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Window seat (furniture)

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It stood as high from the floor as a chair; the two ends were identical, with a roll-over curve, more or less pronounced. The seats and ends were usually upholstered in rich fabrics, which often remained intact. The legs followed the fashion in chairs and were square, tapered, or, somewhat later,
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without a back, intended to fill the recess of a window. In the latter part of the 18th century, when tall narrow
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were almost universal, the window seat was in high favor, and was no doubt in keeping with the formalism of
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designed many graceful window seats, but all the cabinet-makers of the period produced them.
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Steen, Bill; Steen, Athena Swentzell; Bingham, Wayne J. (2005), "Window seats",
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interiors. It differed much in decorative detail but little in form.
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Window seat (type of sofa)

sofa
sash windows
Georgian
Hepplewhite
brothers Adam
ISBN
978-1-58685-515-4


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Chisholm, Hugh
Window Seat
Encyclopædia Britannica
Categories
Furniture
Seats
Couches

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