Metallic Leather Restoration & Refurbishment
Mold spotting, oxidation and colour loss on metallic and pearlised leather — lifted without dulling the finish.
Metallic and pearlised leather carries its shimmer in a thin foiled top layer, and that layer is what fails first — mold spotting in humid storage, oxidation that greys the tone, colour lifting at corners and folds. We clean the spotting out, arrest the oxidation and re-lay colour by hand, matched to the original metallic tone.
Metallic leather restoration in Singapore
Metallic and pearlised leather is the finish that suffers most in Singapore's humidity, and DIOR is the house that reaches the Tanjong Pagar bench most often for it — Diorama, Diorever and Lady DIOR — alongside CHANEL metallic flaps and the 2.55 Reissue in silver. The shimmer sits in a thin foiled layer over the hide, which is why it spots and greys long before the leather underneath shows any damage at all.
Mold spotting is cleaned out at the source rather than wiped over, the oxidation that greys the tone is arrested, and colour is re-laid by hand to match the original metallic. Corners and folds get the most attention — they flex, so they lose the layer there first.
Metallic is less forgiving than flat colour: the shimmer comes from the coating itself, so a re-laid section can read slightly different in direct light, and we show you that before any work starts. Where the layer has lifted away entirely, the panel needs replacing rather than restoring. Mold can also return in the same storage that caused it, which is why this line carries no warranty against recurrence.
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