Archive for the ‘Antique Leather Furniture’ Category

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.