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  Knole Settee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The original Knole Settee, a type of padded and upholstered lounge chair to seat two or three people was made between 1610 - 1620 for the great house of Knole in Kent.
The actual upholstering on the original was in red velvet with red fringing, though later forms could be upholstered in any of several different materials.
It became the prototype for a style that became known as the Knole settee.
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 Jacobean furniture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The furniture of another room at Knole is said to have been presented by King James to the first Earl of Middlesex, who had married into the Dorset family.
It seems from the Knole furniture, and a comparison of the designs with those of some of the tables and other woodwork produced during the same reign, bearing the impress of the more severe style of Inigo Jones, that there were then in England two styles of decorative furniture.
From two other suites at Knole, consisting of a looking glass, a table, and a pair of torchères, in the one case of plain walnut wood, and in the other of ebony with silver mountings, it would appear that a toilet suite of furniture of the time of James II.
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 georgian style sofas
A Georgian styled single pedestal computer desk of superb quality, for the home and office.
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Smart, comfortable Jacobean/Georgian style settee with two feather and down cushions, mahogany legs and beautiful 1970's yellow/gold figured damask.
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