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SETTEE , a See also:

long upholstered seat, usually high-backed and with arms at each end. Its ancestors were the See also:settle and the See also:chair—it has alternately resembled the one and the other. It is broadly distinguished from the many varieties of See also:sofa by being intended for sitting rather than reclining—its seat is of the same height as that of a chair; its arms and much of its detail are chair-like. It See also:dates from about the See also:middle of the 17th See also:century, but examples of that See also:early See also:period are exceedingly rare.' There is a famous one at Knole, made about midway between the restoration of See also:Charles II. and the revolution of 1688. By that See also:time the settee had acquired the splendid upholstery and convoluted woodwork which adorned the end of the See also:Stuart period. Early in the 18th century the conjoined See also:double or triple chair See also:form became fashionable. The form was artless, and the See also:absence of upholstery, See also:save on the seat, produced a somewhat angular effect. This type of settee was in essence two chairs with one set of arms. See also:Chippendale made many such pieces, some of them of See also:great beauty. As the See also:taste for carved See also:furniture waned these sturdy settees were replaced by lighter ones, often graceful enough in outline—See also:Hepplewhite and See also:Sheraton were distinguished practitioners—but partaking more and more of the " stuffed-over " See also:character. The See also:desire for comfort and ease gradually drove out the See also:original See also:idea that the settee was intended only for sitting See also:bolt upright. Its See also:modern varieties are many, but in all of them the See also:frame, once so lavishly ornamented, is almost concealed by upholstery.

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