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A couch, also known as a sofa, settee, chesterfield, or davenport, is a cushioned item of furniture that can seat multiple people. It is commonly found in the form of a bench with upholstered armrests and is often fitted with springs and tailored cushion and pillows. [1] [2] Although a couch is used primarily for seating, it may be used for ...
This Rococo Revival canapé delivered to the Vermont State House in 1859 would have been called a settee.. A canapé is a piece of furniture similar to a couch.The word is typically meant to describe an elegant couch made out of elaborately carved wood with wooden legs, an upholstered back, armrests, and a single long seat (instead of separate cushions) that typically seats three, that emerged ...
Orbiter, a brand of camera seat used by camera operators that swivels at a low working height. ON Chair, has a patented three-dimensional sitting arrangement; incorporates lateral movement to standard office chair height and reclining positions; Ottoman, a thick cushion used as a seat or a low stool, or as a rest for the feet of a seated person
An expandable table with chairs. This is a list of furniture types.Furniture can be free-standing or built-in to a building. [1] They typically include pieces such as chairs, tables, storage units, and desks.
The Campeche (or butaca, butaque as it is more commonly known in Spanish) is a reclining, non-folding, sling-seat chair with a distinctive side-placed curule base. In North America, they are named for the Campeche region of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula , and were popular in the Americas during the early nineteenth century.
The simplest form of seat is the chair, [72] which is a piece of furniture designed to allow a single person to sit down, which has a back and legs, as well as a platform for sitting. [73] Chairs often feature cushions made from various fabrics.
A divan (Turkish divan, Hindi deevaan originally from Kurdish [1] devan) is a piece of couch-like sitting furniture or, in some regions, a box-spring-based bed. Primarily, in the Middle East (especially the Ottoman Empire ), a divan was a long seat formed of a mattress laid against the side of the room, upon the floor, or a raised structure or ...
A window seat. A window seat is a miniature sofa without a back, intended to fill the recess of a window. [1] In the latter part of the 18th century, when tall narrow sash windows were almost universal, the window seat was in high favor, and was no doubt in keeping with the formalism of Georgian interiors. It differed much in decorative detail ...