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Wednesday Wish: Leather Chesterfield

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

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view of our sitting room showing our now flood dameged leather sofa

We’ve blogged a couple of times in the past fortnight about our flood. One of the water damaged casualties was our leather sofa. The current seating arrangements in our sitting room are a bit sparse, consisting of the circular wicker chair pictured and a vintage Ercol rocking chair we bought at auction recently.

The building work hasn’t even started yet, so we’re weeks away from being able to buy new things for the house – but we’re already dreaming of lying on a comfy sofa in front of the fire or TV.

By way of  a replacement, we’ve got two options in mind. We might go for a Danish mid century modern style sofa similar in look to the one we’ve lost – long & low with simple lines.

Heaton Leather Chesterfield sofa from the Chesterfield Company, Manchester
3-seater Heaton Leather Chesterfield, from £810.00 – The Chesterfield Company

We also love antique leather Chesterfields, particularly beautifully aged ones with that rich chestnut colour. These are hard to find and can be very expensive. We’ve just been checking out some of the new models on offer. The one above would be welcome – we’ll just have to age it ourselves!!

Wednesday Wish: 27 July 2011

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

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Georgian leather wing back armchair sold at Wilkinson's Auctioneers, Doncaster

We’ve been looking for an antique Chesterfield armchair for ages. This beautiful Georgian leather wing back that recently came up for sale at Wilkinson’s Auctioneers ticked all the boxes.

It sold for £1,150.00 (before fees & tax) – not cheap, but we’ve had twinges of regret ever since… our search continues!