Who Invented The Sofa?

Who Invented The Sofa? Phillip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. He opened up the options for the immortal question of “would you like to take a seat?” One striking figure in the history of the sofa has to be Lord Phillip Stanhope, The Fourth Earl Of Chesterfield (1694 – 1773). Who made the first sofa?