In the book BAD — Or, The Dumbing of America (1991), the literary scholar Paul Fussell said that the term Corinthian leather was chosen “because a reference book suggested that Corinthian connotes rich desirability” and so appeal to modern people who love luxury, as much as did the people of Ancient Corinth. That love of luxury of the Corinthians, Fussell noted, was “why Saint Paul selected them to receive one of his loudest moral blasts. He told them, ‘It is reported that there is fornication among you. . .’. ” Fussell concluded that whoever coined the term Corinthian leather would have to admit that the term itself “is just words” and that the leather in question “never saw Corinth at all.”
I’m just sad that we hunted the Nauga to extinction just for their sweet naugahyde.
My chair is upholstered in real Naugahyde
When they killed that nauga, I sat down and cried– Allen Sherman, Chim Chim Cheree
I get this reference.
I didn’t know what corinthian leather is, but i know where Corinth is.
It turns out it is just regular leather that a marketing company called corinthian, to make it sound better.
I can still smell the interior of my dad’s Fifth Avenue.
