New Leather. Lumix M4/3 20mm

Back in 1993 - I can't wrap my head around that being nearly 30 years ago -, I made a pair of side chairs.  They were a rite-of-passage and an experiment.  Chairs hold particular challenges for woodworkers: they must not only do all the things that chairs do, like being just the right height, and having just the right ergonomic angle to the back, but they must be strong, light and stable.  I decided that lapped dovetail joinery throughout would provide a structural and aesthetically pleasing solution to the challenge, the melding of form and function.  I can report that having sat at my desk on this chair for all of these years, the joints are as tight as they were in the beginning; the experiment can be judged a success!  Would I combine such a smorgasbord of  New England woods - cherry, walnut and birdseye maple - in one place now?  Probably not; the sins of youth at work.  Originally, this chair was upholstered in a plaid green fabric which did not hold up so well...  There was batting and foam spilling out at the front, it was hard as a rock to sit on, and a sorry sight at the end.  About two years ago, in the midst of Lockdown, I found the website of a company in Italy which sells leather off-cuts. They couldn't guarantee that the color of the leather would match what was ordered, so it was a welcome surprise when the package showed up containing two beautiful baby goat skins, one tan, the other black, exactly as requested.  Over the weekend, I bought new foam, Dacron batting and Cambric for the underside, and set to work.  Here is the result. 
After some searching, I found the slides of the chair, taken when it was brand new, and scanned a couple.  Here they are as Extras.  I noticed for the first time that the upholsterer didn't do a nice job of centering the pattern on the chair.  Oh, well, it's water over the dam now.  One of my x-ray colleagues commented that if I hadn't said anything about the fabric alignment, nobody would have been any the wiser.  I think looking at the congruence of bones for 17 years has heightened my powers of detail observation - as has Blipping.