Hill by Quinti, with or without armrests: two footprints, 80 × 80 cm or 98 × 90 cm
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Two chairs share one name and one build, and the difference is written in centimetres. Without armrests, Hill by Quinti sits on an 80 × 80 cm footprint (31 1/2 in square), 73 cm high; with armrests the same piece spreads to 98 × 90 cm (38 5/8 × 35 3/8 in) and rises to 76 cm. Read the two rows together and the armrests cost 18 cm of width and 10 of depth. On a layout those are not two options on one line but two pieces of furniture, and the walkway beside a row of them is not the same walkway.
What does not change is worth knowing before the visitor seating is chosen: an inner metal skeleton padded with cold-foamed polyurethane, a seat cushion on elastic straps, adjustable chrome feet, a cover double-stitched in leather and left plain in fabric, a seat at 40 cm in both versions. Atelier Borella, the studio behind the design, gave Hill a retro profile that reads as one soft block, and Quinti lists it among the pieces supplied in 2024 to the Peserico flagship stores on Madison Avenue, New York, and Newbury Street, Boston. In a front desk area that record says more than a rendering.
The remaining pieces sort themselves by purpose. To sit: a two-seater of 153 cm (60 1/4 in) with a 38 cm seat, and an ottoman on the same 80 × 80 plan, 40 cm high. To rest things on: a table that is natural concrete through and through, 60 × 60 cm and 37 cm high, and a writing table with a Ø 30 cm painted wood top on a black metal frame, in four wood finishes. To turn: a 360° swivel plate with no return. All of it in every fabric column from 2 to 8 except the sixth, and in IM, with a version built on fire-retardant foams approved 1IM, filed by the manufacturer under hospitality: waiting areas, lounges, the coffee corner of an office. La Mercanti marks both footprints on the client’s layout, so the version is chosen by the space and not by the photograph.
- Collection: Hill, lounge seating with tables (Lounge Collection)
- Manufacturer: Quinti Sedute Srl, Cesa (Arezzo), Italy
- Design: Atelier Borella
- Type: fully upholstered armchair, two-seater sofa and ottoman, with a concrete table and a writing table
- Armchair QX0520001: no armrests, fully upholstered, on adjustable feet; 80 × 80 cm (31 1/2 × 31 1/2 in), height 73 cm (28 3/4 in); seat 64 cm (25 1/4 in) deep and 40 cm (15 3/4 in) from the floor; 19 kg (42 lb); 0.60 m³ (21.2 cu ft)
- Armchair with armrests QX052000S: same construction and same feet as the armchair above; width 98 cm (38 5/8 in), depth 90 cm (35 3/8 in), height 76 cm (29 7/8 in); 0.30 m³ (10.6 cu ft)
- Ottoman QX052000P: fully upholstered, same footprint as the armchair, height 40 cm (15 3/4 in); 12 kg (26 lb); 0.35 m³ (12.4 cu ft)
- Two-seater sofa QX0520002: fully upholstered, 153 × 80 cm (60 1/4 × 31 1/2 in), height 70 cm (27 1/2 in); seat 65 cm (25 5/8 in) deep and 38 cm (15 in) from the floor; 38 kg (84 lb); 1.00 m³ (35.3 cu ft)
- Writing table QX0520T00: side table for the armchair, black metal frame, painted wood top Ø 30 cm (11 3/4 in), height 60 cm (23 5/8 in); 1 kg (2 lb)
- Top finishes: RT Moka, NP open-pore black, RN natural, NC walnut
- Table QX052000T: base and top in natural concrete, 60 × 60 cm (23 5/8 × 23 5/8 in), height 37 cm (14 5/8 in); 15 kg (33 lb); 0.25 m³ (8.8 cu ft)
- Swivel plate XX052GIR0: 360° swivel support for the armchair, without return; accessory
- Frame: inner metal skeleton
- Padding: high-density cold-foamed polyurethane
- Seat cushion: reinforced with elastic straps
- Feet: adjustable, chrome-plated
- Stitching: double in leather; none in fabric
- Fire-safe version: fire-retardant foams approved 1IM
- Declared tests: 1IM approval; CAM compliance (Italian public procurement criteria)
- Upholstery: categories 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 and IM; Crepè and category 6 leather not available
- Manufacturer’s category: Hospitality, Lounge Collection
- Origin: Made in Italy
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FAQ
Which fabric categories can be ordered on Hill?
