The sofa is fine. One cushion is not.
Nobody wears a sofa out evenly. One cushion, one arm, one panel goes first, and the thing it has to match sits an inch away.
Six places, on an otherwise perfect piece.
Luxury furniture repair NYC is usually one of these, not a whole sofa. Each is fixed where it stands and colored to the panel beside it.
How far a local repair can disappear.
The same damage is a different job on each of these, whether the piece came from a gallery brand like Poltrona Frau or an estate sale. We say which finish you have, and how close the repair will get, before anything starts.
Aniline
Color sits in the hide, with nothing over it. The most beautiful and the least forgiving; a spot repair is visible in raking light, so we usually refinish the whole panel.
Panel, not patch
Semi-aniline
A light finish over the color. Local repairs hide well when the sheen is matched as carefully as the color.
Local repair, blended out
Pigmented
An even coat over the grain. The most repairable of the three: damage is rebuilt, grained and recolored until the panel reads as one surface.
Rebuilt and recoloredFour moves on a sofa somebody sits on tonight.
A tan sofa in a high-floor apartment: one cushion worn dark, the rest of the piece untouched.
Take the reference from the same sofa
Not from a swatch book. The target is the panel next to the repair, read in the apartment's own light.
Clean first, decide color second
Much of what looks like fading is soil. Cleaning shows the real color, and sometimes ends the job there. See leather cleaning.
Put the color into the surface, not on it
Thin coats, worked into the grain and sealed, so the cushion still feels like leather. See color restoration.
Deal with the foam that let it happen
A cushion that sank is why the leather creased there. New foam under the same cover keeps the repair from coming back. See cushion replacement.
Everything above happens in the apartment. Only a cover that needs sewing leaves, through pickup and delivery.
The pieces that get asked about most.
Your building's rules, before your furniture.
Most luxury buildings decide who comes in before the resident does. Every luxury furniture repair NYC visit works to the same list.
- Certificate of insurance sent to management ahead of the visit
- Service entrance and elevator booked with the front desk
- Floors and rugs covered before anything opens
- Evening and weekend appointments when the building prefers them
- Nothing left in a common area between visits
Same piece, same room, same light.
More in the before and after gallery.
The one cushion. Cleaned, recolored to the panel beside it, new foam underneath. The sofa was never taken out of the apartment.
More for apartments and residences.
Luxury furniture repair NYC also covers model units and rentals, on the real estate hub.
The work itself
Where we work
What residents ask first.
What does luxury furniture repair NYC cover in an apartment?
A single worn cushion, arm, headrest or panel on sofas, dining chairs, headboards and ottomans, repaired and color matched to the piece it belongs to.
How long is the piece out of use?
Most repairs are done in the apartment in one visit, and the piece is usable again once the finish has cured, usually the same evening.
The leather is dull all over rather than damaged in one place. Is that a repair?
That is cleaning and refinishing rather than repair. It is the whole surface, done panel by panel, so the sheen stays even.
Will the repair match aniline leather?
Aniline is the hardest to hide because the color sits in the hide. We say before starting how close a local repair can get, and when refinishing the whole panel is the better answer.
Do you carry insurance for the building?
Yes. The certificate of insurance goes to management before the visit, naming the building as your house rules require.
Photograph the worn part, then the whole piece.
Daylight, no flash. Those two shots are enough to say what a luxury furniture repair NYC visit would involve, and what it would cost. Or contact us to arrange a look in person.
