Saxon Chesterfield Lyons: Famous Chesterfield Sofas

Although chesterfield sofas enjoy a reputation for class and sophistication, they are relatively hard to find in the media.

Perhaps the most famous chesterfield sofa is the one supposedly used by Sigmund Freud. Many experts believe that Freud used a chesterfield sofa to sit his patients down during hypnotherapy sessions. During the nineteenth century the chesterfield sofa became synonymous with psychiatry and hypnosis, and became a regular fixture in waiting rooms and treatment rooms of all kinds of doctors and therapists. There are also many different pieces of art, usually depicting nudes, sprawled across a chesterfield sofa, painted to fit in with the Freud reference.

In the book ‘A hitchhikers guide to the galaxy’, the main character Arthur Dent and his acquaintance Ford use a time travelling chesterfield sofa, that drops them off in various locations throughout the space – time continuum. This sofa appears in part of the books, and radio series, although not in all versions.

In one famous scene, Arthur and Ford become sofas and are matching white and brown leather chesterfield sofas that speak using their cushions as mouths. Each is adorned with two small cushions, in the colours that the character was wearing, which give the sofa the shape of a face.

Many people believe that the television series ‘Friends’ features a chesterfield sofa, however this is a myth and the sofa in central perk is a high backed sofa, whilst the ones in Monica’s apartment are also high backed. » Saxon Chesterfield Lyons: Famous Chesterfield Sofas