I like two chairs to match. I especially don't like having sofa in one leather and a chair in another leather. If you have room for one other small chair(a 3rd), then I would change the fabric. If you are doing the chairs in fabric, I would not have them from the same set as the sofa. I guess you will get different answers from everyone, but this is what I like!

Are you asking for a style of chair, color, or for a type of upholstery that would work with your leather sofa set? As for style the most important thing to find is a chair with the right scale. Small chairs with large leather pieces don't generally work well. Color is so subjective and depends on your wall and rug colors. My personal preference is to use a patterned upholstery in darker colors with brown leather. One of my fav upholstery choices with leather is a heavy tapestry and there are many colors and patterns to choose from.

Sueb20, I'd love to see a picture of your room. I have been longing for a wild lime/acid yellow leather chair. My plan was to put it on a traditional style-- but I never found the right chair/leather color in the same line. I am relieved to see the responses to this thread as I am struggling with the same right now. I purchased two chairs on clearance (but neither was inexpensive--part of the problem here) and a custom leather sofa. I don't know what I was thinking at the time-- well, I do know. I had zero spare time but I had put off furniture shopping for soooo long. I let the store designer talk me into purchasing two chairs from the floor and then I ordered the sofa in the color I had been searching for-- an earthy/organic green-brown. Long story short--the chair and the sofa are two very different colors of brown. It looks like I tried to match them and didn't.. or worse, it looks like I shopped the clearance floor. Not the look I was shooting for. Some tell me they work well together-- others tell me they don't. The furniture store is willing to exchange both chairs (the scale of the other chair is just completely wrong--that one will be returned regardless). The problem is the leather chair has been discontinued so I can't get the same chair in the same leather as the sofa. I love the comfort of the chair but am struggling to make it work. I think maybe an upholstered chair would help take the focus away from the two that don't match. In the meantime, I am looking for another chair from the same manufacturer that is just as comfortable... or an additional chair that works with all. Anyhow.. your posts give me faith that I can make them all work together.

That's a finished leather (also called Protected or Pigmented) and it's a painted finish atop the hide. That's by far the most common genuine leather finish, the other which is typically on higher end pieces is Aniline (vegetable dyed). Aniline leathers don't show marks like that, what you are seeing is paint chips because that chair was put on a hand truck and moved without a pad being on the back. Those are typical marks from handling. The good news is paint is paint. Get a small bottle of water-based acrylic paint from the local craft store and a tiny detail brush. Paint is a buck a bottle, so buy a color lighter than the chair and also black - blend as needed to get the shade Get matte finish if you have an option Then simply paint the areas with the chips, when dry, take a little leather conditioner on your finger and massage that area with it and that will blend out any edges. This is a 5 minute repair and will hold up well. I've done hundreds of them.