A range of products made from boiled leather by designer Simon Hasan is on show at the Royal College of Art Show Two in London, which closes tomorrow. Hasan has so far applied the process to make ...

Here are some more images of boiled leather furniture by Tortie Hoare, the winning project from New Designers Part 2 2010 (see our earlier story). The collection is made up of two seats ...

Collectors in search of unusual materials at Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile design fair should expect the unexpected ...

However, the question the appendix doesn't answer and which has intrigued me most as I've turned page after page is this: what is boiled leather? Seriously, the stuff is all over the book.

The menu in Leningrad during this period of the war included wallpaper, window putty and soup made of boiled leather. The commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the blockade was ...