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Down, Foam or Spring: How to Choose Sofa Cushions

Choosing the right sofa cushion fill comes down to three factors: how the seat feels, how much upkeep you want, and how the piece will be used day to day. Hickory Chair, founded in 1911 in Hickory,...

Highland House: American-Made Upholstery You Can Specify Your Way

Highland House is an American upholstery house known for refined proportion and detailing that holds up through years of real use. Sutter & Vale carries the full line, and the reason designers ...

What Is Bench-Made Upholstery?

Bench-made upholstery means one craftsman, or a small dedicated team, builds a single frame from start to finish at a workbench rather than passing parts down a production line. C.R. Laine construc...

Jessica Charles: Bench-Crafted Seating Built Around the Way You Sit

Jessica Charles builds seating and almost nothing else, which is exactly what makes it worth your attention. Every chair in the Jessica Charles collection at Sutter & Vale is American bench-cra...

How to Care for Leather Furniture

Hancock & Moore leather furniture is built to last twenty or more years of daily use. The house selects each hide to a standard most upholstery makers never reach, then benches every piece in N...

Ambella Home: Bench-Made Upholstery and Casegoods From Virginia

Ambella Home is a family-owned American furniture house that builds its upholstery by hand in Archdale, North Carolina and designs casegoods, sink chests, and accent pieces in-house. Sutter & V...

How to Choose a Dining Table for Your Room Size

Choosing a dining table starts with one measurement: leave at least 36 inches between the table edge and every wall or adjacent piece of furniture. That clearance lets chairs pull out fully and all...

Jonathan Charles: European Reference, Made for Real Rooms

Jonathan Charles draws its references directly from historical European furniture, cutting veneer the way the antiques it studies were cut. At Sutter & Vale, the house spans four collections, I...

Counter Stool or Bar Stool? How to Get the Height Right

The difference between a counter stool and a bar stool is seat height. A counter stool suits surfaces 35 to 37 inches tall; a bar stool suits surfaces 40 to 42 inches tall. Sutter & Vale carrie...

Uttermost Mirrors: How to Choose a Statement Mirror

Uttermost mirrors, carried at Sutter & Vale, work best when the frame spans roughly two thirds of the wall or furniture piece below. For a 48-inch console, that means a mirror 32 to 40 inches w...