Home Hack: How to care for vintage leather furniture

Vintage basane leather chairs and 19th-century pieces may be dyed, patinated and waxed but they won’t be otherwise sealed 

Timeless, elegant, the simple art deco-informed lines of basane leather furniture just grow more beautiful over time. Picture: iStock

French leather club chairs, those squashy, mottled, low-slung aristocrats, look fantastic in a period layered study or as a confident counterpoint to a minimalist, modern room-scape. 

They are traditionally made not in hide, but sheepskins.