Bellini Modern Living is at Fall Market in High Point (IHFC H-520) with three new stationary leather sofas, two of which are specifically sized for condos and apartments where space is at a premium.
According to Hossein Azimi, CEO of Bellini Modern Living, “Our retail partners have been requesting smaller-scale leather furniture designs for their customers in urban settings. In many North American cities, Toronto being a perfect example, the average apartment is no more than 500 square feet. In these settings, the majority of leather furniture currently available in the marketplace can simply overwhelm a space.”
Azimi said that the new apartment-sized silhouettes—all crafted using the premium, full-grain Italian leather hides that have long set Bellini’s made-in-Italy offerings apart—while smaller, offer the same premium comfort and couture tailoring dealers have come to expect from the brand. “We are using 100-percent full-grain leather tanned in Italy all the way around the sofas. Each design offers a generous sitting area, albeit with slimmed-down arms, and frames that are off-the-floor for lighter, airier presentations,” he said.
The collections includes Lido, in a tiger-eye brown leather, which sports tailored arms, bolster pillows and a slim frame atop steel legs (suggested retail $3,199) while Anzio is a sleek, slate-blue leather two-seat sofa (suggested retail $2,999) with slender, flanged arms.
Epitomizing Bellini Modern Leather style, the full-size navy blue Palliano leather sofa (suggested retail $3,699) offers a five-position ratchet headrest, wide arms, polished stainless-steel legs and distinctive cross-over stitching, a detail which continues around the back of the sofa to ensure the design can be floated anywhere in a room. “Given how consumers decorate today, we took great pains to ensure each of our new leather sofas look as good from behind as they do from the front,” Azimi noted.