Couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : University of Chicago Press · leaf 82
the back having a higher middle part, thus breaking the horizontal line. Legs curving out at the floor level, such as are common on modern sofas, are unknown on Roman couches. It is surely not a flight of fancy to say that the Roman sofas are just the sort of thing one would exjject the Romans to… … Fig. 40. — Relief from a Roman gravestone. — Island of Paros. considering the weight to be borne, than the curve mentioned above as frequent in modern sofa-legs. It would be as impossible to think of the Romans making couches like the typical “Empire” sofa as to think of the Roman high-backed couch…
Furniture, Ancient · Beds · Seating (Furniture)
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