The modern furniture market provides a wide choice of upholstered furniture to satisfy even the most refined tastes and unusual requests. It is for those who like non-standard solutions in interior design that they will be interested in original sofas with an equally original name of canapé. And in order to better understand what the sofas of this type are, a bit of history.
Classic couch sofa
The word "sofa", oddly enough, in ancient Eastern countries called the register of any documents. Later this word became known as the meeting place of the state council, then large halls for solemn events, and even later special elevations for sitting in these halls, covered with soft carpets. In enlightened Europe, they went further and created a hybrid of this kind of sitting and chair. So the first prototypes of canapé appeared. Over the years, canapes were decorated with carved wooden elements, curved legs, and expensive fabrics. And the classic canapé sofas acquired the appearance of a small sofa on four (sometimes six) legs with a soft seat, stiff armrests and high back (models with several backs were made). Such couches served as decoration for women's boudoir, even special rooms were created for them - sofa.
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Sofa Sofa in a modern interior
Modern coupé sofas are, as a rule, small soft sofas with one or another unfolding system (most often an accordion or roll-out mechanism), but in any case the sleeping place is perpendicular to the back. Due to its small size and the ability to form a fully-fledged, comfortably comfortable sleeping place, the sofas sofas are very popular among owners of small-sized apartments; for young people (students, for example) who rent housing.
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In addition, couches canapes can be successfully used to organize a place for sleeping in the nursery. Children's sofas canapes can be made with special fabrics upholstery with a dirt repellent effect, which is undoubtedly especially important for families with small children.
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Another interesting version of the modern sofa canapé - it is included in the modular structure of upholstered furniture. So, for example, joining a section of a canape with a corner section makes it possible to create a small corner sofa that will successfully fill the space in the deaf area of the room.
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But the canapé sofas in the classical version have not lost their popularity, especially when decorating the interiors of large country houses in the baroque style.