USA Premium Leather
USA Premium Leather Furniture prides itself on using only the best imported top grain leathers available, all from free-range cattle.
Leather is a natural material whose beauty is enhanced by unique varying grain patterns and the subtleties of color and texture created by dyes and finishes. With time and use, leather products will mature and darken, giving them a rich patina.
From contact with fences, trees and the elements. Aniline leather is a natural product and no effort is made to hide the varied texture.
Transparent colors are similar to wood stain, allowing for variations of shades within the same color.
Different sections of each hide have a unique appearance. A full-size sofa utilizes 3-4 whole hides.
Only the outer portion of the hide is used for Top Grain leather. The leather may be naturally smooth or wrinkled and will show all the natural markings, brands and scars.
The tanned hides are soaked in translucent dyes which permeate the leather to accentuate its natural and unique beauty. These leathers can be cleaned and conditioned to ensure they keep their luxurious feel.
Full aniline leather is made from Full Top Grain selection, meaning only the top 10 percent of hides are used for this leather. Transparent coloring with micro pigments provides beautiful depth of color, allowing the natural surface characteristics to be visible.
Full Aniline leathers have natural grain, not man made. As a result, this leather will display healed scars and scratches, variations in color and shading, natural wrinkles and grain pattern.
Some leathers require correction of the natural grain as a result of the amount of healed scars or other surface defects. Corrected grain leathers receive a light buffing to remove such defects and a new grain is manually embossed into the leather surface.
The leather surface then receives additional dyes, pigmentation for color consistency, and/or a protective top-coat finish. This correction of leather grain changes the feel of the leather but generally improves the durability and decreases the amount of preventative maintenance required.
Our top grain aniline-dyed Brompton leathers are hand-tanned in Argentina. Layers of hand-applied wax give the leather depth of color, while oils make it supple to the touch. Inherent variations in color make each piece unique, and over time the leather will develop a rich, burnished patina.
Our Mendoza leather is a natural shrunken grain, with ever so slight surface sanding to clean up the surface & open pores. It is impregnated with oil over the dyed thru crust and later sealed with a bonding agent with aniline for color consistency.
Every single tick bite, healed scar, and flaw of the skin will show and will be enhanced due to the oil that darkens and highlights them.
