Another Finn Juhl piece – awesome designer from Denmark who is making a big design noise in Europe. We love the black faux leather upholstery and perhaps also style reminiscent of the the 50s.
Black Faux Leather Chair
Upholstery Linen Chair Bibendum Eileen Gray
Upholstery Linen Chair Bibendum Eileen Gray.
We like the simplicity and effectiveness of this timeless design. The curves and the chrome are great.
Ron Arad Designed chair
Fantastic cutting edge chairs from famed designer Ron Arad.
Red faux leather on an accent chair
This is a great accent chair and a superb add
Pink Faux Leather upholstered chair
A striking pink faux leather upholstered chair with some great details.
Black Faux Leather Upholstery Stool-cum-chair
Well, if you are going to have a faux leather chair or stool you might as well get an elegant and unusually designed one like this.
The one shown is the Modern Mars Accent Chair by Zuo.
Sofa and couch – faux leather or real leather
Chic, shabby chic or a bit of a mess?
Leather upholstery is limited by the size of the hide. Probably not that much of an issue on smaller sofas.
Faux leather can have very high abrasion resistance and both can be treated for fire resistance.
Care and maintenance is easier with faux leather. Repairs and colour matching are easier with faux leather, which is important if you under-order/under-specify or just need to buy some more if the project scope increases.
Fire Treating Faux Leather and Vinyls For Contract Upholstery Crib 5
Faux Leather and, indeed, vinyls in general have widely varying compositions. So it is very difficult to generalise about FR treatment.
However, as interior designers know, they are great for contract projects because of the excellent abrasion properties and the excellent ease of ongoing care and maintenance. IE they maintain their appearance relatively easily for extended periods.
Contract projects of course pose flammability requirements for the interior designer to determine and specify.
Typically CRIB5 is required for contract upholstery.
Some faux leathers come pre-treated; perhaps containing silicon/Teflon or other substances within the vinyl that limits or excludes the spread of flame required in a crib 5 test.
However some faux leathers require treating. That’s to be expected to a degree as faux leather is a relatively versatile fabric and can be used for a variety of end uses – but hence the required FR treatment will vary.
We recently treated some black faux leather to pass FR for contract curtains. In that case it was possible to treat the back of the fabric (it had a thin absorbent layer on the back) and that was sufficient to stop the spread of flame.
Another brown faux leather that we make has a speciality foam backing, slightly thicker than normal. Whilst this will take the same kind of chemical as the one for curtains the CRIB5 test has a more tricky flame to deal with. Also of consideration is the adhesive required to fix the backing and vinyl together. This adhesive may not be fire resistant again adding to the difficulty of treatment.
The thicker the backer the more luxurious the feel, perhaps. But the more difficult the treatment can be. Some sort of liner / interliner to the rear may well work to stop the flame spreading in a FR test. However, the thicker the foam backing the further away that interliner might be.
We have some specialist backing layers that themselves once set alight release gases (carbon dioxide) that reduce the spread of flame elsewhere. These backing layers do not noticeably add to the thickness of the faux leather.
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Why choose Leather Sofa Furniture?
Consider faux leather too. Avoids considering the animal issues and has better making-up and cleaning properties (and cheaper usually)
Faux Leather Martindale Test – What does it look like
Ever wondered what a Martindale rub test looks like?
We’ve already shown a video of this <here> however of some additional interest might be the following faux leather samples that recently came back to us from the Martindale testing laboratory.
So the link (above) shows you the machine in action and the image above shows you the circular cuttings taken of the fabric that have been rubbed, in this case, 200,000 times. As you can see this excellent performance faux leather of ours lasted WELL above the industry ‘norm’ of 100,000.