"Upholstery is an art  that allows us to interpret the potential in every day life.  We love the challenge of looking at any unwanted furniture and thinking of something amazing to make with it!"

Working in Traditional Style
Developed over centuries, traditional upholstery involves a range of complex techniques rooted in different periods. Using elements such as springs, natural fibre (horsehair, wool, hessian, vegetable and cotton felt), this technique involves craftsmanship, precision and a good eye for a perfect and enduring finish.

Chesterfield sofa upholstered with traditional technique and wool. Removable upholstery parts.
UU0042     Baubau Sofa
For quite some time we have nurtured the idea to experiment with upholstery and reveal to others the magical process that we see.
Each time we work on upholstering a traditional sofa it evokes us the inside of a piano: it is functional, aesthetically beautiful, precisely constructed and very complex to build…. it is an object that continues to reveal itself.
At the beginning of 2012 in order to develop this idea, we created the Josephine B_chair and 5 months later we undertook the development of a chesterfield. The Baubau sofa reveals one of the oldest, magical processes, which in the upholstery world is part of the traditional technique, but usually
this becomes hidden due to the subsequent layers that are normally
added. The chesterfield sofa has the same characteristics as the chairs:
all the upholstered parts can be removed, thanks to the press fasteners
and elastic webbing. When all else is removed, only the beautiful cage of “hand-tied springs” on the seat and back of the sofa remain visible.
"Fern" fabric by Bird in The Hand
Working in Modern Style
Modern upholstery can involve cutting edge techniques and an expansive range of elements, including rubber foam, elastic webs and sysnthetic dacron. The elements come in layers allowing for a faster application  and flexible shapes.                                                   

UU0040    Josephine B_chair


The chair started as an experimental project to develop, on a smaller scale, our plans for the chesterfield sofa, however, it became a piece on its own right: a common chair with quite an exceptional look. Each upholstered part: wings, arms, back and seat can be removed, simply by unfastening press buttons and a system of elastic webbing that secures them to the chair-frame.
The upholstery with modern technique allowed us more flexibility to develop our design for the chair and it was a huge step towards our grand project in traditional style: the "Baubau_sofa" .