Rolled arm leather bench ?

Chaise Lounge

OOps forgot to add tufted...

Beautiful?

I added vintage to leather fainting couch and got lots of hits

Here is a link that might be useful: Fainting couches

Check out Psychiatrist's couch.

Here is a link that might be useful: Psychiatrist's couch

Could be a rolled arm bench, but we can't see if there is another arm which I would expect for that. Otherwise, you can call it a chaise longue/recamier/fainting couch which can come in many styles. You can also look under lounge chair, chaise, or chaise lounge as EG3d said since it is sometimes listed that way.

LOL @ flymom65. :)

Thanks, everyone. It looks like the word "vintage" is an important word to add to the search term. No luck yet on an exact match. I just thought there might be a specific term since I've seen 2 different ones in pics labeled "Traditional British".

I'd call it hot if it's that close to the fire!

Do a search on "tufted armless chaise" and you'll find a number of similar pieces...

I searched "traditional British furniture" and kept seeing Chesterfield sofas, so I decided to search "Chesterfield chaise". I found an identical one! The catch? It's not for sale. :...( The search continues...

It's a recamier, French word for recline, pronounced wreck calm me A.

Miss Prissy Wordling here...actually, it's "chaise longue," which means long chair...not "lounge," although many people (including retailers and designers who ought to know) say "lounge."

Michael Quinion, on his World Wide Words site, says this:

"Many visitors to the US are surprised to find that the name for the article of furniture is not only still known ... but is indeed often called a chaise lounge (though by no means all Americans describe it thus). This spelling and pronunciation appears in dictionaries of American English and is now so established that no amount of remonstration, condemnation or ridicule will affect its status one jot.
The original form, chaise longue, is French, meaning "long chair". Though the chaise lounge form is a classic example of folk etymology's changing an odd foreign word into something more meaningful, in one way it's hard to criticise - it is, after all, a seat that one lounges on ..."

Here is a link that might be useful: Chaise Longue on WorldWideWords

Recamier...I hope I do find one of those, if only to be able to sound impressive. :) Yayagal, are they also known to be shorter than a chaise?

The word "recamier" comes from the famous portrait of Madame Récamier by Jacques-Louis David.

This post was edited by cloudy_christine on Sat, Jan 12, 13 at 17:59

Sigh. Why does the character encoding for the accent look right in the preview but not in the post? Trying again : Madame Récamier.

Sarah calls it a Chez......

Oh what a gorgeous painting. My favorite painting in all the world is The Coronation of Napoleon by David. I almost swooned when I saw it in the Louvre.

I may have wished to have that fainting couch near by. It is beautiful.

Nate, the ones I've seen are shorter due to the fact that they're antiques and people were smaller. I've never seen a new one.

The lady looks like she's about to undergo a bleeding, or just finished. What a weird arm placement.
I just googled her in images. She was a very popular subject and had an interesting life!

For some reason, I have always disliked the "lounge" of chaise lounge, so I'm a little happy that it's not correct. I'm going to start calling my fainting couch a recamier, she deserves to be remembered.

@ Yayagal: I'm both pleased and disappointed by your response. I'm pleased that they are shorter, however, I am disappointed that they're only available as antiques. The space I have in mind for it is only about 6 ft wide, so that's good, but it also means I'll have quite the search to do.

It is pronounced 'chez' arcy.

Bronwynsmom, glad someone else is like me on that term (see my post near top). :)

I only know how to pronounce it and know what it is, from reading ten thousand+ Romance/Gothic/Harlequin books from ages 12-25. Chaise longue/lounge is quite popular in the Victorian ones!
And I always, then and now, look up words I don't know.
So useful in life, lol!

Here is one that I have always liked from Napastyle. It has different styling in the legs but similar.

Here is a link that might be useful: Napastyle leather armless chaise.

You could get this one that geokid posted about Friday...
if you're talented at upholstering. :)

Here is a link that might be useful: Antique fainting couch--worth the hassle?