Carved Oak Frame Leather Sofa Set, Tan Pebbled

This sofa set is very comfortable, the kind where people sit down for 5 minutes and stay for the whole evening. The leather is full leather in a warm tan with a pebbled grain, the seats and backs are thick and padded and every bit of wood around them is oak with the carving done by hand.

How Full Leather Changes Over The Years

• The first few months: the leather smells of leather and feels firm and the seat cushions take a little while to shape themselves to the people who use them most.
• After about a year: it softens where people sit and lean and the tan goes slightly darker on the arms and the front of the seats.
• After many years: those darker patches turn into a shine that only real leather gets with use and the set looks better than the day it arrived.

Leatherette starts peeling in a few Indian summers and full leather does not peel at all, which is the real reason a set like this costs more. A dry cloth for dust and a leather conditioner twice a year is all it asks, plus a place away from strong direct sun.

The Hand Carved Oak

Each arm finishes in a thick oak post, turned into a ribbed melon shape at the top and cut with a diamond on the square block at the bottom. On the side of the arm there is a carved flower roundel and a rope pattern runs along the base rail under the seats from one end to the other. The arms have a flat oak top too, so a cup of tea or the remote can sit on the arm without falling off.

Oak is a hard wood and that matters on a sofa, because the frame is the part that takes the weight of everyone sitting down every day for years.