Deep bottle, emerald, olive or sage: every green Chesterfield chair is handmade in Manchester across velvet, wool, tweed or leather, backed by a ten year guarantee.
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Green is the colour people fall for and then hesitate over, usually because they assume a green chair will be harder to live with than a brown one. It is not, and the reason is that green has been sitting in British interiors for centuries, in libraries and billiard rooms and drawing rooms, long enough to have earned the same neutral status as any shade of leather.
On a Chesterfield it does something to the light that quieter colours simply cannot manage. The buttoning breaks a rich green into dozens of separate facets, each catching light at a slightly different angle, so the chair reads as jewel-like rather than as a single block of colour sitting in the corner.
Here is the part that surprises people, because green is nowhere near a single shade.
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Green sits closer to a neutral than almost anyone expects, largely because it appears in nature alongside every other colour without ever clashing. That is precisely why it works so easily with the wood, brass, stone and greenery most rooms already contain.
The depth matters more than anything here, since a bottle green and a sage will pull a room in entirely opposite directions.
BOTTLE AND FOREST
The deepest and most traditional greens, dark enough to anchor a room the way a brown hide would while carrying considerably more character. These suit period rooms, libraries and studies with darker woodwork particularly beautifully.
EMERALD
The most luminous option of all, particularly in velvet, where the pile turns the colour genuinely jewel like under lamplight. This is the shade to choose when the chair is meant to be the centrepiece of the whole room.
OLIVE AND MOSS
Warmer and more muted, these carry a brown undertone that makes them the easiest greens to live with day to day, especially alongside tan leather elsewhere.
SAGE AND EUCALYPTUS
The softest greens of all, reading almost as a neutral in bright rooms and pairing beautifully with pale walls, natural wood and plenty of greenery.
Velvet is the obvious route and deservedly popular, though green behaves quite differently depending on which cloth carries it, and a chair is small enough to experiment on properly.
Green asks very little from the rest of the room, which is exactly why it has never really gone out of fashion.
Walls that work. Soft white, cream and warm neutrals let a deep green chair become the obvious focal point. Warm plaster and clay tones flatter olive and sage particularly beautifully, while deeper walls in the same family make a green chair read as enveloping rather than merely matched.
Chairs to consider. The Conrad armchair in emerald velvet shows the colour at its most luminous across the buttoning. The Woodstock wing chair gives a deep green real presence through its tall back, and a Chesterfield footstool in tan leather completes the oldest pairing there is.
Walnut, aged brass, stone and plenty of greenery all share the same relaxed depth as green itself, which is what makes a room feel layered rather than simply coordinated. A single brown or tan accent nearby warms the whole arrangement considerably.
Every chair is handmade in Manchester using time honoured techniques, so each seam reflects the care that goes into a piece built to last generations, with the frame beneath carrying our ten year guarantee.
Considerably less than people expect, since green appears in nature alongside every other colour and behaves much like a neutral indoors. Timber, brass and greenery will do most of the decorating work for you.
Emerald and sage lift a dim space most effectively of the range. Bottle and forest greens want good light or they will read as almost black from across the room.
Mid and darker greens disguise everyday marks well, and Sage Tweed hides them better still thanks to the flecked weave. Velvet is comfortably the least forgiving of all the options available here.
Wool and velvet hold their tone essentially as they arrive, provided the chair stays out of strong afternoon sunlight. Green leather deepens gently over the years rather than fading away at all.
Every piece is made to order in Manchester and arrives within six to eight weeks, delivered free across mainland Britain. Our in stock chairs leave a good deal sooner if timing matters.
Yes, and most designs exist as both, so the two can be ordered in the same cloth or hide. Most people prefer a green chair against a plainer sofa rather than both.
