The Bremen Collage Recliner from Smith Brothers is a study in considered contrast — warm brown leather wrapping the seat and inside back, where your body actually meets the chair, paired with a cowhide-patterned fabric on the outside arms and back that gives the piece a quietly striking presence from across the room. It's the kind of detail that rewards a second look without announcing itself. The inside back is finished with pullover button tufting, a technique that requires hand placement of each button and gives the cushion its characteristic depth and structure. Rubbed bronze nailheads trace the edges, tying the leather and fabric panels together with a finish that feels collected rather than decorated. The legs are turned wood in a Shagbark finish — front legs removable for delivery, tapered back legs built into the frame — and they ground the whole chair in something with a little age and craft to it. The reclining mechanism is a clean pushback design: no handle, no lever, just the natural weight of leaning back. Smith Brothers builds each chair to order in their Indiana facility, and the Bremen is a special-order piece — made in the materials and finish specified here, not pulled from warehouse stock.
