Regency Bergère Library Armchair
Under the heading Fashionable Furniture in the popular the magazine of the early nineteenth century, Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, appear two library chairs. These are described by the author as “two of the most convenient and comfortable chairs perhaps ever completed.” One of two the chairs in question is a Bergère Library Armchair, on the left of the illustration below. Bergère armchairs were noted for their utility as they regularly featured ‘arms’ to hold a small movable desk and a candlestick. Each piece, Ackermann suggests, “has become a favourite piece of furniture for the library, boudoir and other apartments.”
