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We are
primarily a higher end consignment
store dealing in
furniture, accessories, artwork, home decor, or just
anything for your home. Any questions about
consignment or inventory please call! |
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Thomasville Furniture,
Ethan Allen,
Henredon Furniture,
Drexel Furniture, and
John Widdicomb to mention a few brand furniture
names. |
A couch is an upholstered item of
furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one
person and typically has an armrest on either side.
Couches are usually to be found in the living room,
den or the lounge. They are covered in a variety of
textiles or in leather.
The most common types of couches are the loveseat (or
British two-seater), the settee (2.5 seats), and the
sofa (3 seats). A sectional sofa (often just referred
to as a "sectional") is formed from multiple sections
(typically 2 to 4) and usually includes at least two
pieces that join at an angle of 90 degrees or slightly
greater.
Other couch variants include the divan, the fainting
couch (backless or partial-backed), the chaise longue
(long with one armrest), the canapé (an ornamental
3-seater), and the ottoman (generally considered a
footstool). To conserve space, some sofas double as
beds (sofa-bed, daybed, or futon). There are also
couches known by generalized trademarked names, such
as a davenport or chesterfield (named for the Earl of
Chesterfield). Lofabed (low-fa-bed) a combination of a
davenport base and futon mattress resulting in a more
comfortable, practical, and economical alternative to
the traditional sofa-bed.
A three-piece suite is composed of three couch pieces
(generally, a two- or three-seater and two armchairs).
History
Until the 20th century a couch referred to a long
upholstered seat with one end inclined, high enough to
provide a back and head-rest. "Couch" which in the
Late Middle Ages had signified bedding (from the
French se coucher, or "to lie down") was
interchangeable with "daybed" through the 17th
century. (Gloag, "couch"). Well into the 19th century
a couch was particularly a seat for a lady; a fainting
couch (a modern term) has a back and a single
scrolling upholstered end. A récamier was a late
nineteenth-century trade term for a similar
single-ended couch, such as the one made famous in
David's portrait of Mme Récamier.
The word couch is scarcely used in the United Kingdom,
where sofa is far more commonly used. The sopha or
sofa had a separate origin. "Sopha" made its entry in
written English in 1717 (OED); divan preceded it
(1702). Sofa was originally an Arabic word for the
raised section of floor, furnished with rugs and
cushions, set apart for a council (see Diwan) thus
also for especially esteemed guests. Designs for "sophas"
in Thomas Chippendale's Director (1754, 1762) all have
solidly upholstered arms with padded elbow rests,
cushioned seats and upholstered backs, but show their
carved wood framing.
Further back in ancient Roman society, the couch was
found in the dining room (known as the triclinium).
Three couches would be arranged around a low table and
the men would recline while eating (although the women
sat in normal chairs).
Originally it was an elitist piece of furniture and it
was not until industrialization that the upholstered
couch became an indispensable item of furniture in
middle and lower class households. Throughout its
history it has often been an object of derision,
considered a variety of things from decadent to
conformist.
Since 19th Century the couch has become associated
with Freudian psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud originally
used the couch as a tool to aid his hypnosis of the
patient. However when he moved on from hypnosis to
stream-of-consciousness discourse as his dominant mode
of analysis with the development of the interpretation
of dreams, he still held on to the couch. He justified
this with the need to limit the transference between
psychoanalyst and analysand. Thus, the couch proved
particularly useful because it limits the visibility
of the analyst.
Today the couch is invariably linked to both domestic
family life and television culture. Indeed, a slogan
used by IKEA home furnishings was "Life happens on the
sofa." It is often positioned in relation to the
television set in a living room and for napping. It
has spawned social phenomena such as the couch potato,
a person who spends a lot of time watching the
television. The couch has also become the central prop
for many TV sitcoms and soap operas. This symbiosis,
through which the couch has shifted from the private
to the public sphere, has been satirically depicted in
popular culture, in television series such as
Married... with Children, The Simpsons, The Big Comfy
Couch, Friends, The Royal Family and Beavis and
Butt-head.
Developing
Sofa can be traced back to ancient Egypt of around
2000 BC, but true sofa was invented in the end of the
16th to the early 17th century.
At that time, horse hair, bird feather, plant villi
such as natural flexible materials were made as the
filler, with the outside velvet, embroidery, or other
fabrics masked, to form a soft sofa surface.
At that time in Europe, the most popular Farthingle
chair is one of the earliest sofa chair.
1828, spring started to be one material in sofa.
1904, Morris invented Pocket Spring, he grouped Pocket
Spring into sofa wooden framework to make sofa. it was
originator of modern spring sofa.
in the 1920s, Dunlop had created a new pad
technology–rubber foam. Filling the gas in the natural
rubber latex, forming into the mold and trying, at
last he got a flexible filler - rubber foam. The
application of foam rubber greatly simplified the
process of filling masked, also had same appearance
and quality.
In the 1960s, people developed inflatable and water
cushion sofa success, which indicates the sofa
manufacturing technology was mature. |
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