One workshop draws, builds, sews and installs every piece it puts its name to.
Tailor Booth is a small commercial upholstery house in Clearwater, Florida. Designers, hoteliers and restaurateurs bring us a plan, a sketch or a photograph of the room. We return shop drawings, and then the seating itself: frames cut to the inch, foam to the drawing, the cover cut and sewn in-house, delivered and set in place by the people who made it.
Nothing is stocked. Every commission begins on paper and ends on site.
Studies of the rooms we build for most. Every piece in them is a configuration this workshop makes to order.
A straight banquette on a recessed plinth, smooth-backed so the leather shows, with a welted seat edge and a back kept low to hold the sightline to the pass. Built in sections to the wall and joined where it turns.
A curved banquette built on the arc of the alcove. The channels are sewn and filled one at a time so they hold their line around the bend, and the velvet is cut with the nap running one way across the whole piece.
A wall-length banquette in deep-buttoned oxblood leather, every button drawn through the foam and anchored to the frame. The brass rail along the top is drawn on the same sheet, at the height the room wants.
Lobby seating in a loop-pile boucle over high-density foam, fabricated as three sections to fit the elevator and joined on site without a visible seam. The brass-legged tables were drawn with it.
Every cover is cut and sewn in the same room as the frame it will dress. It is why the two fit.
Nothing here is upholstered until the frame has been stood up and checked against the drawing. Then the cover is cut with the nap running one way and sewn to the piece rather than to a pattern, which is slow, and is why it fits.
So each holds its line, even around a curve.
Deep tufting that holds its fold.
Where the machine cannot reach, a curved needle does.
Velvet reads as one surface across the whole piece.
Commercial vinyl, velvet, full-grain leather and boucle from our library, or the bolt you send.
A booth is judged by what it is sitting on after ten thousand services. This is the order it goes together in.
Powder-coated, with adjustable levelers
Kiln-dried, glued, screwed and corner-blocked
Cut to the drawing, layered for the seat and the back
Vinyl, velvet, leather or your own material
Channels, tufts, welts and stitching
Materials specified to the standard the project requires
A floor plan, a sketch, an inspiration image or a photograph of the room, with rough dimensions. Most pieces can be quoted from that.
Plan and elevation with every dimension, issued for your approval before anything is cut. The drawing is the specification.
Your COM or COL, or a selection from the library. Samples on request. Fire-rated options where the code asks for them.
Kiln-dried hardwood and powder-coated steel, fabricated in Clearwater to the approved drawing.
Sewn, channeled, tufted and finished in-house by the people who built the frame.
White-glove, anywhere in the country, timed to your opening and leveled in place before we leave.
Much of our work comes through the trade. We work from your plan and your finish schedule, hold your COM until the drawings are approved, and keep the install crew on your program.
