The chaise longue, the Chesterfield, together with the Knole unquestionably are three conventional couches which, irrespective of centuries of creativity since their creation, have become de rigeur with couch aficionados and the spark of inspiration for a number of upgraded versions. You hadn’t encountered the Knole? It takes its name from an exquisite couch found [...]

Which settee has to be the United Kingdom’s foremost piece of furniture? Where could you see it?
Check in North London, at the legendary Freud Museum. Famously, this was in Freud’s London lodgings, where he developed his theories. Granted prominence is his study, exactly as it was while he used it, and located in the study [...]

Chaises longues and sofas feature conspicuously in artwork, including the Canova’s Pauline Borghese as Venus, Velazquez’ Rokeby Venus as well as, in the dim and distant past, Etruscan sarcophagi from the Cerveteri necropolis.
Nevertheless, as Salvador Dali’s “Mae West’s Lips” established, the settee could also be a work of art in its own way. With Mae [...]