The defender Gianluca Bollini and his brother in midfield, Fabio, make their living lugging furniture around and, so far as we are aware, can be relied upon to get your settees and pouffes from one place to another on time, without damage and at a reasonable cost.
At Holkham Hall in Norfolk, Rousham Hall in Oxfordshire, and elsewhere, Kent's furniture may be seen in its proper environment: gilt mirrors and side tables with sets of chairs and settees covered with patterned velvets matching the grandeur of elaborate architectural Palladian interior decoration.
Upholstered settees of serpentine form, window seats with scrolled arms, and small square- and circular-topped inlaid tables and bookcases with delicate tracery in the glass doors also characterize the graceful Hepplewhite style.
The stark simplicity of his furniture designs, in particular, appealed to contemporary taste, and reproductions of Mackintosh chairs and settees began to be manufactured.
* After his/her eye was drawn by this column's coverage of the embattled Chipping Norton Set, a generous reader has furnished me with a page from the Summer 2011 issue of The Heythrop Hack, magazine of the Heythrop Hunt: a CNS institution, regularly patronised by several Chipping Norton settees.
For people so rich, it's the equivalent of handing us the small change down the back of their settees.
Different types of settees were given names deriving from their function, their style, or someone associated with them.
Heart- and shield-shaped backs on chairs and settees and tapered and fluted supports for tables and other pieces are characteristic; feathers, wheat ears, and shells are prominent in the painted or inlaid decoration.
Through the dusty windows I saw Staffordshire dogs and majolica cats, dusty crystal, tarnished silver, antique chairs and settees upholstered in sallow old brocade, an elaborate faience birdcage, miniature marble obelisks atop a marble-topped pedestal table and a pair of alabaster cockatoos.
From there, you can buy accessories galore, from spa chairs to velvet settees to VW Beetles.
He was sitting on one of two brown velvet settees he has in his living room, a grand space accented by a fluffy white life-size sculpture of a sheep (the work of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne) and an astounding view of the Eiffel Tower.
