A woman who has just had a baby should not have to plump cushions at two in the morning. That sounds like a small and obvious detail. It was not a small detail. And it told us very quickly that the Salome Glider was not yet what it needed to be. When we first designed the chair, comfort was our obsession. We filled it with generous feather cushioning so that the moment someone sat down, they immediately relaxed into it. Clients loved that feeling. They would sink into the chair and never want to leave it.
But beautiful comfort on day one means very little if it does not last. After weeks of night feeds, contact naps, and long hours spent nursing a newborn, the cushions began to lose their shape. The chair still felt soft, but it no longer looked as refined as we wanted it to. And if something sits in a nursery every day, often becoming the most-used seat in the house, it has to withstand real life beautifully. So we went back to the workroom and started again.
We tested feather ratios. Foam densities. Different internal structures. Different combinations of softness and support. We sat in prototypes for months trying to find the balance between comfort and resilience. By day 400, the chair still needed to feel like day one. Eventually, we found it.
Then another detail surfaced. Some clients were adding pillows along with the armrests during feeds. The armrest was elegant, but it had not fully answered the reality of what a nursing mother actually does in that chair for hours at a time. Feeding a baby changes how you sit, where you lean, how your shoulders rest, how your arms carry weight. So we redesigned the armrests too.
Then came another conversation. Clients told us the back was not tall enough. They wanted to lean back fully without still having to support their own head. That feedback eventually led to the creation of an entirely new chair: the Wingback Glider, designed with a higher backrest so mothers could properly rest their heads during feeds and those long, quiet hours with a sleeping baby nearby.
The Salome Glider today is very different from the chair we first introduced. It is fully upholstered, with overstuffed cushioning, a gentle gliding motion, and a swivel base designed to support the rhythm of everyday life with a newborn. Clients can choose from hundreds of fabrics or leather finishes, add contrast piping, personalise the chair with an embroidered name or family crest, and pair it with either a fixed or storage footstool.
What we love most is what happens after the nursery years. Most clients tell us the chair never leaves the house. It moves from nursery to sitting room, from feeding chair to reading chair, from one stage of family life to the next. That matters to us deeply because we never wanted to create nursery furniture that felt temporary.
The Salome was shaped by real mothers, real routines, and real feedback. Every adjustment came from listening more carefully to how families actually live. And in many ways, that is how our furniture pieces are made.
If you are preparing for a new arrival, or sourcing for a nursery design project, we would love for you to experience the Salome Glider for yourself. Explore the Salome Nursery Glider and other gliding and rocking nursing chairs here.