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...
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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 bo
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