Happy 4th of July!
Townsend Leather wishes you and your family an exciting holiday! We will see you next week.… Full Aritcle
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Townsend Leather wishes you and your family an exciting holiday! We will see you next week.
Whether its by way of memories or pop-culture induced imaginings; conjuring up wavy-gravy images of lounging in a wood paneled basement, listening to records on big ear-enveloping headphones, while sitting next to a leather “bumper” wrapped home bar – brings a relaxed, groovy, smile to your face.
We wanted to take this groovy feeling and build some leather options around it, but with our own Modern twist to it.
A new offering from Townsend Leather, what we are calling our, “Rec Room” series.
Taking some classic retro looks & feels and reinterpreting them for modern day.
And these aren’t just inspired by retro looks – they are the real deal. Townsend Leather has an unparalleled embossing library and most of the patterns chosen for The Rec Room series are actual embossing rolls made in the 60’s and 70’s. They aren’t retro-looking patterns, they are a step back in time to the actual patterns of the day.
You can see this 60’s/70’s, Retro-with-Modern-Flare trend influencing all kinds of things in the fashion and design worlds.
From the growing popularity of Instagram and its weathered photo look (take a look at this Instagram desktop search site: SearchInstagram), to the interior design influence of retro/modern interiors, to current fashion with mixes of patterns and dangly accessories.
This is a series of leather that you can use to bring a bit of nostalgia and a bit of whimsy to your projects, while still maintaining a modern sensibility.
These leathers are hand-crafted on supple lambskin, but can be reinterpreted for cowhide. And as always we can customize to suit your needs, use the Rec Room series as a starting point, as inspiration, a jump-off to add your own Modern Retro twist to a project.
Contact us at info@townsendleather.com for more information on The Rec Room series.
We wanted to offer you a quick break in the middle of this week. A little mid-week fun for this “hump day”.
We recently stumbled across an old Townsend mini-site that we made a couple years ago and thought it would be fun to dust it off and share it.
Townsend Leather loves color, and made this Color Quiz Site to have some fun with the idea of “How Your Personality is Colored”.
Go ahead click the link below, take a minute to explore your Color Personality and have some fun.
Townsend Leather’s Color Personality Quiz
A couple simple choices and you get to see a tailored result that reveals something about your personality and color preference; take it a couple times and see the different results you get.
And when you’re done learning about your deep inner self; take your color inspiration and Townsend Leather product palette, and browse our sample store to really find all the colors, patterns, and leathers that speak to you.
And since we want this “quiz” to be fun (more like a quiz-show and less like a quiz-test). We want you to have a chance at winning a prize!
After you take the quiz and get inspired, make a Lightbox from our sample catalog – showcasing some of your favorite leather selections and share it on Facebook.
Like us on Facebook, share your Lightbox Link, tag us in your post, and you may just win a special prize!*
Enjoy the rest of your week and your color fun!
Get connected with us and see what’s happening at Townsend…
*Prizes will be awarded based on a variety of variables, not all submissions will win
Townsend Leather was proud to participate in our local Relay For Life event.
Through tremendous team effort and very generous personal matching donations from our President, Jared, Townsend Leather raised just barely under $3,000!
Our tent at the walk event had a lot going on. We were raffling Yankees game tickets, and a TL Townsend Leather handbag, as well as selling cowbells, hats and other trinkets.
Another hot item at our tent was our custom made “Buck Cancer” Townsend Leather Bulls Relay Team T-Shirts.
We were also passing out Townsend Leather calendars, and even got some help from the local mascot!
We even had a “mascot” of our own, our crowd-pleasing, ready-to-entertain, HR Generalist, Ben, making sure no one went home empty handed.
And we had hand crafted temporary tattoos and hair extensions, to add some blign to your thing.
And dont forget the exciting game we setup for all tent visitors to enjoy – Pin the Mustache On The Bull!
It was a great day with great weather and great company. It was exciting and humbling to be a part of such a meaningful and powerful event.
The Fulton-Montgomery County Relay For Life event raised an astounding $108,481.68.
As always Townsend was happy to get involved in raising money for cancer research through the events and fundraisers we did in the building and at the Relay event. And we eagerly look forward to next year!
Townsend Leather’s new Abstract Art Series showcasing the Eastern Lattice and Striations cowhide was shown in the May 2013 edition of Interior Design Magazine.
The 2013 annual Fulton Montgomery New York Livability Magazine featured a mention of Townsend Leather and upstate New York manufacturing.
The “We’ve Got It Made” article said:
Local Manufacturers produce wide variety of Quality goods
FOLLOWING TRADITION
Leather-making shares in the economic tradition here, as there were more than 300 leather companies in Johnstown and Gloversville in the late 1800s and early 1900s. About a dozen leather companies operate here today, notably Townsend Leather, which makes upholstery leather for aircraft, yachts and automobiles…
The local Chamber of Commerce was proud to mention Townsend, and Townsend is equally proud to be shown as an example of quality manufacturing going strong in upstate New York.
Townsend Leather’s sister company, The Leather Institute – the experts in leather care, cleaning, maintenance and services – just spread its expertise even further across the globe.
The Leather Institute has a long list of expertly trained affiliates, who deeply understand the ins and outs of The Leather Institute’s proprietary processes that preserve the beauty and prolong the service life of leather. They now have added one more to that list, the leading business jet operator in Asia, MetroJet, based in Hong Kong.
MetroJet announced the partnership on their website yesterday, see the Leather Institute MetroJet Press Release here
