Leather stretching  

Hello everyone,

Just as I've mentioned in a previous thread, I am in the process of recovering an Egg chair with leather (my upholsterer is)..and it looks like there's several others on the board doing the same projects.

I decided to go with the Elegance leather from Arne Sorensen (which is one of the standard Fritz Hansen uses). It is a really nice thick full grained leather, however, the upholsterer is having a lot of trouble stretching the leather out (as it has little give). He has tried wetting and warming the leather but the leather strunk! Is there any tips/ tricks anybody would like to share??? The solution I'm presented now is to have a seam running right in the center or go with a thinner leather...(the seam wouild be a big NO!) Help! anyone??