May 7, 2026
Leah Lane
A story about Leah Lane and the Howard shaped armchairs she bought in Jackson Lyme’s early days, celebrating the beauty of antiques left untouched and the charm of seeing them loved in a new home.
When we started Jackson Lyme, we were still finding our feet. The first few things we listed felt tentative: chosen carefully, described nervously. Among those early pieces was a pair of Howard shaped armchairs; comfortable, low, and covered in a fabric so beautiful in its deterioration that we almost kept them ourselves.
The chairs sold quickly, to Leah Lane.
Leah is the creator of My Mulberry House, a lifestyle platform built around what she calls “the magic of everyday”: interiors writing, short films, design guidance, and a philosophy of English country living rooted in the romantic, the nostalgic, and the quietly observed.
When the chairs arrived at Mulberry House six years ago, we had no idea how they’d be styled. That’s one of the stranger pleasures of selling antiques. You imagine your pieces in situ but rarely get to see it. Leah changed that. She began tagging us in photographs, and we found ourselves watching a room develop in real time: winter light falling differently across the chairs than summer light did; cut flowers in a vase beside them shifting with the season.
What touched us most was that she had never reupholstered them. The fabric remains exactly as it was. In a world that moves quickly toward restoration, there’s something quietly radical about choosing not to intervene. It speaks to an understanding that age is not a problem to be solved: that comfort outranks perfection, character outranks newness, and the story behind an object matters more than its surface condition.
