Design for Sofa, with Alternative Suggestions
date: label: Date
content: 1780
name: label: Designer
content: Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sofa design in Louis XIV style. Alternative decoration at top rail shows a cornucopia and beading at left, urn and floral design at right. The legs show alternative scroll and leaf design. Sofa is referred to a as a "canapé a joues." Upholstery, dusty pink stripes interspersed with blue floral motif. Scale at bottom: 4 pied.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1911-28-180
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, brush and wash, pink and blue watercolor, graphite on heavy white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 21.3 x 30.7 cm (8 3/8 x 12 1/16 in.)