Manufacturing in Manchester, England since 1951.
Celebrating 10 years online
Here at The Chesterfield Company, every single one of our leather Chesterfield sofas are lovingly handcrafted here at our factory in Manchester using techniques that have been handed down through generations of expert upholstery makers. All our sofas are made to order and you can choose one of our existing designs created by our in-house […]
There are plenty of furniture trade shows taking place in 2015 – the full calendar is too packed to list here, so we’ve picked out some of the main furniture exhibitions to look out for during the coming seasons. Spring Fair International Europe’s biggest home and gift trade fair hits the NEC Birmingham on February […]
Sometimes snobby, sometimes informative, always influential – interior design style bible Elle Décor’s select poll of international designers’ expectations for 2015 colour trends in interiors is out. But how do you match something as fleeting as a ‘trend’ with your favourite furniture and art pieces? Continually redecorating and reupholstering is unrealistic, costly and time consuming […]
With the growth of online shopping enabled by smartphones and tablets, people increasingly use their mobile devices to purchase not just smaller items, but also cars and houses (and leather sofas, of course). You all saw the media fuelled madness of desperate discount shoppers battling for bargain tellies on ‘Black Friday’ – but how many […]
Like thousands of discerning homeowners worldwide, you’ve chosen your perfect chesterfield Sofa and it looks great in your room. Natural distressing and aging can add to the visual appeal of a chesterfield sofa over time but it’s important to protect against unsightly cracking, drying and stains. Cleaning a Leather Chesterfield Sofa Leather is […]
Our leather Chesterfield sofas epitomise us here at The Chesterfield Company. We take great pride in handcrafting every single piece of furniture with quality solid beech or birch hardwood frames, overlaid with our exclusive and luxurious leathers. We use 3 leather hides for each of our leather Chesterfield sofas which are European in origin and […]
Something old, something new… if you can’t decide on a single era for your interiors, there’s nothing wrong with mixing and matching vintage and modern furniture, if you do it right. And there are plenty of ways to make old and new items work well alongside one another, so here are five of the best […]
Conservatories have only relatively recently become something that a large number of households have access to – before that they were the preserve of the relatively wealthy, and while that is still true to a certain extent, more and more of us are able to afford to have one built, or to buy a home […]
In the stifling heat of the summer months, your bedroom can be a cool and calming oasis in which you can escape for an hour or two during the evening. But you might reasonably not want to spend those hours in bed, especially if the lingering heat of the day means you do not want […]
Where did Chesterfield sofas first appear? Northerners might hope to claim them as hailing from Chesterfield in Derbyshire, but sadly this is not the case. Quite the opposite in fact, as their invention is generally credited to Lord Philip Stanhope, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield, not to be confused with the several other Philip Stanhopes […]
