What color is your board?

B Natural – Soft, pure aniline-dyed leather that patinas over time. Beautiful, natural characteristics of this full-grain leather are self evident. European origin.

Cadenza – Subtle mottling process provides this full-grain leather with a two-toned marbled effect. European origin. Cadenza has little surface protection. Scratches and marks may appear over time.  This appearance is the “character” of the leather.

Classical – Leather with an applied savauge effect and finished with a slight sheen for protection. Top-grain.

Improv – Beautifully glazed full-grain leather with a controlled, sophisticated pull-up effect.

Iridium – Bold metallic finish.  Exclusive finishing technique gives the leather a high level of resistance to wear and spills.

Jazz – Soft metallic finish. Exclusive finishing technique gives the leather a high level of resistance to wear and spills.

Repertoire – Semi-aniline, raddled-looking leather with a waxy, protective finish.

Reverie – Gorgeous, aniline dyed full-grain leather, admired for its natural characteristics. European origin.

Rhapsody – Full-grain leather with a consistent, even coloration throughout.  Produced on the finest hides from Switzerland and Germany., the leather offers a smooth tight grain. The protective, breathable finish provides greater protection from everyday wear.

Rowla Stingray / Shagreen – Full-grain, semi-aniline dyed leather with a two-tone hand finish.

Solo – Nubuck hides that are beautiful, durable, and versatile. European origin.

Tempo – Top-grain, semi-aniline leather with a consistent, even coloration throughout.  Smooth, tight, embossed grain. Ideal leather for the budget minded specification. Fully pigmented topcoat provides added protection.

Psychedelic Furs and Hair on Hides – Variety of prints and colors.  Please inquire.

All leathers meet California Technical Bulletin 117 Section E. for flame resistance.  Meets CA 01350 VOC Standard

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Full-grain leather embossed and finished to resemble the colorful plumes of a peacock.

Elizabeth Baker

collectivedesign@earthlink.net

310-927-6904

Colorado

Wendi Harris

wendi@unek-environments.com

303-994-9746

Connecticut

Daniel Artica

daniel@tarltondeutsch.com

347-248-4406

Florida

Ron Kaminski

ron@rkresourcegroup.com

561-302-8317

Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama

Jim Pietrowski

jimpietrowski@gmail.com

678-469-4172

Illinois and Wisconsin

Christine Neill

neillcompany@gmail.com

773-525-3080

Indiana

Janet Miller

janetmiller09@gmail.com

317-443-0020

Maryland, Virginia & DC

Chad Mitchell

chadmitchell2000@gmail.com

443-360-2223

Nevada

Trish Bradley-Garvin

TBGarvin5@embarqmail.com

702-480-7465

New Jersey

Roxanne Ingoe

roxanne@tarltondeutsch.com

646-483-1066

New York City

Mary Jane Tarlton

347-231-9019

maryjane@tarltondeutsch.com

New York (Westchester and Long Island)

Daniel Artica

daniel@tarltondeutsch.com

347-248-4406

Ohio, Kentucky and Pittsburgh PA

Tim O’Neil & Associates

tim@timoneilassociates.com
pete@timoneilassociates.com
gail@timoneilassociates.com

614-436-4470

Oklahoma

Sondra McClendon

sondramcclendon@rocketmail.com

918-549-5444

Oregon and Washington

Kathy Irish

kidesignresource@att.net

253-517-7880

Pennsylvania and Delaware

Jim Snyder

snyder35@comcast.net

215-859-0189

Texas

Cory Pope & Associates

cory@corypope.com
kelsey@corypope.com

214-981-9119

mbossing is a creative way to develop unique upholstery leather for your client. But there’s a couple of things you should know.

Firstly, as a matter of standard practice, most (not all) embossings are made on half-hides measuring about 25+ square feet. The reason is that a lot of the leather industry’s machinery goes back to the day when embossing was primarily for apparel (e.g. belts, hand-bags).

The implication is simply that if your upholsterer requires very large cut sizes – perhaps for big wall panels, large banquettes, or oversized sectionals — you may want to see if options are available to emboss on whole hides. If they are, be prepared to pay more. There’s more hand-eye coordination required, which means more time producing the end-product.

Secondly, find out which way the embossing pattern runs. As just mentioned, a bunch of embossing plates were originally developed for apparel, so the pattern repeats may not run in the direction you need. This is analogous to fabric whereby you think about railroading, etc.

All of Groove’s embossing patterns listed on the web site were developed for upholstery leather.

