About this object

The Divan Sahib represents the pinnacle of Anglo-Indian club furniture tradition, where Victorian-Edwardian gentleman's library aesthetics meet Jodhpur's master upholstery craft. Built in the same supply chain that produces for international luxury hotels, this chaise longue embodies the refined reading room culture of India's historic private clubs — spaces where leather deepens with use and craft is measured in decades, not seasons. The piece continues a three-generation tradition of Jodhpur craftsmen supplying India's most distinguished institutions. Every surface of this Chesterfield chaise is upholstered in dark cognac top-grain leather and hand-tufted with deep diamond buttoning across compound-curved planes — a technical challenge requiring geometry solved through practiced hands rather than calculation. The solid Sheesham frame is ebonised to a deep finish, with turned legs fitted with brass castor caps for floor protection. Antique brass nail-head trim runs the full perimeter at hand-set intervals, structurally locking leather to frame at stress points. The scrolled raised end features a deep tufted bolster roll, while the open foot end curves gracefully with an elegant apron. This is furniture for rooms that take reading seriously — Delhi studies lined with books, Calcutta reading rooms with botanical wallpaper, Bombay flats where one wall is entirely library. The dark cognac leather is selected not for immediate beauty but for its ability to age into something richer than it began, developing the tobacco-dark patina seen in century-old club furniture. Internationally, equivalent Chesterfield chaise longues from English bespoke houses command four to six times this price. The craft standard is identical; the margin is not.