What do you call a one-person sofa?

[RivkahChaya]

My aunt and uncle have a chair that is smaller than a love seat, and has only one seat cushion, but is big enough to seat two. We just always called it “The big chair.” It wouldn’t fit two people on the larger size, but a necking couple, or an adult and a child fit just fine. If I looked like I’d had a bad day when I got home from school, my aunt would tell me to sit in the big chair, and then she’d sit next to me and cuddle me.

They’ve had it forever. I think we could even fit an adult and two little kids in it.

It is also a good chair for sitting in cross-legged with a good book, and for sitting back in with a nursing baby.

When I saw “One-person sofa,” I thought of that chair right away.

Also, DH and I have a “Cot futon”-- one size smaller than a twin. It can be stretched out flat, and function like a cot, it can fold up and look like a regular chair, or it can look like a long lawn chair. My son and I can sit side by side in it quite comfortably, although my husband and I together are a kind of tight squeeze. It’s also surprisingly comfortable for sleeping. If I have to kick the boychick out of his bed for a night and put him on the cot, I don’t worry. I’ve spent a few nights on it when DH has a cold, and is snoring like a sawmill. It’s more comfortable than the couch.

I think there are a lot of furniture designs that lend themselves to the “small love seat” design, but there isn’t a standard design. If it has two cushions, it’s a love seat. If it had one, it’s a chair, albeit, possibly a big one. If it reclines, it’s a recliner. If it unfolds for sleeping, it’s a futon, and it could be twin-sized, and be pretty big.

[Go_Arachnid_Laser_1]

A thingie.

[Mighty_Girl]

Club chair, to me.

Or possibly Steve.

[robardin]

A sign that I desperately need to lose some weight.

[gigi]

@D.E.S.K.Top668

Not disagreeing with you, but when I hear “accent chair,” I think of a chair in a foyer that is more decoration then an actual place to sit for more then a moment.

Yes, I agree with this definition.

[Shodan]

@Pitchmeister

This is an area where the English language really falls short. In German, the word you are looking for is Sessel.

Then in English, it should be called a B. DeMille.

Regards,
Gloria Swanson

[GrumpyBunny]

@elfkin477

I was under the impression that it’s an oversized chair for an oversized person, so it would seat one person comfortably.

It’s also handy if a regular-sized person has cats. Mine fits me, and 3 kitties.

One of the kitties ends up on the ottoman, but starts off on the chair with me.

[Chronos]

Many dining room sets will have most of the chairs lacking the arms, but one or maybe two of them for the ends of the table in the same style as the others, but with arms. Leading, of course, to family fights over who gets to sit in the… What do you call that chair, if not “the armchair”?

The one in the living room is, of course, also an armchair, but it’s more specifically an easy chair, and may even more specifically be a recliner.

[AncientHumanoid]

A coffee table/book. Like Kramer’s.

[TBG]

Pee Wee’s Playhouse answered this a few decades ago. It’s Chairy!

[TruCelt]

@Chronos

Many dining room sets will have most of the chairs lacking the arms, but one or maybe two of them for the ends of the table in the same style as the others, but with arms. Leading, of course, to family fights over who gets to sit in the… What do you call that chair, if not “the armchair”?

The one in the living room is, of course, also an armchair, but it’s more specifically an easy chair, and may even more specifically be a recliner.

My Mother would have called the chairs at the head and foot of the table “Fateuil” chairs.

And in searching for the correct spelling of that, I found this,which contradicts her, because hers were lyre chairs. Very interesting link.

[Tangent]

@foolsguinea

An easy chair.

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