AJS Design; private residence; B Natural leather

Calc Design; private residence; Tempo, Rhapsody, Cadenza and custom leathers

Casa Decor Interiors; private residence; Cadenza leather

Chris Reed Interiors; private residence; Solo (nubuck)

Coddington Design; private residence; Cadenza leather

Colours Inc; private residence; Classical leather

Crawford + Associates; private residence; Jazz leather

Crest Office Furniture; private residence; Classical leather

Eric Cohler Design; private residence; Tempo leather

Ferwerda Interior Design; private residence; Jazz leather

Garrow Kedigian Architecture; private residence; Cadenza leather

Gayle Less & Company; private residence; Solo (nubuck)

Glave & Holmes Architecture; residence; Classical leather

Greenbaum Interiors; residence; Rhapsody leather

Gregga Jordan Smieszny; residence; Classical leather

Hallock Design Group; residence; Jazz leather

Hendrickson; residence; Classical leather

Hughes Design Associates; private residence; Reverie leather

Innovative Commercial Environments; private residence; B Natural leather

Jeffers Design Group; private residence; Reverie leather

John Barman Inc; private residence; Rhapsody leather

Kellie Burke Designs; private residence; custom leather

Michelle Miller Design; private residence; Iridium and B Natural leathers

Leighton Designs; private residence; custom leather

Margerite Rodgers; private residence; Tempo and Improv leathers

Mark Showell Interiors; private residence; Improv leather

McAlpine Booth & Ferrier Interiors; private residence; Rhapsody, B Natural, and  Classical leathers

Project Dynamics: private residence; custom leather

Robert AM Stern; private residence; Cadenza leather

Saint Dizier Design; private residence; Solo and Tempo leathers

SFA Design; private residence; Classical leather

Susan Fredman Design; private residence; Rhapsody and custom leather

Vogue Interiors; private residence; Jazz leather

W Design; private residence; Reverie leather

Wiseman Group; private residence; Jazz leather

Corporate Projects

Astorino; corporate office; Improv and Repertoire leathers

Continental Office Environments; executive office; Rhapsody leather

Corporate Concepts; corporate offices; Rhapsody leather

Dollries Group: corporate office; Improv and Cadenza leathers

DRS Architects; corporate office; Rhapsody leather

Gensler: executive dining rooms; custom leather

Interior Investments; corporate lobby; Tempo leather

L&M Office Furniture; corporate office; Reverie leather

MKDA; corporate reception area; custom leather

Oklahoma State University: university offices; Reverie leather

Shore Total Office; executive office; custom leather

Hospitality Projects

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“Just letting you know the custom leather is gorgeous! You guys really knocked it out of the park.”

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“You have a very happy customer! The leather arrived this morning, and the color is absolutely perfect. Just lovely, and exactly what I wanted. Your folks did exactly what they were asked to do to lighten the tones, so now the walnut wood contrasts just enough to not get lost. I confess to holding my breath when opening the package, fearing that the slightly reddish tones would have gone pink when lightened, but it is absolutely perfect. A clay color that will be gorgeous with Saltillo tile floors without being so saturated as to go pink. Neutral enough, rust-colored enough, and a perfect contrast with the dark walnut wood frame on the bench. It will be breath-taking. Can’t wait to get the furniture upholstered. I wanted to send a note to let you know how very much I appreciate you being willing to work with a small customer — a small project to you, but a very big deal to me and my family heirloom.

I am impressed, and it is hard to impress an artist. :o)”

S Gamble

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“I got my Groove leather today. It’s stunning and pretty much exact.”

J Lockerman

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“We love the distressed leather you did…”

G Barbara

Analine-dyed for color, lizard-embossed lamb skin with a hand-crafted finish.

Custom colored and finished to your specification in 2-4 weeks.

Over the centuries, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake things seem real. As early as the fourteenth century, fabric was treated with special oils to make it resemble leather. In the 1870s came Leatherette, a new bookbinding material. The twentieth century gave us Fabrikoid, Naugahyde, Corfam, and Ultrasuede. Each claims to transcend leather’s limitations, to do better than nature itself—or at least to convince consumers that it does.

Perhaps more than any other natural material, leather stands for the authentic and the genuine. Its animal roots etched in its pores and in the swirls of its grain, leather serves as cultural shorthand for the virtues of the real over the synthetic, the original over the copy, the luxurious over the shoddy and second-rate. From formica, vinyl siding, and particle board to cubic zirconium, knockoff designer bags, and genetically altered foods, inspired fakes of every description fly the polyester pennant of a brave new man-made world. Each represents a journey of scientific, technical, and entrepreneurial innovation. Faux Real explores this borderland of the almost-real, the ersatz, and the fake, illuminating a centuries-old culture war between the authentic and the imitative.

Damask embossed leather with gold hand-wipe finish.

Custom colored and finished to your specification in 2-4 weeks.

or the first time in eight years, color specialist and source Pantone LLC has amped up its Pantone Fashion + Home color system by adding 175 new colors, bringing the total to 2,100 shades.”

Pantone’s latest additions reflect today’s global color influences across fashion, home furnishings and interior design and enrich the current palette and focus on areas of significant market importance and color trend movement. Vouching for the expanded spectrum is artist and designer Jonathan Adler. “One would think that it would be impossible for Pantone to best themselves, but indeed they have,” Adler said. “I didn’t imagine that there were 175 more colors in the world, but Pantone managed to find them, number them and add them to their already legendary assortments.”

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