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Couches are often found in fine art, for example the Velazquez’ Rokeby Venus, Canova’s Pauline Borghese as Venus in addition to, going back hundreds of years, Etruscan sarcophagi from the Cerveteri necropolis.
Nevertheless, as demonstrated by Dali’s Mae West sofa, furniture itself could also be a piece of art in its own right. When he constructed [...]

What lounger has to be England’s best known?
Check in North London, at the Freud Museum. The Museum sits in Freud’s London lodgings — where clients visited the famed sofa — after leaving Austria just ahead of German occupation (the Anschluss) in the late thirties. Safeguarded at the museum is his office, exactly as it was [...]