to handle the leather lightly to retain this natural beauty.

We use only 100% Top Grain cowhide leather - the superior part of any hide for strength, durability and hand feel. Our leathers are chosen from a precious pool representing 2% to 3% of hides sourced globally.

Every leather hide is unique in texture, colour and natural markings. To avoid overprocessing and to retain each hides inherent beauty and softness, it is crucial to select hides with only minimal imperfections.

How is our leather finished?

The essential fact is that high-quality finishing can only be performed on the best quality hides. Finishing techniques have been fine-tuned over decades to determine the optimum design effect and softness that each hide can achieve.

 To colour and finish the leather, either hand applied and buffed dyes (aniline leather) or a combination of hand-applied dyes, and pigments (semi-aniline leather) are used.

OUR Aniline leathers

Aniline leather is known as the highest quality leather due to its soft, natural feel, luxurious and unique colour and natural markings.

The lack of extra processing and finishing of only the highest quality selected hides creates the most supple quality of leather you can find. With no protective layer or coating on the surface, aniline leathers boast superior seating comfort as the leather is able to breathe and absorb moisture.

Aniline leather is dyed by hand using high quality, soluble, aniline dyes. It has not been treated or processed to alter the natural grain, look, or feel of the original hide.

Aniline leather becomes more beautiful with age, with the natural patina developing a deep character over time.

OUR SEMI-ANILINE LEATHERS

Semi-aniline leather is known for retaining most of the textural hallmarks of Aniline leather but with extra surface protection

After the hides are aniline dyed, secondary pigments and/or finishes are added to the top surface by machine or hand. Some of the natural markings might show through the topcoat, so wrinkles, scars, and bites may be visible as in Aniline leather. Dependent on leather design, additional colour is added to create two-tone or other effects.

Semi-aniline leather is a preferred finish for those that want higher durability and protection against wear, stains, and exposure to light.