Furniture may change ... room—aptly called a fainting room—to housing these fainting couches. One particular Victorian-era figure created an image of the chaise that still echoes through popular ...

The designer has blended prominent Regency settees, a chess table, a Chihuly sculpture, a 19th-century French marble mantel, ...

Move over bulky sectionals and lackluster loveseats, there is a new (old) sofa shape on our radar that's offering a stylish take on lounging — the "fainting sofa". More often than not ...

This trend was augmented by the Industrial Revolution and the growth of the middle class in the 19th century, which enabled young men to select a spouse and pay for a wedding, regardless of ...

In plainer language, people live in the city or they live in the country. Throughout the nineteenth century, the United States had been mostly a nation of farmers, who lived in the country.

At the beginning of the 19th century, very few people in Africa were practising Christians, apart from Ethiopians, Coptic Egyptians and people living in the remnants of the Kongolese Empire ...

Tucked into the walls of the Sleeping Bear Inn was a glass vile with a cork top still intact. After doing some research, ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.

Over the course of the second half of the nineteenth century, the requisites for the advancement of surgery began to fall into place. Among these was the need for adequate anesthesia ...

Couches are designed as a comfortable spot to sit and relax day in, day out. Unfortunately, this means keeping a couch clean can feel like a near-impossible task. Whether your challenges include ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. However, the production of better quality ...