For Daniel, upholstery has been a life-long passion. He joined a family business at a local antique furniture restoration shop in the UK, learning traditional techniques alongside makers who had learned them the same way — by feel, by stitch, by patient repetition. In 2000 he moved to New Zealand and kept working: re-covering heirlooms, designing custom furniture, redrawing the inside of boats and cars and cafés.
Today, The Upholstery Company is a single-bench workshop in Rosedale, Auckland, where every commission is met by the same hands that learned the craft thirty years ago. We work on Mercedes vans and Edwardian chesterfields with equal seriousness. We use traditional materials when traditional materials are right, and modern technical fabrics when they are. We give honest quotes. We finish what we start.
From a yacht's saloon to a barista's banquette, every commission comes through the same workshop and the same upholsterer. The discipline changes; the standard does not.
Custom furniture design and manufacture for cafés, bars, hotels and offices. Whether you want to expand an existing suite, create a stylish new look or have a custom bed headboard made — if you can think it, we can make it.
A full range of automotive upholstery services. Motor bike seat repairs, vehicle interior repairs, automotive carpets, hood linings, door panels, dashboards, tonneau covers, custom upholstery, full re-trims and caravan refits — done properly.
Extensive experience working on boat interiors and covers. Full interiors, refits, replacement canopies, clears, zips and fastenings. Custom-made squabs and hull linings — built to live with salt, sun and the Hauraki.
Traditional restoration of antique furniture. We re-foam and re-upholster seats and suites using traditional techniques and materials — horsehair, hessian, double-cone springs, hand-stitched edges — to breathe new life into old works of art.
A one-stop shop for recovering and repairing furniture with sentimental or design value. Whatever its current condition, almost anything can be brought back to life — far better than throwing it out and far better for the planet, too.
A working selection of pieces that have passed through the Rosedale workshop. Click any plate for a closer look — the full archive runs to more than one hundred projects.
More than one hundred projects archived in the workshop library.
"For Daniel, upholstery has been a life-long passion. He joined a family business at a local antique furniture restoration shop in the UK. He moved to NZ in 2000 and continued to work on furniture recoveries as well as designing and building custom furniture."
He broadened his skills to include automotive upholstery, commercial fit-outs and has had extensive experience working on boat interiors and covers. Today he runs the bench at The Upholstery Company in Rosedale.
Give Daniel a call for a free quote on any type of upholstery job for the home, workplace, boat or vehicle. Pick-up and delivery is available Auckland-wide (charges may apply).
Send photos, dimensions and a description. Daniel replies with a free, honest quote and a realistic timeline. No on-site visit required — though one can be arranged.
Pick-up and delivery is available Auckland-wide. Charges may apply for the outer suburbs. Bring it in to Rosedale if you'd rather see the workshop in person.
The piece is stripped, assessed, rebuilt where required, and re-covered in the fabric or hide you've chosen. You're welcome to visit mid-build to see how it's going.
Delivered back to you. We finish what we start, and we stand behind it. If something isn't right, ring Daniel and we'll put it right.
Tucked behind Apollo Drive in Rosedale, the workshop is open by appointment. Bring the piece in, or send photos and we'll come pick it up.
A handful of clear photos, rough measurements, and a sentence about what you'd like done — that's all it takes to get a free, no-obligation quote.
