Regency Household: A French Sofa

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PLATE 17 FASHIONABLE FURNITURE FRENCH SOFA THE character of simplicity which belongs to this piece of furniture and the materials of which it is composed render it suitable for the library or morning room The outline of the seat and back are described by equal radii and are intersected by small circles that combine with them and form a long elipse or oval the width of the seat however separating the line of the back from the front an intricacy is produced which gives the sofa a peculiarly agreeable effect and by this arrangement the back almost seems to be reflected in water and indeed in furniture a certain degree of uniformity is necessary to its composition both on account of its being to assimilate with architecture which is severe in this particular and because a portion of this severity is essential to the character of beauty dignity and greatness The frame may be composed of any of the variegated woods and the seat aud back of morocco it being so in the original A candelabrum or reading lamp and a receptacle for flowers form a portion of this plate

The design and description for this french sofa appeared in Ackermann’s Repository April 1815 edition.

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