Create a cozy retreat with a handcrafted snuggle chair. Featuring classic Chesterfield details, premium upholstery, and generous seating, each piece brings comfort, character, and lasting quality to your home.
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There is a particular way people sit when they are properly comfortable, which involves folding both legs underneath themselves and abandoning any pretense of good posture. A standard armchair makes that awkward and a full sofa makes it faintly ridiculous, since there is always an empty seat beside you asking to be filled by somebody else.
The snuggle chair exists precisely for that gap between the two and it fills it beautifully. At roughly a seat and a half wide it gives you room to curl up sideways with a book and a blanket, while still reading as a chair rather than a small sofa that has wandered into the wrong corner.
Here is the part that surprises people, because a seat and a half turns out to be one of those widths that works surprisingly hard.
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Most people buy one because a two seater sofa felt like too much furniture for the space and a single armchair felt like slightly too little. That middle ground turns out to be where a great deal of actual living happens, particularly in apartments and smaller sitting rooms.
Choosing is less about the prettiest photograph and more about how you actually intend to sit, since a chair for reading and a chair for lounging are not quite the same piece.
THE CLASSIC SNUGGLE
Low rolled arms and a deeply buttoned back give you the Chesterfield armchair silhouette at a wider width, which is the version most people picture. It is the natural companion to a matching sofa, since both pieces can be ordered in the same hide.
THE WINGED VERSION
A taller back and enclosed sides bring the wingback chair shape into snuggle proportions, which creates real enclosure and makes the seat feel like a room within a room.
BUTTON SEAT OR CUHION SEAT
A buttoned seat keeps the tufting running unbroken for the strictest traditional look, while a cushion seat gives you the softer, more forgiving seat that suits long evenings.
ONE OF A KIND PANELS
Several patchwork armchair designs are built at this width and their panel arrangements are never repeated, so the chair you order is genuinely the only one.
A leather snuggle chair is the first thing most people picture and understandably so, since a good hide only becomes more beautiful as its patina develops around the buttoning. The extra width gives whatever you choose more room to be seen, which is worth remembering when a bolder cloth tempts you.
Velvet in emerald, navy, blush and deep mustard, carrying an otherwise neutral room single handed.
Wool and herringbone in warmer, softer tones for country houses and interiors where leather feels a little formal.
Tweed for a countryside feeling that suits period rooms, stone fireplaces and firelight particularly well.
Patchwork panels stitched one by one from our finest cloths, so no two chairs ever match exactly. Antique and heritage leathers arriving with the worn character a new hide takes years to earn.
A snuggle chair works hardest when everything around it stays quiet, which is exactly why it suits simpler rooms.
Walls that work
Soft white and warm neutrals, letting the chair become the obvious focal point of the room. Deep forest green or ink blue behind a tan hide, one of the loveliest pairings there is. Warm plaster and clay tones, flattering both the buttoning and the leg finish.
Textures that flatter
A good throw and one or two cushions, since this is a chair people genuinely burrow into. A floor lamp angled over one shoulder, which turns the whole corner into a reading spot. A Chesterfield ottoman, which completes the lounging position and doubles as extra seating.
The extra width reads larger in a room than it does on a screen, so measuring properly matters more here than with a single seat.
Every chair is handmade in Britain using time honored techniques, so each seam reflects the care that goes into a piece meant to last generations and every hardwood frame carries our lifetime guarantee.
A 1.5 seater snuggle chair sits between an armchair and a sofa, giving one person plenty of room to stretch out or two people a cozy place to sit together without taking up the space of a full sofa.
Yes. The wider seat is designed to comfortably accommodate one person with plenty of room to relax or two people sitting close together.
Yes. Snuggle chairs can be customized with your choice of upholstery and color, allowing you to create a piece that suits your interior.
Absolutely. Its larger proportions give it more presence than a standard armchair, making it effective as a statement piece while still providing a practical place to sit.
It occupies noticeably less floor space than a two seater sofa while offering a far more comfortable single sitting position.
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