The Art of Design Issue 30 2018 | Page 24

24 ELEMENTAL GROWTH Hand woven leather wall surface O’Hare and D’Jafer are an applied arts methodology. When we apply this to Elemental Disc, is marine leather, hand design studio, involved in the creation upholstery grade leather, it changes its gilded with schlag gold leaf to form a and manufacture of luxurious leather personality, eliminating distortion and metallic ground upon which our design is furnishings. Our work is specified by skew; allowing detailed pattern matching created. architects, interior designers, and art of different weaves, on a large scale within consultants, featured within 5 star hotels, commercial and residential projects. Surface patination has been created through a chemical reaction of an luxury ships and private residences An added benefit gained from the use of aqueous solution of copper sulphate, our hide is the opportunity for designers when in contact with the surface The provenance of the raw material is to increase their selection of colour metallization. vital for the work created within our UK options, currently up to 102 shades. around the world. Ferrous oxide is brushed upon the surface design studio, and to the luxury goods market that we supply. To this end, we have worked with our tannery in Italy to develop our beautiful marine quality upholstery leather, as the base material for our specialist interior wall finishes. Our specialist knowledge, has allowed us to invent a production and handling Illustrated above, hand woven leather in of encircled scrambled motifs developing a repeating pattern, of 10 mm and 20 mm as primitive darks upon the surface. leather straps. The leather is embroidered with a scrambled pattern of autumn + 44 12 12 94 44 55 hedgerow vegetation, using colours that [email protected] reflect the changing season. www.ohare-djafer.com