Manufacturing
What goes into our furniture
What makes a good piece of furniture? Well, it is really quite simple: a truly good piece does not just look good, it is also practical, comfortable, functional and timelessly beautiful.
But for a piece to bring together all of those qualities, a great many people must have done a great many things very right beforehand. They must have chosen the best materials, for example. They must have worked and inspected them to the highest standards of craftsmanship, which is rather laborious (and leads some manufacturers to take the easier route). And before all of that comes the astute draft of a designer, who anticipates everything that makes sitting, relaxing and living a pleasure for years to come.
This is the kind of furniture we make at COR.
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individual fabric and leather covers stand for 500 different stretch behaviours we need to factor in when cutting
departments a COR piece passes through from the first work step to shipping
in-house production — in other words: we produce and inspect the vast majority ourselves
production employees ensure flawless furniture
Manufacturing
Woodwork
Base upholstery
Cutting
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Sewing
Upholstery
Quality control
Every sofa starts with a frame. Our joiners craft it from local, sustainable beech — the most solid foundation imaginable for a long furniture life. After the rails are prepared on the four-sided planer, mortises and tenons are glued and the frame is left to cure for several days before the serpentine springs are mounted by hand. Speaking of handwork: because we make almost everything ourselves, from the frame to the cover, we can build a Conseta sofa shorter, longer, higher or wider on request — exactly the way a customer needs it.
Every corner joint is mortised and tenoned. An intimate joiner's connection that is almost indestructible.
Only cut foam, assembled from foams of differing firmness and density, makes it possible to build upholstery elements that are still comfortable and hold their shape after many years.
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Seating comfort is the result of the craftsmanship with which we make our furniture.
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Good fabric is expensive, so anyone cutting our covering fabrics needs a keen eye and a steady hand. From the roughly 400 fabric variants in our collection, the right fabric is selected first and the individual pieces are checked for a precise fit. Cutting is done “true to the thread”, in other words following the grain of the fabric. That way we make sure the finished fabric cover gives the piece a beautifully even appearance rather than a restless one.
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When we work leather as a covering material, something else comes into play. As a genuine natural material that turns out differently with every hide, only certain areas of selected hides are suited to certain sections of a leather furniture cover. And those areas differ from model to model. Our leather specialists therefore have to know not only the material inside out, but the entire COR furniture range as well. Did we mention it already? Selecting the leather at the COR factory is a job that carries a great deal of responsibility. It involves thorough inspection, selection and inspection once more. But then leather is an equally exceptional and demanding covering material, one that in fact only grows more beautiful over the years.
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Our customers rest on their work: the three dozen or so seamstresses in the COR sewing shop make every furniture cover individually by hand. Along the way they keep checking that seams, zip, piping and grain really do sit properly. On leather upholstery we also punch air holes into the covers, so the air can simply escape when you sit down.
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Around 500 km of threads matched to the respective furniture cover are used up per week
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After frame building, leather cutting and the sewing shop have spent many hours on the preparatory work, the piece now visibly takes shape in the upholstery shop. Here the padding is “married” to its cover and the tuck-in welt — a typical COR detail that makes removing and refitting the cover enormously easier — is tapped into place.
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Feet and runners are fitted, cushions drawn into their covers. And with that, the piece turns into the home straight of its production.
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Seven times over the course of its production run, a COR piece is put through its paces. Before it is finally packed and shipped, it still has to pass the final inspection. Under high-wattage neon light — modelled on bright daylight and merciless in exposing every irregularity — every sofa, every armchair and every suite is fully assembled here and meticulously checked one more time.
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An old saying goes: twice is better than once. We say: seven times is better still.
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