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This distinctively shaped canap, with its gently undulating back and tapered form, must have been conceived for a particular position in a room, designed to harmonize with the boiserie, as opposed to the lighter seat-furniture, or mobilier, which was designed to go in the middle of the room, and which, as its name would imply, could be moved around as needs arose. It may well have been one of a pair, perhaps to be placed either side of a fireplace. A pair of canaps supplied by Nicolas Heurtaut to the comtesse de Sran for the chteau de la Tour, Normandy, each with only one arm and designed to oppose each other, may have served a similar purpose (illustrated in B.G.B Pallot, L'Art du Sige Au XVIIIe Sicle en France,1987, Paris, 1987, pp. 246-7.