beneath the covers...
Made in Britain
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We make most of our sofas in England.
We're pretty proud of this.
Unlike most things nowadays, that seem to be
made in the Far East or Eastern Europe, the UK is still a
powerhouse in making really beautiful, great quality sofas, using
traditional skills honed over hundreds of years.
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This means we can do various things for
you.
We get our sofas to you quickly - no hanging
around waiting for a container from China,or a truck from Europe.
In fact we deliver in about half the time of most of our
competitors
- 30 days approx.
Fancy a beautiful velvet devoré, a 50's linen
print, or a Scottish wool plaid, and in the time it takes to plump
your seat cushions we will have it in production in our
factory.
Made to measure
Speak to us, and that special size 150cm wide
sofa to fit the sitting room bay window will also not be beyond our
capabilities.
Five year construction guarantee.
All our sofas carry a five year construction
guarantee. It covers the feet and frame, springs, webbing, and
sofabed mechanisms. Everything you can't see, except the seat
cushion fillings. But don't worry about them. They'll retain their
shape and comfort for years. Why? Read on.
Underneath it all: the sturdy frame.
We've tried a variety of ways to improve
frames. But actually the traditional European hardwood is best,
pinned and glued (to a five-year guarantee). Retro shapes are
really tricky to make. Stane Street had its frame prototyped by a
surf board manufacturer. What a dude.
The cushion.
Our in-house experts, (my wife, Julia and
David's wife, Jenny) have found that when someone's unhappy with a
sofa, the seat cushions are mostly to blame.
There isn't much new technology in our sofas;
we like to make them the traditional way. Our cushions however are
a veritable hotbed of innovation, and our Quallofil Supreme
interiors are, according to FIRA, (the Furniture Industry Research
Association) the best on the market, for returning to their
original shape, after plumping. This is because we use new
Monopolymer fibre; Pause for large yawn. To you and I this means
the fibres act like a coiled spring. Need I say any more?
Washable loose covers.
Ideal for grubby fingers and muddy dogs,
obviously been around for ever. But in fact, not before 1989. That
year I found them at Shabby Chic, in SoHo, New York. Brilliant, I
thought, and brought the idea home.
Then I found how tricky they were to make. But
we ironed out the manufacuring wrinkles, and we've been making
really good washable loose covers ever since.
Top tips! Never wash your covers above 30°C or
tumble-dry them. They'll shrink. Never ever use detergents with
Optical Brighteners or Whiteners in them, because the
chemicals in these detergents take the colour out of your covers.
If you are unsure, contact the detergent manufacturer before
washing. Always fit loose covers when still damp, and tuck them in
with a wooden spoon.
A dream in leather.
At one time leather sofas all looked Victorian
and sat like a brick. And only lads bought them. Basically the
tanning process made them that way. I wanted to come up with
something better, and from 1988, I tried with a Dutch tannery.
Progress was slow.
But when my wife Julia (no fan of leather
sofas) told me how lovely and soft the sofa in our showroom was, I
knew we'd cracked it. Soft leather! Now, even though most sofas are
bought by women, over half the sofas sold in the UK are
leather.