Today, the majority of upholstery now sold in the UK is imported from Eastern Europe, China and the Far East. Virtually all are made on a chipboard frame, which has been stapled together to meet the low price demands of the mass-market retail trade.

If you want a sofa or chair to last more than a few years and perhaps have it re-upholstered in the future, you need to have a 100% hardwood frame.

At PF, each model is manufactured on a hardwood frame, made by skilled frame makers in our own wood mill to such a high standard that we guarantee them for fifteen years.

We purchase beech or birch hardwoods from renewable sources, usually from Canada, Scandinavia or the Baltic States and all frames are constructed using traditional methods of glued, screwed and dowelled joints. All of our sofas and chairs have some form of steel springs in the seat. We do not use rubber, elastic or polypropylene webbing in the seat, which is typically used in lower quality upholstery.

At PF, we use two types of metal spring. The type of spring system our designers select is dependant on the individual design and whether or not the sofa or chair should have a soft or firm sit.

If a soft seat is required, we will use a coil spring unit. This type of spring system is commonly used in our more traditional designs. A heavy gauge tempered steel no-sag spring is used if a firm or very firm seat is desired and is typically used in our more contemporary models.

For springs, we give the same fifteen year guarantee as we do on our frames.