Settle (furniture)
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A settle is a wooden bench, usually with arms and a high back, long enough to accommodate three or four sitters.
Seventeenth-century oak settle Dimensions: length 70 inches (180 cm), height 41.5 inches (105 cm), depth 23 inches (58 cm).
Irish settle bed in the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks
Seventeenth-century settle table combination. Dimensions: length 54 inches (140 cm), height as table 29.5 inches (75 cm), width 28.75 inches (73 cm).
William Burges
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William Burges was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he sought in his work to escape from both nineteenth-century industrialisation and the Neoclas
Settle (furniture)
…pre-reformation settles of which he was aware are in Winchester Cathedral. Neither of them contain cupboards or boxes. The English architect and designer William Burges designed the Zodiac settle, made between 1869 and 1870. The settle is painted and illustrated with dancing Zodiac signs, and adorned with inlaid pieces…
Burges in 1881
Burdett House, 15–16 Buckingham Street to the right of the York Water Gate. Burges had his home/studio in a building on the site of No.15.
All Saints Church, Fleet, in Hampshire, before an arson attack in 2015
Maison Dieu, Dover