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High Quality PU leather on Barcelona Chair

Rumors about PU leather

Many customers have been misled by some middle sellers who try to defame us by posting bad reviews on certain notorious review website which uses bad reviews to push sellers to buy their membership. This evil ally plays a good role in misleading innocent people to buy their overpriced products.
In their sayings, PU leather is a fake leather, with stinks, easy to peel off and Barcelona Chairs made of PU leather offered from us are totally inferior products.
Below are some captured pictures of their slanders. Click them to see larger and clearer.
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What is PU leather


PU leather is a synthetic Leather, made of polyurethane with nonwoven fabrics as backing cloth. It is not Real Leather but made to feel, look and display properties similar to Real Leather. It is widely used to make shoes, bags, furniture, balls, luggage and etc.

PU leather can be made with wide-ranged colors, patterns and designs, for this point Real Leather can never match.

There are also various grades for PU leather based on different processing techniques. Some PU leather with special and complicated processing is even more expensive than genuine leather.

Click here to see the Full Color Swatch of PU leather.




PU leather is NOT PVC leather


PVC is named polyvinyl chloride, it is also called vinyl. From the outside look, it is very similar. But compared with PU leather, it is with thinner leather layers and backing cloth, thus its lamination process via gluing and heating is more simple, which causes the cost much lower too. Many sellers use PVC leather to cut the production cost, but after some time, the surface will peel off.

We have received customers' requests many times trying to buy from us new cushions to replace their existing cushions which they bought elsewhere and after some time they were peeling off.
PVC Leather
PVC Leather
PVC Leather




PU leather vs Bonded Leather


You may need to know what is Bonded Leather. Click to get a full details about Bonded Leather as well as the comparison between PU leather and Bonded Leather.




We use High Quality PU leather


The PU leather we use in Barcelona Chair and related furniture is a High Quality PU leather backing inside and outside, and with thick and strong backing cloth at the bottom. It never peels off easily as PVC leather which many sellers use, and because of its good durability, we find in some situations, it lasts even longer than Real Leather--Top Grain Real leather.

Below is a good example. We made those purple cushions in 2010 and kept one of them in the showroom as purple color was very special. The front was made of Top Grain Leather while the 4 sides, back, piping and buttons were made of high quality PU leather
Leather

After so many years, the real leather part has ripped off but the PU leather part is still good.
Leather
Leather
Leather


The high quality PU leather we use can match Italian leather very well


In our production of furniture, we always use Real Leather on the touching parts which will touch human skin directly, while on the non-touching parts, we use the matching PU leather to help customers to reduce the cost. We will also use Real Leather on all the parts no matter touching or non-touching upon customers' requests.

The 2 cushions below are Two different grades of Barcelona Chair cushions. The left one is the standard grade and we use PU leather on the sides of the cushion. The right one is the Higher grade and we use Italian Leather on the sides of the cushion.
If just looking at them, you can barely tell any difference between them.
PU leather match Italian Leather

But if you press them, the Real Leather will show you the natural wrinkles with pores (in the yellow circle)
PU leather match Italian Leather

While the PU leather, as an Artificial Leather, will not show you this.
PU leather match Italian Leather

And after your press, there is a dent trail left on the Real Leather (don't worry it will recover slowly), but nothing will be left on the PU leather.
PU leather match Italian Leather

So if not pressing or touching, you can not tell their differences at all. They are nearly the same from the outside look. The high quality PU leather we use can match Italian leather very well.


True feedbacks from customers about PU leather


Nothing more speaks louder than customers' feedbacks about PU leather. Below are parts of their feedbacks.
Please be noted, we never play the good-review-tricks, and we never ask customers to post good reviews for us. Under 99% situations, they only give us feedbacks in a simple word by email or text. That is why we always need to capture the pictures of emails if we want to show their feedbacks. And to protect privacy we have to cover the necessary information.
Click the pictures to see bigger and clearer.
True Feedback about PU leather we use
True Feedback about PU leather we use
True Feedback about PU leather we use

You may ask, why those feedbacks were made such a long time ago? Yes, the truth is, for a very long time, we have no feedbacks any more particularly for PU leather. It seems most people have no doubts on us any more. Maybe the mouth-to-mouth reputation saves us from those online rumors and slanders? We don't know.
But if you still have doubts, you can check this blog: https://jeanofalltrades.com/2011/07/07/my-barcelona-chair/
Jean bought this chair from us made of full PU leather. So after more than 10 years, how it is now? Please say hi to her for us too.