Smooth leather guides
Leather Insight
Leather insight
Analine
(the most beautiful but also the most fragile) Entirely vegetable tanned with the original natural grain and exposed pores.
Pigmented
The leather has been vegetable tanned and has then received a deep dye and coloured finish leaving a smooth appearance which hides minor imperfections.
Vegetable tanned corrected-rectified-pigmented
To smooth and get rid of imperfections on the leather surface (wrinkles, scratches…) the surface is sanded and a protective, pigmented, smooth or grainy look film is applied.
Crust leather
It is the lowest layer of the skin where a thick pigmented protection has been applied. The look can be smooth or grained by adding a relief impression of an artificial grain.
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Natural Nappa is a full grain aniline leather without any application of protection. This finish is obtained from the most beautiful calf, cow, lamb, buffalo, goat and kid leather hides. It is the most fragile type of leather.
Cordovan leather is obtained from horses mainly imported from Cordoba in the United States and crossed with wild horses of the Dakota. Only a small part of the back of the horse skin is served to make shoes and other luxury leather goods, the rest being used for furniture. The skins are stored for months in barrels of oil. The natural colour is blood red – a very dark burgundy. These very dense and hyper-resistant leathers require regular maintenance with specialist products.
