The Green Hour Sofa
$650.00
Not every green is this green. Forest-deep, light-drinking, the kind of color that makes a room feel like it has a secret. This Victorian camelback sofa wears it in velvet, tufted across every surface, edged in a line of gold nailheads that catches the light like a held breath.
The form is unapologetically ornate. Carved cabriole legs, rolled arms, a silhouette that belongs in a painting. And yet it settles into a room with unexpected ease, the richness of it grounding rather than overwhelming.
The camelback form dates to Thomas Chippendale's 18th-century England, built for the aristocracy and shaped by rococo influence: natural curves, ornate legs, the suggestion that furniture should feel as considered as architecture. By the time it traveled to France, the form had settled into the salons where, between five and six in the evening, absinthe was poured and called l'heure verte. The green hour. Baudelaire was there. Toulouse-Lautrec was there. The conversation went until someone decided it shouldn't.
This sofa is from that world.
The velvet is real, and it shows its age. Years of use have softened the pile in places, deepened the color, given it a texture that new velvet doesn't have.
This is a sofa for the guest who doesn't leave until 2am. For the argument that turns into something else. For reading the same paragraph four times because the velvet is too good to move. For the dinner party that migrates from the table. For the afternoon that had no plan and became the best one.
The form is unapologetically ornate. Carved cabriole legs, rolled arms, a silhouette that belongs in a painting. And yet it settles into a room with unexpected ease, the richness of it grounding rather than overwhelming.
The camelback form dates to Thomas Chippendale's 18th-century England, built for the aristocracy and shaped by rococo influence: natural curves, ornate legs, the suggestion that furniture should feel as considered as architecture. By the time it traveled to France, the form had settled into the salons where, between five and six in the evening, absinthe was poured and called l'heure verte. The green hour. Baudelaire was there. Toulouse-Lautrec was there. The conversation went until someone decided it shouldn't.
This sofa is from that world.
The velvet is real, and it shows its age. Years of use have softened the pile in places, deepened the color, given it a texture that new velvet doesn't have.
This is a sofa for the guest who doesn't leave until 2am. For the argument that turns into something else. For reading the same paragraph four times because the velvet is too good to move. For the dinner party that migrates from the table. For the afternoon that had no plan and became the best one.
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- Furniture is available for pick-up at our New York Gallery Store.
- Furniture delivery is available within a 2-hour driving distance of New York City.
- $150 delivery fee for locations within 20 miles
- $250 delivery fee for locations beyond 20 miles (up to a 2-hour drive)