Chaise longue

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Chaise longue of Venus Victrix (1800), marble, Puchkin Museum, Moscow

The chaise longue ( French: chaise longue "long chair") has been the name for a low, upholstered combined piece of furniture for one person to sit and lie on since the second half of the 19th century . It is strongly reminiscent of the ancient triclinium . The technical term is modern chaise longue . Characteristics of days rest or bed that the short nap , occasionally also serves as a spare bed, an increased head end and a single cover, which, apart from the are supports , all construction parts covered.

Due to their low seating comfort of the now rare chaise lounge is now the bed preferred. This is suitable for both lying down and sitting comfortably and thus combines the function of the chaise longue with that of the sofa .

history

18th century broken two-part chaise longue

The name chaise longue , first used in France at the beginning of the 18th century , indicates its original function as seating furniture . In contrast to the couch and the sofa , this piece of furniture did not emerge from the bench or day bed, but from an armchair extended by a tabouret . The two elements of this particular during the period of Louis XV and Louis XVI - style in the years 1745-1780 popular broken , even in France duchesse brisée -called two-piece chaise merged gradually into a single ( unbroken ) piece of furniture from which both the Récamière and the so-called modern chaise longue developed.

terminology

The modern use of the originally French term ottoman overlaps with that of the word chaise longue.

In Baden and Swabian dialect which have taken many words from the French language, which is of chaiselongue derived word Schesslo commonly used for upholstered seating furniture.

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Web links

Commons : Chaise Longue  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: chaise longue  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Footnotes

  1. Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon : Mémoires , Volume VII, Chapter III, 1709 online