Six columns in all: the numbered ones run from 2 up to 8 with the sixth left out, and IM stands beside them. Category 2 holds Laser and the Ecopelle; category 3 the Trevira CS cloths Melange and Era, with Jet, Chili and the Ecopelle Soul; category 5 Cocoon, Lana and Glamour; category 7 Bouclet and the Premium and Elegance leathers; category 8 Zero among others. The practical consequence for a reception is that one profile can run through three rooms while the hand of the cover changes from one to the next.
Is the little round table sold on its own line?
Yes. Quinti codes it QX0520T00, a writing table conceived for the armchair: a black metal frame carrying a painted wood top of Ø 30 cm, standing 60 cm off the floor and weighing 1 kg (2 lb) in all. The top is ordered in one of four finishes, Moka or walnut, natural or open-pore black. One kilo is the figure the manufacturer prints, and the separate code is the detail that matters when the order is written: the table is counted on its own line, never assumed to come with the chair.
What should never touch the chrome feet of Hill?
Steel cleaners, chlorine, bleach, strong detergents, abrasive creams, scouring pads and abrasive sponges: Quinti rules them all out for its metal parts. What it allows is short: warm water, a soft cloth, nothing else; a little liquid soap diluted in that water when a mark is stubborn; then immediate drying, soft cloth or chamois. One warning stands apart from the rest, and it is the manufacturer’s, not ours: coffee, cola and juice are named as liquids that can mark the metal for good. Beside a table that carries the drinks of a waiting room, that is the line to read twice.
Why does the two-seater sit two centimetres lower than the armchairs?
Quinti gives the sofa a seat 38 cm (15 in) from the floor against 40 on both armchairs, and makes it a touch deeper too: 65 cm (25 5/8 in) against 64. The overall height follows, 70 cm (27 1/2 in) for the sofa and 73 for the armchair. Two centimetres are invisible in a photograph and visible in a row: side by side, we read the sofa as the more relaxed seat and the armchair as the more upright one. Mixing the two in one waiting area is legitimate; mixing them on one wall without knowing this is not.
Does the Velours stand up to a waiting room?
Quinti lists Velours in category 3 at 611 g, 100% polyester, with an Oeko test and 50,000 Martindale cycles. Those are the manufacturer’s three figures, and our reading of them is this: the velvet suits a reception that receives visitors all day rather than a hotel corridor where the same seat is used around the clock. Its pile is the reason people choose it; the cycle count is the reason they can.
How to clean a leather-covered Hill the way Quinti prescribes it
The leather care rules Quinti publishes for Hill, in the order a housekeeping team applies them: water first, products only after a 24-hour test, and the whole cover treated as the delicate material it is declared to be.
Wipe Hill using water alone
The first and most frequent cleaning of a leather-covered Hill is a white cloth, damp with plain water, passed over the cover and nothing else. No soap, no spray, no all-purpose cleaner: Quinti writes water only, and it writes white cloth, two words that are easy to skip and are the whole of the first step.
Pick a proper leather product
When water is not enough, the manufacturer allows good-quality leather products, used exactly as their own instructions say. Quality is the manufacturer’s word, and the instructions to follow are the product maker’s, not a habit learned on another sofa.
Test a hidden patch 24 hours
When in doubt, any product goes first on a part of the cover nobody sees, and the result is judged after twenty-four hours, not after ten minutes. Quinti puts the hidden test and the waiting time in writing, one after the other, and the second is the one that gets skipped.
Give the seams nothing extra
The leather cover of Hill is sewn with a double stitch, a line that stays visible on the finished piece. Nothing in the manufacturer’s instructions singles the seams out, and nothing needs to: the damp white cloth of the first step does for the stitched line exactly what it does for the rest of the hide, no more and no less.
Treat it as delicate
Quinti files leather under delicate materials, and that word governs the other four steps: water before products, products only with their own instructions, a hidden test before any of them, a day of patience before judging. Delicate is not a warning against use; it is the reason the routine is light, and the reason it is the manufacturer’s routine and not a habit.