Chesterfield (seating)
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The Chesterfield seating is a group of seats , originally in England were made. With them, the leather is laid in folds in a characteristically knotted diamond pattern and then attached to the frame with leather buttons ("capitulation"). Two and three- seater sofas and armchairs are common . Chaise longues are uncommon. The term Chesterfield described any type of sofa in the United Kingdom of Great Britain in the 1900s and is now described with the typical characteristic style. It is neither a protected term, nor a specific manufacturer, nor a protected manufacturing process.
history
According to the prevailing opinion, the name Chesterfield furniture goes back to the 4th Earl of Chesterfield , Philip Dormer Stanhope . Around 1770 he commissioned the well-known English furniture maker Robert Adam to design a sofa that offers an upright seat and yet great comfort.
Manufacturing
The Chesterfield furniture originally comes from England and was handcrafted . First a wooden frame is built, traditionally made of beech wood . The seat is provided with a suspension, then the shape of the sofa is padded. The leather is applied to the upholstery, laid in the classic Chesterfield folds and then tufted with symmetrically arranged leather buttons.
to form
In addition to the classic Chesterfield furniture with loose seat cushions, there is the special form of the Victorian Chesterfield sofa . In this case, the seat cushion is made as part of the upholstery and firmly connected to the frame. In addition to Chesterfield leather furniture, Chesterfield-style seating furniture has also been made from various fabrics since around 1930.
literature
- Holger Lipps: English furniture . Heyne, Munich 1973.
- Fritz Winzer: DuMont's lexicon of furniture science: artists, styles, terms . DuMont, Cologne 1999.