MANCHESTER SOFA

Manchester is the widest sofa we make: 300 cm across, 105 cm deep, hand-tufted on the back and on the arms, with the rolled arms and deep-buttoned leather of a full Chesterfield. Shown in oxblood and in black. It is not a sofa you fit into a room — it is a sofa a room is built around.

Three metres

At 300 cm Manchester needs a wall of four metres to look right, and a doorway and stair it can physically pass. We ask for the access route before accepting an order on this width, because a 300 cm one-piece frame cannot be angled through a tight landing. If the route will not take it, we draw the same design at a width that will, or build it in two joining units.

Tufting on the arms as well

Most Chesterfields are buttoned on the back only. Here the arms are tufted too, which means the diamonds have to continue around a curve and still line up with the back — the hardest tufting work there is, and the reason this model is hand-finished from start to end. Studs along the arm edge are an option and change the character considerably.

The 139 cm chair

The single seat is 139 cm wide. That is not an armchair; it is a two-person seat in the proportions of a chair, and in a large room it works better opposite the three-seater than a conventional 100 cm chair would.

Leather

Solid hardwood frame. Genuine leather in any of seventy-six shades across twelve families, or fabric; colour, finish, stud detail and cushion fill are all specified at the time of order. COM projects accepted.

Sizes

Three widths, listed above. All adjustable — and on this model, often reduced rather than increased.

Where it belongs

A club, a hotel lobby, a cigar room, a large panelled study. Anywhere the sofa is meant to be the architecture.