Jasmine, at ease

Some sofas ask to be looked at. Jasmine asks you to stay. In a whitewashed studio under exposed beams and a skylight, two of them face each other across a glass table like old friends who no longer need to fill the silence. Camel leather, long low lines, cushions that look as though someone has only just stood up. Nothing here is styled to within an inch of its life. That is rather the point.

It is a picture of what leather sofas can be when they stop performing. No tufting, no rolled arms, no brass. Just proportion, a beautiful hide and a seat you can lose an afternoon in. Luxury leather sofas, it turns out, are mostly a matter of restraint.

The silhouette

Jasmine sits low and runs long. The back rises only 68 centimetres from the floor, the arms are squared-off blocks, and the seat stretches a generous 71 centimetres deep. In a room with high ceilings it reads almost like architecture: a horizon line in leather, letting the space above it breathe.

Look closer and the softness arrives. Every edge is gently rounded, and the back cushions lean in at an easy, unstudied angle. It is the sofa equivalent of a perfectly cut coat: precise from across the room, forgiving up close.

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The hide

The leather is Felix, a full aniline hide finished with a fine embossed nubuck surface. Full aniline means nothing is painted over the grain: the colour is dyed right through, so what you see is the skin itself, every natural mark and variation intact. The nubuck finish gives it a soft, almost suede-like hand, and a toughness that surprises people. Scuffs fade, paws are forgiven, and the surface grows richer with every year of use.

It is why we think of Felix as the most liveable of our Italian leather sofas. A luxury Italian leather sofa you are allowed to actually use. In Pisco, a warm camel tan, it is our favourite camel leather sofa, the shade of a good saddle, a tan that sits as happily with white walls as it does with a moss-green carpet.

The seat

Beneath the leather, Jasmine is built on our Soft Support Comfort. Each seat cushion is high-performance foam wrapped in a fibre lining, set over a bed of pocket coils, each spring sewn into its own pocket so it answers to exactly where you sit. There are no feathers in the seat to plump.

The effect is a seat that is soft on the first touch and steady underneath: upright enough for a long dinner conversation, deep enough to fold your legs under you when the conversation turns to the second bottle. The cushions keep their shape, so Jasmine looks at the end of the evening much as it did at the start.

The pair

Two sofas facing one another is the oldest arrangement in the book, and still the most generous. It turns a living room into a salon. Nobody sits with their back to the fire, nobody is left on the end.

Jasmine makes the arrangement easy because it is a modular sofa at heart: armchairs, armless seats, a corner and a chaise that join to build exactly the length and shape your room needs. Build it straight as here, turn it into a corner sofa, or let a chaise run out towards the window. And if you move, it moves with you, piece by piece.

After dark

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By night the studio changes character entirely. The skylights go black, the neon comes on, someone takes over the records. And the sofas do what good sofas do: they absorb the party. Leather is made for evenings like this. It warms under you, it wipes clean after a spilled drink, and in low red light it glows like polished wood.

Between the two Jasmines sit a pair of Edgar accent chairs, compact and generously cushioned, with the rounded profile of a mid-century club chair. They are the leather armchairs we reach for when a room needs a little more conversation and a little less sofa: a modern leather chair that holds its own beside a statement piece without competing with it. Luxury leather armchairs do not need to be large. Edgar proves that designer leather chairs can be compact, sculptural and made for sitting rather than looking.

Made for you

Jasmine is made to order in our own factory, in the size and configuration you choose, in any of our four Italian leathers or our fabrics. Choose smooth, protected top grain for an easy life, or a full aniline like Felix for a hide that gets better with age. Every frame is solid wood with a lifetime guarantee, every delivery is free and white glove, and you have thirty days to live with it before you decide. It is how premium leather sofas should be bought: slowly, and at home.

Jasmine, in brief

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