Sofa (canapé à confidents), Claude I Sené, ca. 1775–80

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Sofa (canapé à confidents), Claude I Sené (French, 1724–1792), ca. 1775–80, French, Carved and gilded beechwood upholstered in modern blue dotted silk, 34 × 90 × 24 1/2 in. ( × × cm), Woodwork-Furniture, Claude I Sené (French, 1724–1792), A sofa of this type, with a wide central section and a single outward-facing seat at each end, was called a canapé à confidents, although a design less likely to encourage exchange of confidences would be hard to imagine

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