Archive for the ‘Antique Leather Furniture’ Category

The Derby Chesterfield Sofa is what most people think a chesterfield sofa should look like and they would not be wrong. This chesterfield is based upon the classic design and shape of the leather sofa’s that could be seen in many homes around the turn of the previous century.

The Derby is a stiff buttoned base and back and as with all our chesterfield products it is completely hand made, with a solid beech frame, all screwed and dowelled to ensure long lasting quality, in common with all other Distinctive Chesterfield products. With polished mahogany bun feet in three distinctive leather styles and finish, the Derby is available in all our colour range and can be 2, 3 or four seater versions.

Choosing the style of leather finish for your new Distinctive Chesterfield sofa or club chair is entirely a personal matter, it is your Chesterfield and as such the leather finish and colour is how you want it to look.

As satisfied customers will testify, there are three distinctive style of leather finish, antique leather, premium leather and hand dyed leather. Each one of these has its own characteristic and which one you may choose will depend upon where the sofa or club chair is to be put as well as the type of furniture, if any that is currently in the room.

Antique Leather is our standard leather, fine in quality and available in ten different colours. Premium Leather gives that something more for your sofa or club chair and it may well be the one that suits you. These leathers are pre-treated with a special blend of natural finishing products, as a result they give great contrast to any piece of furniture. Hand Dyed Leather is the ultimate in leather finishing and the hand dyed range adds an element of total individuality to your furniture.

Because all our customers are individual their taste in furniture and other matters it follows that our Distinctive Chesterfield sofas, chairs, footstools and office chairs should reflect their particular likes and dislikes, which is precisely the reason that we have brought in our Signature Chesterfield Furniture Range.

All our leather furniture products are hand made by time served craftsmen, not machined on a standard jig, because of this we can literally make a piece of furniture to your own personal requirements, described by many as a true bespoke service.

The signature range of our products is an example of why you are treated as an important individual buyer with your own personal needs. With our Signature Range we can satisfy your individual requirements be it taller, deeper, wider or longer, even upholstered to your specific colour. We will be happy to discuss with you any specific requirements that you may have, just contact us and speak to our Signature Range specialist.

When you buy a new piece of leather furniture you want it to look bright and colourful, but if your room has an antique look and feel and you have period pieces of furniture in the room, your leather chair or sofa could look completely out of character. At Distinctive Chesterfields we have the answer to this dilemma; we will “antique” your chesterfield sofa or club chair for you.

The first thing that we do is to make your piece to meet all our normal requirements to the very highest standards that is found anywhere and then we would begin the process that gives your leather sofa and chair an antique look. The leather is then blacked with a special treatment which makes the whole of the hide appear very dark, in fact almost black; the frame is also treated in this way. When our craftsman is completely satisfied, special treatment follows and the appearance is lightened to give it a genuine antique look. The whole process is completed by sealing it to ensure that the effect is not lost in time. Your new “antique” distinctive chesterfield will blend into its new surroundings comfortably.

When people see the Rutland chesterfield for the first time they describe it as curvy in shape with flowing lines and above so comfortable that you simply do not want to get out of it, why should you? The Rutland is very reminiscent of the era that produced the delightful “Art Deco” period of furnishing and art; we could not disagree with this thought!

Coming with a fully buttoned finish with a stiff sprung frame and extra foaming to give excellent support, yet supreme comfort for the user, the Rutland leather sofa is made for you in two, three and four seater styles, available with your choice of club chair as well as footstools of your choice in all styles of leather and choice of colours.

The question that is most asked by visitors to our showroom is “which is you best or favourite chesterfield?” Well the straight answer to that has to be that we do not have any special favourite. However, we do have a Chesterfield sofa that we consider to be our ‘flagship’ and that would have to be the Warwick leather Chesterfield sofa.

When combined with the low Warwick club chair, we believe that this arrangement has to be amongst the most handsome to be seen anywhere, especially if you have this finished in a hand dyed leather, our particular favourite is hand dyed walnut. Naturally as with all our sofas and club chairs you can choose from three style of leather finish in one of the vast range of colours that can be seen at our web pages, or from a colour swatch which we will gladly send to you upon request.

This one really is a distinctive chesterfield and although we can say that we are proud of all the chesterfield sofas that are hand crafted in our Yorkshire workshops, the Lincoln is one that we and a lot of our customers have taken to.

This chesterfield is one of our originals and only when you closely inspect this can you appreciate the beauty of the design The Lincoln leather sofa is elegant, naturally custom made by our time served furniture craftsmen and set upon a selected heavy hardwood frame this icon is the largest standard chesterfield or club chair in our range. Featuring a deep buttoned seat and heavy springing, with a high stance set upon mahogany feet, we think you will agree that the Lincoln is a thing of beauty.

Available as a 2, 3 or 4 seat sofa with accompanying club chair and footstool, the Lincoln is handsome in any colour but hand dyed mahogany leather sets this off to its best advantage.

The antique leather club chair has never really gone out of fashion, original club chairs synonymous with gentlemen’s clubs in Westminster have been much sought after over the years. Techniques developed in England and practiced with skill and care by the craftsmen and leather workers at Distinctive Chesterfields mean that the antique club chair in a variety of styles in available to all.

Employing their skills, craftsmen manufacture the club or wing chair in the style of your choice and then begin the process of ‘antiquing’ this. Firstly it is blacked with a special treatment which makes the whole of the hide appear very dark, in fact almost black and then the hide is applied to the piece of furniture. The club chair leather is rubbed lightly by a professional leather worker with a special solution to reveal the lighter colour below, replicating the look of a true antique chair.

You will never really know how many uses a footstool can be put to until you have bought your very first from the collection at the Distinctive Chesterfield website. Naturally you will have decided to buy a footstool so that you can put your feet up after a hard day at work or coping with the children, this is of course the primary object of the footstool.

Look into any sitting room and you will see a footstool being used for the magazine, TV programmes, and newspapers or as a useful place to rest ones crossword whilst the brain re-engages! Children just love to sit on them and they make a useful addition in any bedroom for dressing or just leaving your clothes overnight. The Queen Anne standard footstool is one of the ranges from Distinctive Chesterfields and is perhaps the one that will fit into any setting. With this style you can choose from the full range of leather styles and colours and versatility is assured.

It is not necessary to trawl around sale rooms looking for antique leather furniture, which when found may need a lot of restoration to make it looking at its best and become suitable for use as a club chair or a chesterfield sofa.

Using traditional methods of construction by time served leather workers and woodworking craftsmen, Distinctive Chesterfields can bring you that much envied chair or sofa which is guaranteed to last a lifetime or more and look good as well as truly functional.

In the Yorkshire workshops of Distinctive Chesterfields, the all important frame of the chair or sofa is constructed from sustainable hardwoods all assembled by screwing the dowelled components together, no machine nailing is employed. The leather finish is applied by hand and three styles of leather is available from which you can choose with a range of colour that will suit even the most discerning of customer.