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In this hot real estate market, finding and buying the ideal property is challenging. Buyers may find they need to settle for less than perfect. But if you find yourself not exactly in the home of your dreams, you can at least fill it with fabulous furniture. American Leather is here to help you do just that. T he Dallas-based company has been designing custom and cutting-edge furniture for more than 30 years and their creativity shows no sign of slowing down. The work starts in the company's innovation lab with a full product development team who are focused on finding creative solutions to traditional problems with furniture, as well as putting a new twist on common pieces. For instance, the Comfort Sleeper ® is a pull-out sofa bed that has no bars or springs to dig into the body of the poor guest delegated to sleeping on it. It truly is comfortable and was one of the first products the company produced. According to Chief Revenue Officer Stefanie Lucas, the category of movement in seating is now a growing market and American Leather has responded to it with their line of motion furniture. Lucas said the idea stemmed from the reality that your grandfather's recliner was super comfortable, but not attractive, so the innovation team looked at ways to capture the comfort in something that would look good in a home. Using new technology, they created the Comfort Air™ chair that not only reclines, but swivels, and glides and essentially moves as you move, with a sensation of floating. The chair itself appears to float above the ground and it is customizable with hundreds of fabric and leather options. The company's Comfort Air chairs and Comfort Sleeper are patented and part of a line of 30 patented products that the company has developed. Lucas explains that the company V U E N J .C O M 55

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