Yeah our last couches in the entrance room of the last place were leather, really nice chocolate ones (about 5 shades darker then my truffle interior) and they were great, got them at Jerome's for like 1k, which to me wasn't bad for leather that had that "worm" look to it. (which I like the whole modern thing). I too have always heard Italian Leathers are best thou, ours wasn't the highest quality but very durable which is what I cared about because we beat the crap out of it! GL