Sofas come in a variety of colors, patterns, and materials (two-seater model)

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A couch, also known as a sofa, settee, lounge or chesterfield is an item of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person. Photo by Lotushead. From www. ... Photo by Lotushead. From www. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... For the band by this name see Couch (band) Sofas come in a variety of colors, patterns, and materials A couch, also known as a sofa, settee, or chesterfield is an item of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person. ... Furniture is the collective term for the movable objects which support the human body (seating furniture and beds), provide storage, and hold objects on horizontal surfaces above the ground. ...

Couches are usually to be found in the living room or the lounge. They come in a variety of textiles and in leather. A typical couch seats two to three people and has an armrest on either side. Many different types of couch exist: popular types include the divan, the chaise longue, the canapé or the ottoman. Also, to save space, some sofas double as beds (sofa-bed, daybed or futon). I HAVE ONE!!!! A living room (or sitting room, especially in commonwealth English, also called lounge room in Australia) is a room for entertaining guests, reading, watching TV, or other activities. ... The term lounge can refer to: a living room in a private house, a public waiting area, provided with seating, as in a hotel or airport an Airline lounge is a private waiting area offered by airlines to pecial customers or to those who pay an extra fee lounge music... It has been suggested that Textile manufacturing be merged into this article or section. ... Modern leather-working tools Leather is a material created through the tanning of hides, pelts and skins of animals, primarily cows. ... This article should be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... A rococo chaise longue A modern chaise longue A chaise longue (French long chair) is an upholstered couch taking the form of a chair but the seat part being of sufficient extent to support the users legs horizontally. ... A canapé or canape is a small, prepared, and usually decorative hors doeuvres which is held in the fingers, and often eaten in one bite. ... An ottoman An ottoman is a piece of furniture, a padded, upholstered seat without arms, often used as a stool or footrest. ... A double bed A bed is a piece of furniture or location primarily used or intended for sleeping upon, but also commonly used for sexual activities, and for relaxing, sitting and reading. ... This article is about a Japanese mattress. ...

There are other types, including two-seater, three-seater, corner and chaise longue. A smaller version of the couch which may only comfortably seat two people is more commonly known as a loveseat. Sofas come in a variety of colors, patterns, and materials (two-seater model) Anciet Greek sofa A couch, also known as a sofa, settee, or chesterfield is an item of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person. ... A corner is the place where two walls meet at an acute angle, and is generally thought to be the least beneficial position to be in a life-or-death situation. ... A rococo chaise longue A modern chaise longue A chaise longue (French long chair) is an upholstered couch taking the form of a chair but the seat part being of sufficient extent to support the users legs horizontally. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

A three-piece suite is composed of three couch pieces (generally, a two- or three-seater and two armchairs). Sofas come in a variety of colors, patterns, and materials (two-seater model) Anciet Greek sofa A couch, also known as a sofa, settee, or chesterfield is an item of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person. ...

History

The couch was originally an Arabian ruler's throne and has been in existence since antiquity. In Roman society the couch was found in the dining room, known as the 'triclinum'. Three couches would be arranged around a low table and the men would recline while eating (but the women sat in normal chairs). The Arabian Peninsula The Arabian Peninsula is a mainly desert peninsula in Southwest Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia and an important part of the greater Middle East. ... Ancient history is the study of significant cultural and political events from the beginning of human history until the Early Middle Ages. ...

Originally it was an elitist piece of furniture and it was not until industrialization that the couch became an indispensable item of furniture in middle and lower class households. Throughout its history it has often been an object of derision, considered a variety of things from decadent to conformist. Elitism is a belief or attitude that an elite — a selected group of persons whose personal abilities, specialized training or other attributes place them at the top of any field (see below) — are the people whose views on a matter are to be taken most seriously, or who are alone... The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ... A social class is, at its most basic, a group of people that have similar social status. ... The household is the basic unit of analysis in many microeconomic and government models. ... Decadence was the name given, first by hostile critics, and then triumphantly adopted by some writers themselves, to a number of late nineteenth century fin de siècle writers associated with Symbolism or the Aesthetic movement. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

The couch is often associated with Freudian psychoanalysis. Freud originally used the couch as a tool to aid his hypnosis of the patient. However when he moved on from hypnosis to stream-of-consciousness discourse as his dominant mode of analysis with the development of the interpretation of dreams, he still held on to the couch. He justified this with the need to limit the transference between psychoanalyst and analysand. Thus, the couch proved particularly useful because it limits the visibility of the analyst. Sigmund Freud His famous couch Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, a movement that popularized the theory that unconscious motives control much behavior. ... Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that seeks to elucidate connections among unconscious components of patients mental processes, and to do so in a systematic way through a process of tracing out associations. ... Hypnosis has been practiced for thousands of years and continues to be controversial. ... Hypnosis has been practiced for thousands of years and continues to be controversial. ... In psychology and philosophy stream of consciousness, introduced by William James, is the set of constantly changing inner thoughts and sensations which an individual has while conscious, used as a synonym for stream of thought. ... Dream interpretation is the art of determining the meaning (or alleged meaning) of the symbolic content of a dream. ... Transference is a phenomenon in psychology characterized by unconcious redirection of feelings from one person to another. ...

Today the couch is invariably linked to both domestic family life and television culture. It is often positioned in relation to the television set in a living room and for siesta. It has spawned social phenomena such as the couch potato, a person who spends a lot of time watching the television. The couch has also become the central prop for many TV sitcoms and soap operas. This symbiosis, through which the couch has shifted from the private to the public sphere, has been satirically depicted in popular culture, in television series such as Married... with Children, The Simpsons and Beavis and Butt-head. A family of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family is a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups, typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by comparable legal relationships including domestic partnership, adoption, surname and in some cases ownership (as was the case in the Roman... A television set may be: An electronic device for receiving, decoding, and displaying television images. ... I HAVE ONE!!!! A living room (or sitting room, especially in commonwealth English, also called lounge room in Australia) is a room for entertaining guests, reading, watching TV, or other activities. ... A siesta (IPA: ) is a short nap taken in the early afternoon, often after the midday meal. ... This article is about biological spawning. ... A couch potato is (originally U.S.) slang for a person who spends most or much of his time sitting or lying on a couch, or perhaps an armchair or recliner,[1] watching television in his underwear and often drinking beer. ... In the performing arts, a prop (the common short form for the more formal property) is anything that is carried by a performer during the performance. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television or radio . ... Married. ... Homer, a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, is a generally well-meaning buffoon whose short attention span often draws him into outrageous schemes and adventures. ... Beavis and Butt-head is an animated series that aired on the cable television channel MTV from 1993 to 1997. ...

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