SETTEES, CHAISES-LONGUES AND SOFAS
A bit too comfortable for the likes of architect-designers, the settee and sofa attracted less design attention of the ‘progressive’ sort between rococo and art nouveau. The general commercial manufacturer was left to
provide comfortable seating of this sort and did so, often of a buttoned and overstuffed nature. Settles (q.v.) were another [...]

COTS, CRADLES AND CRIBS
Today the term ‘cradle’ describes a baby’s bed which rocks, either standing at floor level on two curved rockers, or suspended between two uprights, A cot or crib (the latter now an American term) implies the
high-sided bed on legs, with sides of equal height, which was first devised for toddlers around 1800. [...]

ANTIQUE SCREENS
Although made from Tudor times, antique screens furniture mostly date from the 18th century onwards, the majority from after 1750. A few screens were intended to block draughts or, in the bedroom furniture, to
protect modesty, but by far the majority were designed as fire-screens - particularly important for women, whose make-up was often [...]