Cortina Leathers has been importing premium Italian upholstery leathers to serve the architectural, interior design and commercial end-user markets in America and throughout the world, for the last quarter century. Now one of the largest importers of finished Italian hides, Cortina enters the 21st Century as the pre-eminent leather resource.Cortina has gained an international reputation for quality and service. Established as a high-end line of leathers for contract use by Elayne Dillon Siegman and Meryl Siegman, the only mother-daughter team in the industry, Cortina leathers can be found in thousands of contract, retail, high-end residential, hotel and restaurant installations, as well as in cruise ships, aircraft, sports facilities, airports and museums.Cortina's unique cachet is the product of its heritage. Our leather is tanned and finished exclusively in the Arzignano Valley of northern Italy, in the foothills of the Dolomites, the community where tanning began over 200 years ago.
