Leather furniture specialist dies
The chief executive of leather furniture group Halo, Timothy Oulton, has died.
Halo grew out of an antiques business launched in Manchester in the 1970s by Mr Oulton’s father. It developed to become a high-end furniture company with five manufacturing hubs and 350 employees across the world.
Mr Oulton insisted on using “only the purest materials”, including hand-softened aniline leathers, reclaimed timbers, natural marble and ancient rock crystal. He launched a retail brand in his own name in 2008. In 2010, he launched his own leather distribution service, Halo Touch.
Timothy Oulton was known to visitors to the APLF exhibition. When the event celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2014, it invited an international team of designers to help it celebrate by staging an event called ‘Live In Leather’. Mr Oulton was one of the designers who took part.
Image: Halo.
