What is the difference between a sofa and a settee?

Answer 1

Sofa, settee AND COUCH - all mean the same thing. Well they do in England anyway.

A chesterfield on the other hand must be made from leather and be of large proportions.

Answer 2

A sofa is large enough to hold 3 or 4 people. A settee holds two.

Answer 3

I think a sofa is the same as a couch.

I think maybe the settee is the foot rest thing.

Answer 4

Sofas, daybeds, settees, and settles are all elongated chairlike forms usually meant for two or more people.

A récamier is a reclining couch (for one person).

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Sofas

Sofas - long upholstered seating forms with arms.

Sofas were made as early as the 17th century, but these are exceedingly rare.

The camel-back sofa, named for its upholstered arched back, was favored from the mid-18th to the early 19th century. The major difference among various camel-back designs is the legs:

Cabriole or Marlborough legs are common on Queen Anne and Chippendale examples

Tapered legs were used on Federal-era pieces. Delicate Neoclassical carving on exposed woodwork is a hallmark of other Federal sofas, but is less evident on country pieces of the same era.

Empire sofas usually have large-scale decoration, scrolled arms, and sometimes dolphin legs or lion's-paw feet.

Empire sofa - Elliott House, Amherst Museum

Empire sofa - Colonial Furniture in America

Empire sofa - Colonial Furniture in America Two Sofas in the Duncan Phyfe Empire Style

Empire sofa - Athenaeum, Philadelphia

Empire sofa - Memorial Art Gallery of the University of of Rochester

Empire sofa - Elliott House, Amherst Museum

Empire sofa - Récamier / Grecian couch: MacKay Homestead, Genesee Country Village, & Museum

Upholstery: The importance of upholstery on a sofa or settee depends on the style of the piece. Many high-style examples were initially upholstered in elegant fabrics, but such original materials have rarely survived. When choosing new upholstery, study period patterns to determine what is appropriate to the style of a piece.

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Daybeds and Conversational Sofas

Daybeds - extended chairs used for lounging

Early daybeds are basically chairs with slanted backs and extended seats.

Some Federal designs are based on ancient couches.

Daybeds with one raised, often pillowlike end were produced throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

Asymmetrical settees, or méridiennes, were frequently made in Rococo Revival
and Eastlake styles.

Conversational sofas, or tete-a-tetes, having two seats facing in opposite directions and an S-shaped back, were also common in the Victorian period.
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Settees (se TEEZ)

Settees - usually shorter than sofas, though some longer models with openwork wooden backs are also given the name.
Developed from the settle. Long with a carved or upholstered back, arms, and a soft seat. it was originally designed to hold two or more persons. Usually matched the individual chairs of the period in contour and chairback decoration.

They were often described as two-, three-, or four-chair-back settees. A front leg was provided between each chair back; therefore, a three-chairback settee would have four legs in front to delineate the three seats. Popular in the 17th and 18th early centuries.

Answer 5

A settee is smaller than a loveseat.

Answer 6

A sofa has a back and hand rest

A sette usually has neither just like a long cusioned bench

Answer 7

a sette is a small or medium-sized sofa

Answer 8

The name only, they are the same thing. You can also add chesterfield to the mix.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

i have no clue its probably just a fancy word for a coach lol maybe try http://www.ask.com