empire sofa

We sat on a nineteenth-century American Empire sofa next to the fireplace.

"Remarkably interesting," said the old lady, seating herself with deliberation on an Empire sofa.

Most dramatic may be the ornate lion-pawed American Empire sofa, below.

One day Laura would be forced to sit beside the queen on her Empire sofa, a reluctant princess with no means of escape.

I'm going to use the two American Empire sofas, and I think the Biedermeier table.

He sat on the edge of the Empire sofa beside her, like a stone statue perched on the green-and-gold striped velvet.

Laura sat on the edge of the Empire sofa, tracing her finger over a green stripe in the stiff cushion beside her.

Empire sofas and chaise longues were placed at neat symmetric angles on the dense carpet.

He vaulted an Empire sofa, zigzagged precariously across stacks of nested tables, and found himself looking down into a hollow under a big desk.

Insisting that they all relax on the French Empire sofas in the library, Armbruster rang a bell.

Polished wood barriers, copied from those installed at the museum in the 1860's, keep visitors from sitting on the Empire sofas and Art Nouveau chairs.

The welcoming atmosphere is created not only by the owners' low-key amiability but by the homey seating - two Empire sofas, a child-size table and a cluster of small chairs, each with a needlepoint seat in a design from children's literature.

My quick-eyed guides saw me notice some turkey-feather fans on the Empire sofa and assured me that the Hampton men and their male guests fanned themselves with these superbly masculine accessories while they imbibed brandy and politics after dinner.

Contrasting a Bertoia metal chair with a Louis XVI settee, and making a connection between the photograph of a regal lion and the matching paws on the 1850 American Empire sofa are also part of the intellectual exercise.

These painted wood carvings are of flirtatious women in Grecian garments - each in a reclining position, leaning on one elbow - and are shown stretched out, one on a New York Empire sofa, the other on a ledge above.

The 48 rooms and suites (many of them two-room suites) are all different, with a whimsically eclectic feast of imitation parquet carpeting, antler lamps and tartan, leopard spots, chinoiserie or architectural prints, antique desks and empire sofas.

The parlor seems imagined precisely for a Christmas reading: its heavy mahogany door, marble mantel as black as coal, old-fashioned crystal lamps, red-silk damask Empire sofa and chair, moldings that look like meringues, a fat little Christmas tree and the satiny brown pianoforte all create a Nutcrackerish aura.

Its three owners - Aileen McDonough and Karen Memmott, formerly tea party caterers, and Dana Spicer, owner of Heart of the Country craft shop - joined forces and contributed family heirlooms: an Empire sofa, wing chairs and sets of Sheraton fancy and other chairs.