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The full seating group seen past the sage chair, with pale rafters and a wall of glass beyond
Our makers · Apulia, Italy

Natuzzi

Italian leather upholstery since 1959, from a company that still runs its own tannery. The one maker on our floor that is not within a day’s drive of Amish country.

Pasquale Natuzzi started the company in 1959 in a rented studio apartment in Taranto, in Apulia, at the arch of southern Italy. By his own account the equipment was a second-hand sewing machine, a hammer and four scissors. The first sofas came out of that room.

What grew out of it is the largest furniture maker in Italy, and the part that matters for a showroom floor is the vertical integration. Natuzzi runs its own tannery and its own Italian factories, so the hide is followed from the tannery through to the finished piece rather than bought in as a commodity. That traceability is the reason their leather behaves consistently from one order to the next.

The group sells under several names. Natuzzi Italia is the design-led line; Natuzzi Editions, which is what you will mostly see here, is the broader collection built around comfort and configuration — reclining sectionals, motion seating, and leather you can actually live on.

They are the outlier among our makers, and deliberately so. Everything else on this floor comes out of a family shop within a day’s drive of Holmes County. Natuzzi is here because there are things Italian leather does that nothing in Ohio does, and a room sometimes wants one of them.

What they build
Leather upholstery — sectionals, reclining and motion seating, chairs, from their own Italian tannery
We visit the shops we buy from. Come see their work in person at our West Ashley showroom.
A sage green leather chair beside a small round oak end table with a ceramic lamp at a glass wall
Sage, on its own
A leather chair in a color most makers will not attempt. Ask in store to see the leather books.
A cream leather reclining sectional wrapping a corner behind a round oak pedestal coffee table
A sectional that reclines without looking like it
The mechanism is inside the shape rather than bolted onto it.
The arm of a cream leather sectional beside the sculptural oak base of a round coffee table
Cream leather, close up
Followed from their own tannery through to the finished piece, which is why it behaves the same twice.
“A second-hand sewing machine, a hammer and four scissors.”
Natuzzi, on starting out in 1959
Since
1959
Started in a rented room in Taranto.
Home
Apulia, Italy
The arch of southern Italy.
Founder
Pasquale Natuzzi
Still the name over the door.
Leather
Own tannery
Hide traced from tannery to finished piece.
Their work

Rooms featuring Natuzzi

A sage green leather chair and cream leather reclining sectional on travertine in a white room with floor-to-ceiling glazing onto dry grasslandLiving

Sage Leather and a Wall of Glass

One wall of glass, two pale leathers and a pair of round oak tables. A room arranged in silhouettes, because the light was never going to let it be anything else.
A single Aruba Blue poly Adirondack chair on a mown hillside at first light, mist over the treeline
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Let’s design your room together.

Sit down with one of our furniture specialists. Bring photographs, measurements, a paint chip or simply an idea, and leave with a clear plan for your room.
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1750 Sam Rittenberg Blvd, Charleston SC · (843) 225-2513
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Nothing is priced online and nothing ships from a warehouse. Tell us what you are looking at, and someone who knows the workshop will come back to you within one business day.