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“It’s the Zelig of sofas,” said Roman Alonso, of Los Angeles design firm Commune. He is talking about the Chesterfield style, which dates from the Victorian era but blends in with most crowds. “It can fit in any interior,” he added, “midcentury modern, Victorian, Spanish colonial.”
As decorating trends skew more layered, eclectic and maximalist, designers are embracing the Chesterfield’s knack for bridging furniture of different eras. As San Francisco designer Nicole Hollis points out, it can form companionable…