our experienced team offer innovative, Creative Upholstery services
SDR Upholstery is an upholstery studio based in the heart of Hackney, East London.
If you have an upholstery project in mind, we’re always happy to talk about your ideas, whether you’re looking to revive a family heirloom or need large scale seating solutions for a commercial project. We work regularly with interior designers, architects, hotels, restaurants and a variety of brands and businesses, but also have many private clients.
Our skilled team offer a full range of modern and traditional upholstery services, we also specialise in mid-century furniture upholstery and restoration.
Our priority is creating the very best possible finish on each project that we do, and our team is always on hand to support with every aspect of the process, from fabric choice to delivery.
We can also help with a variety of additional services including:
Furniture design and consultation
The repair of all types of furniture frames
Wood restoration, reviving and polishing
We tackle projects of all sizes, from dining chairs, armchairs and sofas, to larger installations like banquette seating and upholstered panels. If you have a project in mind get in touch.
What our clients say
"Amazing transformation of my ‘ugly duckling’ mid-century sofa and chairs. I couldn’t have been more pleased."
— David, Five Acre Barn
"beautiful, comfortable, exquisitely handled - thanks for the advice and care."
— Ewan A, Arts and Crafts dining Chairs
FABRIC
We create work that lasts and we know choosing the right fabric to fit a project, be it for your home or for a commercial project, can seem daunting, so we’re always happy to talk fabric.
At SDR Upholstery we maintain close links to a whole range of fabric companies, from large, multi-nationals to small, independent designers, so we can always be aware of the latest ranges and developments. Here are just a small selection of companies we work with: Bute, Eleanor Pritchard, Kvadrat, A Rum Fellow, Camira, Chase Erwin, Dedar, Whistler Leather, Liberty Fabrics, Lewis & Wood, Christopher Farr, Flock.
Even if you have a fabric in mind, we’d always encourage you to have a conversation with us before making a choice as we can advise on suitability to your specific project and help you find the perfect thing. We also offer competitive rates when you buy through us.
SUSTAINABle Upholstery
While we believe that reupholstery is inherently more sustainable than buying brand new, mass produced furniture, some of the materials upholsterers have come to rely on in recent years have a questionable environmental impact. We’re constantly looking for more sustainable solutions for our upholstery work and will consult with you to find a low impact approach to your upholstery project and find ourselves increasingly utilising natural and recycled materials as alternatives to PU foam and synthetic fibres.
CASE STUDY
We recently worked with Mentsen, on a project to create an upholstery solution for their artfully crafted furniture for 2 Bessborough Street in Pimlico. Their main ask of us was to use natural upholstery materials and avoid use of PU foams to reduce amount of chemicals that go into the upholstered pieces of furniture, without compromising on the quality and finish. We worked together to create solutions that would achieve the right level of comfort and durability for high use furniture, without utilising foam.
You can read more about the project HERE. The sofa base was constructed by Mentsen from solid European oak, with webbing frame made in beech. We used jute webbing, cushions were filled with a special wool/cattle hair mix produced specially for the project and the covers made with natural fibre fabric from Tibor.
The seat and backrest on the armchairs were upholstered with natural latex foam for smart slim finish, again in a natural fibre textile from Tibor. There are more images in our workshop gallery.
Recent work
