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Sofa – there is so much to this word. Some encyclopedia argue that the European sofa is descended from a simple wooden bench. Although the word sofa apparently of Persian origin.

By the middle of magnificent XVII century, when the harsh Middle Ages left far behind, one way or another came the first real soft armchairs and sofas, stuffed with wool. One of the oldest types of sofa - it is a couch, a long, upholstered in fabric or leather seat with adjustable tilt head. Looking back on the couch immediately evident that it arose from his chair. Relationship issue thin delicate legs.

By the middle of the XVIII century couches have been distributed in Europe and European colonies. But the classic French canapés it does not appear on the couch, but also akin to a chair. At the elegant, usually carved legs, attached the same carved frame. In canapes long back - the entire length of the seat. Its shape suggests that several backs of chairs joined together. By the way, the predecessors canapes were sofas, whose backs of the chairs is quite clear that there separately. On the settee was made solely to sit, while on the couch is usually relaxed reclined secular beauty.

Sofa - a low sofa, set up on the story of the bliss of the Muslim East. It is covered with bright upholstery fabric or leather. On it are solid furniture cushions. First, they were stuffed with hair or horse hair, but then there were steel springs. After over one and a half centuries, humanity thrives, relying primarily on them. At first, outwardly restrained the West preferred to sit on the sofa, and not lie. So our eye is pleased with many types of sofas, equipped with backs like chairs, seats, separated by a kind of soft table. But gradually the idea of lying on the couch won. Since the Europeans started to lie and even sleep on the couches, they (the couches) was unrecognizable. Of course, in the living room survived classic saloon sofas. They even added chic styling, such as sofas in the spirit of, say, "Louis XVI", with all the brilliant parade paraphernalia. His contribution made and the adherents of the new materials to create a design of chrome tubes, colored leather cushions, bent plywood and even inflatable modules. Exporter sofa all to delight the eye and is designed to inspire respect, however, as his office colleague, decorating interior spaces for negotiation and lounges. But in a large quantity multiplied entirely new varieties of sofas, whose main mission - to provide a comfortable bed, and not just casual guests for one night, but often the owner of the house on a permanent basis. What to do, the costs of urbanization does not allow many to place in his apartment a few bedrooms, so the night turns into a living room into a bedroom.

Meanwhile, combine the sofa and the bed is not easy. Bed has a wide bed, which is convenient to lie not only alone, but together. A couch, so it was nice to sit, leaning back, this width is not needed. Besides the wide bed is quite a lot of places. So at the beginning of XX century there were sofas. Actually their varieties and determine to a large extent the face of the market. The best sofas have in common is that the mattress rests on orthopedic armor, strong and elastic strips of beech. This makes such a high-end contemporary sofa beds. And then comes into effect the mysterious mechanism of transformation - the heart of modern sofas. It allows you to increase the sleeping area into two or even three. One of the most simple and reliable option - it Vykatnoy mechanism. From under the main seat module simply rolls out on wheels. He remains autonomous, forming the second box, which at times can rise to be at the same height as the main. However, this design is not too convenient for those who really just wants to sleep alone. The most popular model now, and many years ago - a sofa-book. It has two positions: with a raised back and expansions, when the back becomes a bed. An improved mechanism for the transformation of "click-Klak" allows you to record back even in the third position - reclining. Under the sofa "click-Klak" quite often place a box for bedding that allows not to pursue the cabinet for laundry.

The mechanism of transformation "accordion" works as follows: seat sofa with the front legs stretched forward, and extends back behind the seat and down in his place.

Sofa dolphin is designed so that when rolling out its frontal part of the seat under the main crops up additional planes. It becomes flush with the seat, and together they form a fairly comfortable bed. There is also a "French clamshell" or "Miksotual" - metal mesh stretched on multiple sections of a tubular frame, connected by hinges. When folded, these sections are extremely tightly formed, and a sofa occupies minimal space.

Modern furniture designer, creating the shape of the sofa, got rid of the need to depend on the material from which made its construction. Numerous artificial materials that mimic natural or opposite - no matter what do not like, make it possible to roam fantasy. Many models of sofas reminiscent of the geometric designer: quadrangular seat, cylindrical rollers, triangular armrests and so on. Fans of geometrism even sofas with leather pillows to create their favorite style, but also the arms turn in the stepped pyramidal structures of the same leather pillows. Some time popular cube-shaped armchairs and sofas, is clearly reminiscent of the box, the outer surface of which is created from polished wood panels - upholstery like hiding inside the wooden fence. The couch, which now usually have a frame made of metal tubes, often attach the rotating table, so you can put on him a book or even some trifle. The couches can serve as a visual aid in topology. Most of the seat makes a wavy or breaketh a few times. Yes! yet sometimes twisted or cut off that, on a plan designer must not only demonstrate its non-standard thinking, but without tension to keep the feet sat at meat contact with the floor.

Sofa can also get a seat, and bent in several planes. The undulating troughs alternate with broad plateaus, which play the role of armrests or original tables. Alternatively, the seat is a series of hemispherical holes - individual seats. In addition, the seat could be in the form of semi-oval or a rectangle covering the coffee table.

Popularly and the use of visual illusions. For example, the colors of upholstery may consist of sections of different colors. So visually stands out only part of the back, and the couch seems smaller than it is in reality.

Popular and spatial masking. For example, the base of the sofa is made of thin tubes, which are also deeply hidden under the seat. So it seems that the sofa hovers above the floor. Or, fold-transformer type "accordion" is covered with a thick veil, which completely hides the true shape of the sofa, giving it a rounded and smooth all the corners. And in the folded position, the detail of the interior is in addition to the main mattress. Designer fantasy creates ever new forms. Divan, composed of small spheres, each - with a spring loaded inside, fastened together with special technology, sofa transformable in a two-tier bed.