MASTERCHAIR ARMCHAIR

Masterchair is the traditional wingback in full: a 102 cm back, deep button tufting, nailhead trim and cabriole legs, in full-grain leather. 88 cm wide, 90 cm deep. It is the most formal chair we make. Shown in black and dark brown.

Cabriole legs

A cabriole leg curves out at the knee and back in at the ankle — carved rather than turned, because the shape cannot be made on a lathe. It is the detail that dates this chair to a tradition rather than a decade, and it is the reason the chair looks right in a panelled room and odd in a minimal one. We would say so before an order rather than after.

Tufting and nailheads together

Both, on one piece: buttons pulled and tied by hand over high-density foam that holds the diamonds square, and nailheads set individually along the leading edges. Two hand processes on the same chair means two places where uneven spacing shows, which is why this model takes longer in production than anything else in the armchair range.

Full-grain leather

The grain is left as it came, so the hide is already varied and will deepen unevenly at the seat and arm fronts. On a tufted surface that produces exactly the shaded, aged look the form is drawn for — the intended end state, not wear.

Leather

Handcrafted kiln-dried beech frame. Made to order in any of seventy-six shades across twelve leather families, or in fabric. Leather type, stitching and cushion firmness specified at the time of order. Leather is always genuine.

Where it belongs

A panelled study, a library, a boutique hotel lounge, a formal sitting room. It pairs with Ramses and with our buttoned sofas, and it wants wall height behind it.