Here at Distinctive Chesterfields, we are often asked ‘what is a club chair?’

The answer is often hard because club chairs are different things to different people. For example, if you asked an officer in the RAF what a club chair was, he would probably describe a leather chesterfield low chair. The reason for this? because most if not all officers messes in the armed forces have these leather chairs in them.

Yet ask the owner of a swanky town centre bar and he may well describe something completly different.

To answer this question properly, we must first answer another question- Where did the name club chair come from?

So if you have followed the link above, and understand where then term club chair has come from, then you can agree that the the original club chairs were fully buttoned chesterfield chairs, with level arms and back and so shaped to aide the waitress in seeing when their customer was in need of topping up.

An illustration of a typical leather chesterfield club chair.

Jul 24 2008