Button-Tufted Full-Grain Leather Tub Chair on Brass Castors — Safari Glamping Edition

About this object

A low tub chair in full-grain pull-up leather, button-tufted across its curved back and seat, standing on turned hardwood legs finished with brass cup castors. The form descends from the Victorian slipper chair of the 1880s — armless, compact, deep enough to settle into — rebuilt to hospitality specification for tented suites and forest lodges. First commissioned for a glamping resort in Jim Corbett, Uttarakhand, the design answers a specific brief: furniture that lives a metre from open canvas through monsoon season and emerges looking deliberate, not weathered. The leather carries the live, marbled tonality of a wax-and-oil finish, ensuring no two chairs wear the same surface, and the surface only improves with time. Three considered decisions distinguish this as camp furniture rather than city seating. Brass castors allow daily rearrangement — chair to the deck for morning coffee, back inside by evening — moving smoothly over jute and rug without lifting, exactly as Victorian furniture navigated the colonial bungalow. Deep button tufting pulls the leather into permanent tension, so a seat hosting a different guest every third night holds its shape for years instead of slumping into singular memory. The pull-up leather grade self-burnishes: scuffs from luggage and boots rub back into the wax with a palm, the crucial difference between furniture that survives hospitality and furniture that merely begins in it. Humidity-treated throughout for tented and forest-lodge environments. Its compact footprint fits the corner between bed and canvas wall where a full armchair cannot, pairing naturally with a folding tray table to create the classic safari vignette: chair, tray, binoculars, view. Specified per-suite for resorts in any quantity, it translates equally well to study or bedroom corners in the city, bringing the camp's ease indoors. A chair built to weather the demands of the forest and the discernment of collectors alike.