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| Club Chair |
| The word "club" in club
chair harks back to the gentlemen's clubs in nineteenth century England
where a gentleman could go to get away from his household (including
womenfolk). Once there, he would sink into a well-upholstered leather chair
and relax with a drink and perhaps a cigar. The names of the fashionable
London streets full of such clubs are still used to name classic club
chairs : St. James, Piccadilly and so on. Many Victorian leather club chairs were button-backed, companion pieces to Chesterfield sofas (also a nineteenth century design). A dictionary definition of a club chair is "A heavily upholstered easy chair with arms and a low back". Although any fabric can be used to upholster them, leather, being the quintessential gentleman's furnishing material, has been consistently popular. |
| Art Deco Club Chair |
| Art deco club chairs became
popular and are particularly associated with France, although in the French
tradition, these may be more formal and less bouncy than chairs from Britain
or the USA. In the 1950s the Eames chair was introduced as a fresh American interpretation of the traditional English club chair. Nowadays the traditional leather club chair is very popular. |
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