The word 'upholstery' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to furniture or accessories that are padded and covered with fabric, leather, or other materials. For example, "We recently had the sofa in our living room reupholstered with green velvet."
BG It's in the arse end of Terry & June-ville, it's not much of a looker – gaudy black lacquer and frilly gold upholstery – but this seemingly bog-standard suburban Chinese serves dim sum to rival more lauded joints up west.
She has become a muse for New York fashion: Ralph Lauren based a 2006 collection on upholstery fabrics as a tribute to Apfel's work as a textile designer; last month, Apfel attended as guest of honour a catwalk show that the designer Joanna Mastroianni billed as being inspired by Apfel's style.
The vehicle's manufacturer took note, and by the late 1980s the Range Rover was a much more luxurious beast than before boasting deep carpets, wood-veneer trim, leather upholstery and air-conditioning.Deriding the new phenomenon of the "Chelsea tractor" became a popular pastime.
THE bold fuchsia-pink and tangerine-orange stripes of the upholstery are shocking enough, but the really unsettling feature of the new trains on the Paris metro is the lack of a driver.
In addition, the Italian firms have broadened their product ranges, moving beyond leather into fabric upholstery and making accessories too.
"Here at Alcatel-Lucent," he says, "we're the plumbers of the internet world".Alcatel's Paris headquarters are hardly more glamorous, feeling like "the admin wing of a Dallas company that specialised in carpeting and upholstery".
At the other end of the spectrum, he also began a series of designs for use on mass-produced dress and upholstery fabric.Long before the 1951 Festival of Britain, Moore's colourful and exuberant imagery led the Illustrated London News to predict that women would soon be "blossoming out as walking art galleries".
Renters may have less interest in the upkeep of these properties, and may be more likely to drag on to the porch that wobbly lounger with splitting vinyl upholstery.
Besides the upholstery, they are remembered for class war and economic meltdown; for the three-day week and the IMF bail-out; for picket lines, racial tension and violence in Northern Ireland and at football grounds.
During the second world war, when fabrics were heavily rationed, Elizabeth King, a florist, walked down the aisle in a gown made from a buttercup-patterned upholstery fabric.
He decried "comfort stations", "dining experiences", fringed upholstery, framed diplomas and collar-gape jackets.
