British Craftsmanship at it's best dating back to the early 17th century.
The Chesterfield Suite is still one of the worlds most sought after items of furniture, be it for a living room, office, study, hotel or bar and many more places the chesterfield sofa brings class and style along with elegance and distinction to any where it is placed.
Although there are people all over the world trying to re-create this British master piece I have found that only the British made Chesterfield is still as worthy, wonderfully crafted and designed as they were back in the early 17th Century. Alltypesofchesterfields is a prime example of the hand-crafted Chesterfield, here they use as many age old techniques as possible to create the look and distinctive feel of the traditional chesterfield suite. For over 40 years there expert craftsmen and women have been producing beautiful UK hand-crafted chesterfield furniture using age old techniques and the finest UK leathers and materials of the highest standard and quality available. Although most of the materials used in producing chesterfield furniture has changed over the years quality has remained, which in turn the demand and envy to own a Chesterfield sofa or chair has risen.
Way back in the 17th century owning a piece of Chesterfield furniture was a huge statement to others of how wealthy you were as leather was scarce and valued like gold is today, which is why only the upper class an royality could afford to live in style and luxury and afford to own and grace there homes and castles with this unique and elegant piece of british heritage furniture. horse hair was often used to help pad out the poor quality of foams that were available in those days and the reason behind this was it would never alter in shape or density, over the years it was found that the horse hair was extremley flamable so to try and resovle this they began to use a substitute to this called hessien which was the same in appearance and density but more sustainable and durable, even though it was more retardent to flame over the years foam was becoming more and more vast with its durabilty getting better. Eventually they bagan to realise that they could create the same look and feel that they had always had by using foam and that it was much more flame retardent than both horse hair and hessien. The way that the Chesterfield suite was upholstered in those days were a lot more pain staking and took many days to complete as they did not have staple guns and compressed air they had to use tiny tacks to hold down the leather which had to be put in using a small taking hammer and on average there were often over 2000 of these tacks used on a chesterfield chair alone all put in by hand.
The Chesterfield sofa today.
Although it has not changed much in appearance the chesterfield has grown in popularity immensley and over time has become more affordable and as a result become more wide spread. The technique and skill in producing the Chesterfield has not really changed but has advanced by ways of the tools used to create the same graceful look and feel. The new advanced tools allow the artitian who upholsters the sofa to hand-craft a chesterfield chair alot quicker than back in the early days.
Modern day houses and apartments.
Mostly Chesterfields were found in castles and stately homes that only the rich lived but as time has progressed and the chesterfield suite has become more affordable the colour schemes and furniture has changed to accomodate the more modern home or appartment people have choosen mordern colours such as a white chesterfield sofa as opposed to the classic Antique oxblood Chesterfield sofa to accomodatse there stylish homes. Some trendy bars and clubs have even taken to a funky orange Chesterfield sofa. This just goes to show how things have progressed and changed yet the love for a chesterfield suite has grown.
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