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We spend more time inside our homes than every before—and we want our indoor environments to not only be calming and comforting, but to feel luxurious and reflect our personal style.
In the past, a plush armchair upholstered with animal leather as the ideal combination of luxury, style and comfort. Now, you're more likely to see those stained and crackled pieces of furniture in a thrift store.
Why? Because innovation in the vegan leather industry has leaped forward in the past decade, revolutionizing what performance and luxury can look and feel like in beautiful indoor furniture. Driven by brands like Ultrafabrics, bold new technology is answering real-life demands for sustainable, stain-proof, breathable materials with vibrant color, exquisite craftsmanship and sumptuous haptics.
It's time to ditch the skin, and discover what makes animal-free the heir to the indoor comfort throne.
Whether it's your favorite fireside chair or a stunning headboard, interacting with a great piece of furniture should be a sensory experience. Where animal leather can crack and dry out, high-performance vegan leather is soft and supple to the touch, with a natural grain that offers endless colors and textures to complement any interior design vision.
And if you've ever sat on a hot and sticky leather chair in the summer, you can see why innovative inherent thermal comfort would be a win. Brands like Ultrafabrics engineer a proprietary ventilation system into products like Ultraleather, promoting airflow for ultimate seating comfort. It doesn't hurt that the collection is skin friendly, non-allergic and odorless.
If you're making an investment into high-quality furniture, you want it to last. Animal leather can be sensitive to environmental factors like moisture, sunlight, and temperature fluctuations—but vegan leather is designed to stand up to all life's wear and tear.
Materials like Ultraleather boast superior durability thanks to its premium polycarbonate construction and 16-week hydrolysis resistance. When brought to life as a stunning sectional sofa, it can handle even busy pet- and kid-friendly homes with a built-in resistance to scratches, scuffs, spills and more.
Animal leather loves to soak up stains: red wine, juice, greasy hair products and more. Innovative manufacturers of vegan leather set out to solve that.
Inherent stain protection for easy care is the new industry standard. Ultraleather Pro from Ultrafabrics uses a renowned ink and stain resistant solution to protect against stubborn stains such as ink, denim dye, red wine, and more. Enhanced resistance to tough stains including ballpoint pen, denim dye, ketchup, and more is also available in some Ultrafabrics collections.
Low Maintenance, Lasting Beauty
Who loves the smell of costly leather cleaning and conditioning products? Not very many homeowners, it seems. When our lives are already busy, shopper demand for vegan leather is partially due to how low-maintenance it is—Whereas animal leather furniture requires regular conditioning to prevent it from drying out and cracking.
With a selection of sumptuous and functional materials, vegan leather collections from leading brands like Ultrafabrics are thoughtfully created to complement your design vision. From barstools and dining chairs to headboards or loveseats, the flexibility of applications is staggering—you could even pull that colorful indoor chair outside onto the patio to soak up the sun with built-in UV resistance.
Available in exclusive shades across a wide-ranging color palette, products like Ultraleather are ideal for any interior application. That means the sky is the limit for those looking to leave the boring traditional leather armchair behind, and explore bold new possibilities in interior design and craftsmanship.
Sustainability isn't just a buzzword: It's a very real priority for many Americans. The animal leather industry is overwhelmingly toxic for the environment, using harsh chemicals and relying on high-pollution cattle farming practices.
Earth-friendly with a low carbon footprint in the manufacturing process, vegan leather is a breath of fresh air. Responsible manufacturers meet and exceed high standards for consumer peace of mind, including Reach Compliance; Indoor Advantage Gold Certification; Free of BPA, PFOA, PVC, plasticizers, flame retardants, and formaldehyde, and much more.
Although Post-pandemic, brands that make our lives healthier and our environments safer have gained traction—and preference—in the marketplace. Vegan leather is no different. For the health-minded, one of the top vegan leather manufacturers, Ultrafabrics, even offer select styles that inhibit the growth of bacteria and other surface pathogens due to its EPA-registered antimicrobial technology. It's true: You no longer need to compromise on comfort, beauty or performance when seeking antimicrobial solutions.
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