Victorian Furniture

"tete-a-tete?"

Started by Amy · September 29, 2008 · 2 posts

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Victorian Furniture thread on victorianforum.com · started September 29, 2008 by Amy · 2 posts · discussion in 2008.

I am hoping someone can help identify an unusual piece my mother has left to me. It is a 3-seat piece, with the backs all together in the center and the seats radiating out in 3 different directions. She always called it a "tete-a-tete", but every search I have done under…

I am hoping someone can help identify an unusual piece my mother has left to me.  It is a 3-seat piece, with the backs all together in the center and the seats radiating out in 3 different directions.  She always called it a "tete-a-tete", but every search I have done under that name shows two seats in a linear form, not 3 seats in a circular form.  The explanation I was given was that it was designed for a young lady, a gentleman, and their chaperon.  Is anyone familiar with such an item?
Here are two others, here and here.  I've seen them before but never heard the chaperon explanation.  Makes sense.