This is a question we are often asked at Distinctive Chesterfields – the leather chesterfield sofa company

The answer lies in History, over a hundred years ago. In Victorian times, society was very different. The way we intgrated as man and woman, and the social standings of the classes, was totally different. Due to the rise and rise or the City Gent, there was an increasingly popular wave of new ‘clubs’ whose membership was entirely male, who would provide a civilised, woman free environment for this upper crust of society to socialise in.

They would be fitted out in a style similar to that of a grand study or smoking room, and would be equipped with snall nests of tables and chairs.

The Chairs were always of low, level backed construction, usually fully buttoned or tufted in the style of a chesterfield sofa. Always covered in a dark leather – most commonly green, brown, or red, these chairs became known as ‘club chairs‘ – a term which stuck and is used still today

Jul 24 2008