COW LEATHER VS. BIOLEATHER

Leather is one of the most specified and least interrogated materials in interior environments, quietly carrying implications for long-term human exposure. What is typically framed as an aesthetic or durability choice is, in reality, a decision that influences air quality, waste trajectories, and upstream ecological pressures. The contrast between traditional cow leather and emerging bio-based alternatives is therefore not a simple sustainability story, but a deeper question of material behaviour, processing logic, and end-of-life consequences.