Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 81
e horizontal line. Legs curving out at thefloor level, such as are common on modern sofas, are unknown on Romancouches. It is surely not a flight of fancy to say that the Roman sofas are justthe sort of thing one would e.xpcct the Romans to produce—severe and lacking infine and beautiful lines, but… … •^11 considering the weight to be borne, than the curve mentioned above as frequentin modern sofa-legs. It would be as impossible to think of the Romans makingcouches like the typical Empire sofa as to think of the Roman high-backedcouch as an expression of the age and land in which the Empire…
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