Taking care of the leather covering

We recommend you read the instructions that follow carefully if you have purchased a leather sofa, paying particular attention to the description of the leather family that you have selected and the advice for the care, maintenance and relative warnings for this particular covering.

Natural leather is a noble and resistant material, which becomes more valuable with time. Leather offers an ideal level of comfort both during the hot months and the cold months thanks to its properties of transpiration and flexibility; moreover, leather transmits a pleasant feeling of a warm embrace by adhering perfectly to the shape of the body.

The KUKA leather collections, a world leather in the sector, are selected in the countries of origin and are processed directly in the Group’s tanning plants. Each hide has its own story that can be read by the natural signs impressed on the surface such as scars, lines, insect bites, stretch markes, veining, differences in grain and color.

This is the reason our craftsmen check the hides one by one and process them in a different way to enhance their natural characteristics, obtaining superior hides suited to different domestic uses.

In certain cases, on the some parts of the sofa, we can also use the crust leather over all the surface of the sofa that can be covered, or the underlying part of the hide, which is also a natural products.

Use of crust leather, only available for some articles, makes the cost of the sofa more competitive, without modifying the optimum quality of the product.

There are a number of natural characteristics that you will fid on your KUKA leather cover are listed as below:

• - Low grain
• - Closed scar
• - Grain difference
• - Wrinkle
• - Insect bites
• - Veining
• - Differences in shade