A Library Chair

Fashionable Furniture from Ackermann’s Repository July 1811 at 40-41

Under this head, we this month present our readers with a representation and description of a truly novel and useful article, called the Metamorphic Library Chair. This chair, which forms, at the same time, a complete set of library steps, as considered the best and handsomest article ever yet invented, where two complete pieces of furniture are combined in one—an elegant and truly comfortable arm-chair, and a set of library steps. The latter is as firm, safe and solid as a rock, and may, with the greatest ease, by merely lifting up with the right hand the back of the chair, be metamorphosed into as complete an arm-chair as can be wished for. It may be made of mahogany, or any other wood, and to any shape or size, either as represented in the plate, or with caned back and sides, and French stuffed cushions covered with Morocco leather, &c. This ingenious piece of furniture is manufactured at Messrs. Morgan and Saunders’s, Catherine-street, Strand.