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A chaise longue sofa An 18th-century rococo chaise longue A late 19th-century chaise longue. A chaise longue (/ ʃ eɪ z ˈ l ɒ ŋ, tʃ eɪ z-,-ˈ l ɒ̃ ɡ /; [1] French: [ʃɛz lɔ̃ɡ], "long chair") is an upholstered sofa in the shape of a chair that is long enough to support the legs of the sitter. In modern French, the term chaise longue ...
Chaise longue chaise longue a long chair for reclining; sometimes misstated as "chaise lounge" Champs-Élysées lit. "Elysian Fields"; Avenue des Champs-Élysées, one of the broadest boulevards in Paris. Often referred to as simply les Champs. chanteuse '(female) singer', a female singer, especially at a nightclub, bar, cabaret, or diner. [10 ...
LC4 - Chaise longue "Long chair" LC5 - Sofa Bed; LC5.F - Canapé; LC6 - Table; LC7 - The Swivel Chair (1928) LC8 - Swivel Stool; LC9 - Bathroom Stool; LC10 P - Rectangular Low Table; LC11 P - Table; LC12 - Table designed in 1925 for Villa La Roche; LC13 - Fauteuil Wagon Fumoir; LC14 - Tabouret (1952 - 1959) (Tabouret LC14.01, Tabouret LC14.02 ...
The earliest furniture designers under Louis XV during the Regency included Claude III Audran, who had been responsible for furniture design under Louis XIV; Pierre Lepautre, who in 1699 became chief designer for Louis XIV, and Gilles-Marie Oppenordt, born in Holland, who became the furniture designer for the Regent.
Chaise longue à réglage continu, also Chaise longue modèle B 306 à réglage continu or Chaise longue B 306 (later Chaise Longue - LC4, in 1964), is a chaise longue designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and the French designer Charlotte Perriand, who worked in the atelier of the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and his partner Pierre Jeanneret.
A chaise longue is an upholstered sofa in the shape of a chair that is long enough to support the legs. Chaise longue may also refer to: Chaise Longue (Le Corbusier), a chair designed by Charlotte Perriand "Chaise Longue" (song), a 2021 song by Wet Leg
The word is adopted from the Greek triklinion (τρικλίνιον)—from tri-(τρι-), "three", and klinē (κλίνη), a sort of couch, or rather chaise longue. Each couch was sized to accommodate a diner who reclined on their left side on cushions while some household slaves served multiple courses brought from the culina , or kitchen ...
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.