FURNITURE GLOSSARY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 397, 4 July 1928, Page 7

FURNITURE GLOSSARY

WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT PIECE? FIFTH SERIES 26. HUTCH. An oak cabinet with doors, a variation of the French credence or armoire, used generally for the storage of provisions and common from Tudor and Jacobean times up to the reign of Queen Anne. 27. LADDER BACK CHAIR. A chair with back composed of curved horizontal slats between the uprights

similar to the rungs of a ladder. This design was common in Georgian times, especially in Yorkshire, where a sturdy, immensely strong farmhouse type of ladder back was made, generally with a plaited rush seat. 28. LINENFOLD. Or parchmentpattern, was a favourite form of decorating panels of furniture. It was of Flemish origin, but became in England about the end of the 15th Century. As its name implies, in design it resembles a folded napkin or a parchment rolled on a rod. It was often utilised in panelled woodwork for rooms. 29. LIT de REPOS. Or day bed.became popular after 1 630, and was used for the siesta, which prior to this date was taken in bed. It seems to have been first popular in France and spread from that country, like most of the other refinements of life, to the rest of Europe. 30. LOVE SEAT. A small upholstered settee, about the size of a double chair, which was first made in Jacobean times and called a courting chair or love seat; it was the precursor of our modern sofa.