Tag: Know Your Furniture
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Know Your Furniture: Drafting Chairs
If you are not familiar with the concept of drafting and drafting chairs, seeing one for the first time could prompt you to wonder if the designers were just a wee-bit distracted when they rolled out this particular model. They truly do seem like a chair design gone wrong. The truth is however, drafting chairs […]
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Know Your Furniture: The Rolltop Desk
Though perhaps not as obscure as some of the other furniture pieces discussed in this series, I chose the rolltop desk for today’s Know Your Furniture segment because to me, the ingenuity of the design was never given the full appreciation or exposure it deserved. Practical, clever and way ahead of it’s time, the rolltop was […]
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Know Your Furniture: Tuffet, Pouffe and Hassock
I know it’s fairly unlikely that you will come across these admittedly obscure furniture terms at any point in your furniture experience, and if your in the kind of business were you will, chances are you already know the definitions of these terms. Anyhow, we’ll give it a shot in the off-chance that this post […]
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Know Your Furniture: History of the Hammock
For this latest installment of the Know Your Furniture series, I thought we might take a little journey back in time and see if we can’t possibly track down the origin and outline a brief history of a particular furniture piece that seems to have been around forever. The Hammock. No doubt we are all […]
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Know Your Furniture: The Kneeling Chair
In this Know Your Furniture post, we will take a quick look at one of the more curious and unorthodox furniture pieces you are ever likely to see. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Kneeling chair. Description A kneeling chair is a type of chair for sitting in a position with the thighs dropped to an […]
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Know Your Furniture: Sofa, Loveseat, Divan, or Canapé
In this segment of the Know Your Furniture series, brought to you by Madison Seating, we shall endeavor to explore the different types of couches and sofa’s as well as the differences between them. A couch or sofa is a piece of furniture for seating two or more persons in the form of a bench, […]
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Know Your Furniture: Fauteuil
Pronounced “foe TUR”, a fauteuil is a style of open-arm chair with a primarily exposed wooden frame originating in France in the late 17th century. A fauteuil is made of wood, and frequently with carved relief ornament. It is typically upholstered on the seat, the seat back and on the arms (manchettes). Some fauteuils […]
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Know Your Furniture: Hutch
Etymology A hutch is an American English word usually used to describe a set of shelves or cabinets placed on top of a lower unit with a counter and either drawers or cabinets. Hutches are often seen in the form of desks, dining room or kitchen furniture. Frequently referred to by furniture aficionados as […]
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Know Your Furniture: Dresser, Armoire or Chest of Drawers…?
In this, the second installment of Madison Seating’s “Know Your Furniture” series, I would like to take a moment to discuss some of the complex intricacies of a certain widely used but little understood piece of bedroom furniture, the Dresser. Or is it the Armoire? Or… wait… hold on a second, maybe it’s a Chest […]
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Know Your Furniture: The Chaise Longue
Good morning to you all, This new series entitled “Know Your Furniture”, is intended in part to remedy a particular injustice in the furniture world. We’ve all been there, standing around a kitchen or living room, cocktails in hand listening to a super-snobbish friend or neighbor describe in excruciating detail the profound nature and […]