settee

"You might as well just sit on a settee cushion and hope for the best."

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025

Jimenez likes a backless settee or daybed placed in front of a fireplace, so people can admire the flames facing one way and turn to converse with others in the opposite direction.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

Wright Auctions, a leading venue for the sales of contemporary design goods, has fetched five-figure deals for a Hans Wegner desk, a George Nakashima settee and a chair designed by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

The fabulous settee is, unfortunately, a one-off, but it is very inviting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2023

She made me sit down on the frayed silk of her eighteenth century settee while she made me a little supper, with bread and honey and coffee, and tiny yellow apples, and a boiled egg.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

"We've had it all - beds, settees, cabinets - everything," Mr Davies added.

From BBC ● May 8, 2025

The sofa is the model for modern sofas with high arms the same height as the back, marketed as Knole sofas or settees today.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2021

“The bold colors, opulent gilded mirrors, crystal chandeliers, allegorical artwork, taxidermy and silk upholstered settees that decorate the mansion set a feeling of environmental submersion or time travel,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2021

Almost inevitably there are marble floors with truffle insets, acres of Persian carpets, hard-backed settees upholstered in maroon leather, silk-shaded ginger-jar table lamps casting light on phalaenopsis orchids planted in generic tole jardinières.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2020

We move into a formal living room with ornate molding and green velvet settees, so full of heavy furniture I can hardly see the floor.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett