# Aeristo

> Aeristo is a leather house founded in 1991 in Grand Prairie, Texas. It develops and finishes leather for aviation, motor-yacht, automotive and hospitality interiors — more than 1,600 calibrated colour finishes, each developed to within ±0.5 ΔE under D65 / 10° observer. Hides are South German bull, tanned in Italy.

## Key facts

- Founded: 1991. Headquarters: 2550 N. Great Southwest Parkway, Grand Prairie, Texas 75050, USA.
- Sectors served: aviation (business-jet and VIP cabin interiors), motor yachts, automotive, hospitality.
- Compliance: leathers are specified to FAR 25.853 (aviation flammability), IMO MED (marine), and VDA 278 (automotive organic emissions) per programme; Blue Wool lightfastness, Martindale abrasion and REACH chemical discipline are specified per article. Test reports are issued per article, colour and dye lot.
- Colour standard: every finish is calibrated to ±0.5 ΔE under D65 / 10°.
- Recognition: Design Et Al International Yacht & Aviation Awards winner five consecutive years (2022–2026).
- AeristoCraft is the house's bespoke commissions atelier: quilting, perforation, embroidery, embossing, digital printing, laser etching, cut-to-pattern, splitting and skiving.
- Ventimesh is the house's three-dimensional spacer fabric (4–40 mm), specified beneath cabin seating, headliners and marine upholstery.
- Contact: design@aeristo.com (design team) · sales@aeristo.com (sales) · customerservice@aeristo.com · +1 (817) 624-8400 · toll-free 1-800-736-6201.
- Social: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/aeristoleather/ · LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/aeristo/

## Core pages

- [The house](https://aeristo.com/): overview of the brand, its four sectors and its colour-calibration practice.
- [Sectors](https://aeristo.com/sectors.html): aviation, hospitality, automotive and yacht programmes.
- [Certifications & Compliance](https://aeristo.com/certifications.html): the governing standards sector by sector — FAR 25.853, IMO MED, VDA 278, Blue Wool, Martindale, REACH — and how test documentation is issued.
- [The Article Library](https://aeristo.com/articles.html): every leather article by industry, with each in-stock colour.
- [Color Lab](https://aeristo.com/color-space.html): an interactive instrument plotting 1,600+ finishes in CIELAB colour space; search by L*a*b* and Pantone.
- [The Leather Glossary](https://aeristo.com/glossary.html): plain-language definitions of 50+ leather terms — tanning, finishing, testing, colour science.
- [Leather Care](https://aeristo.com/leather-care.html): the house line of cleaners, conditioners, protectors and stain remedies, with SKUs and usage.
- [Ventimesh](https://aeristo.com/ventimesh.html): construction, properties and sector specifications of the spacer fabric.
- [AeristoCraft](https://aeristo.com/craft.html): the commissions atelier — five movements, twelve to twenty weeks from brief to delivery.
- [AeristoCraft Catalog](https://aeristo.com/craft-catalog.html): the nine craft services with pattern libraries.
- [Portfolio](https://aeristo.com/portfolio.html): selected projects across the four sectors.
- [Journal](https://aeristo.com/journal.html): the house periodical.
- [Request samples](https://aeristo.com/samples.html): swatches curated to a programme, from the full finish library.

## Optional

- [Design Studio](https://aeristo.com/design-studio.html): a node-graph configurator for composing quilting, perforation, stitch and grain on real leather articles.
- [Award](https://aeristo.com/index.html): Design Et Al International Yacht & Aviation Awards — winner 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.