How to create luxurious and tactile contemporary interiors with leather | News | Architonic

First off, let’s address the thick-skinned elephant in the room. Leather, real animal-hide leather, is inherently harmful to the environment whichever way you skin it. Whether it’s the methane gases of the reared animals themselves or the non-biodegradable chemicals used in the tanning process. There are, however, sustainable arguments in favour of the material. Once produced, leather’s natural durability means it remains eternally circular, and using the past hundred years as an indicator, it will always be in demand.