Regency Household: A French Cottage Bed

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PLATE 7 FASHIONABLE FURNITURE FRENCH COTTAGE BED THE interchange of feeling between this country and France as it relates to matters of taste has not been wholly suspended during the long and awful conflicts which have so greatly abridged the intercourse of the two nations and as usual the taste of both has been improved we have benefited by the fine fancy of the French artists as they have not neglected to foster the results of British judgment in our own productions From the peculiarities of our taste the French have long adopted the cottage ornée and the English garden but in the furniture of both they have preserved much of their own style for custom and habit do not readily submit even to the allurements of fashion The furniture plate of the present month represents a French cottage bed as found in one of their country retreats the drapery forms a tent like canopy and is suspended by a fasces projecting from the side of the room the furniture is of a lilac silk with deep yellow linings the bed frame is painted in imitation of rosewood the chair is of the same finishing and the linings of it correspond with the bed draperies 120

The plate and description appeared in the February 1815 issue of Ackermann’s Repository.

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