The modernist designers chose 1 inch thick cold drawn steel tube because it was a widely available and cheap material. Still today gas and water pipings are made of it. If there is nothing special about the material, using it for the making of high-class furniture requires most precise hand labour. Metal for steelform furniture is shaped and welded by highly skilled workers, then hand finished to a mirror-like superficies before receiving a 35 micron chrome plating.
Woods steelform uses ash and oak woods from Slovenia.
These materials have been stored and naturally dried for years prior to being used, thus minimizing the risk of occurring cracks or distortions to an absolute minimum. The reproduction of the sophisticated Mackintosh furniture is a challenge for our joiners and the result of their efforts is a true artisanal work. Regarding upholstery materials a lot has changed since the late twenties and a dense, fire retarding, polyurethane foam is widely used for all kinds of upholsteries on the furniture we sell. On others like the Corbusier LC 2 range, we use composite foams. Leathers We are using but aniline dyed bovine leathers.