Daybeds: What are they good for"
Some say ?nothing.? Curbed investigates We?ve been celebrating the wonderful world of furniture all week long. If you?re just tuning in, you?re in luck: There?s much to pore over (12 straight hours in the country?s biggest Ikea! Conversation pits are back!).
Today, though, we turn to the dark side of furniture. Specifically, the discord and confusion when it comes to daybeds, which recently found themselves the subject of a New York Times shopping roundup.
So, what are daybeds, really" Are they of any use at all" Is a chaise longue a daybed" What of fainting couches" And when, if ever, is a bench a daybed"
The daybed?in its most common contemporary incarnation?is a bed-like, sofa-shaped piece of furniture with an upholstered, mattress-like seat, a high back, and two low sides (where arms would be on a couch). If it sounds like a useless hybrid, this editor would argue that in eight out of nine times, it is.
A Google search for ?daybed? returned these...handsome hunks of metal and wood, each of which is one-part bed, one-part sofa.
There are also modern daybeds that further blur the line between bench and bed by scrapping the high back and sides altogether in favor of a more streamlined look. Case in point: a daybed (confusingly called the Barcelona Couch) by one Mies van der Rohe. It comes with a cylindrical lumbar pillow; the black-leather version will run you $10,065 at Design Within Reach.
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