Trace & Mordant
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Upholstery

Change the cloth and it becomes a different thing.

A low sofa upholstered panel by panel in a patchwork of many Indian textiles.

A sofa is built from a set of flat pieces — deck, back, arms, cushions, skirt — and every one of them is cloth. This one is made of twenty. Not something you'd order. It shows the parts.

Eight cloths, one frame

The same frame, eight times over. Only the cloth changes.

You aren't choosing a fabric. You're choosing what kind of thing sits in the room.

The same sofa frame in oatmeal bouclé.
The same sofa frame in deep indigo cloth.
The same sofa frame in olive linen slub.
The same sofa frame in an ecru and madder stripe.
The same sofa frame in an ochre check.
The same sofa frame in a faded floral.
The same sofa frame in charcoal wool.
The same sofa frame in chartreuse.
What can be recovered

A chair you inherited. A dining set you don't like. The sofa that's still comfortable.

A piece doesn't have to be replaced to change. It can be asked to become something else.

A wing chair recovered in a madder-ground floral.

Start with the piece.

The one you have, or the one you're about to buy. Tell us about it, or send a photograph.