Worn leather upholstery

One of our favourite coffee chains is called Coffee #1. It started life in Cardiff, Wales, and has spread to south Wales and parts of south west England. The chain makes commendable efforts to celebrate the town in which each shop is based, decorating interiors with paintings, quotations and photographs related to the locality. Another characteristic is the heavy use of second-hand furniture - you don't often see more than one or two of each design of chair in a shop. Recently we were having a coffee whilst sitting on a red leather, buttoned Chesterfield sofa. The worn and cracked leather appealed to me and I took this photograph of it with my phone.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: iPhone

Leather belts and denim

You have to take care when buying a belt today. Plastic masquerading as leather, plastic coating leather and various other applications of plastic on leather can easily deceive the shopper looking for a simple, straightforward leather belt, the sort that will give good service for many years. The belt in the photograph above is about fifteen years old and I hope it will give me a further fifteen years. I usually wear it with jeans because, to my eye, the warm-coloured, worn leather and strong buckle go well with faded denim blue.


photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10