Lost Furniture Design Classics: The Bacon Settle

In context of the Radio smow Sofa, Couch, Settee Playlist we briefly discussed the settle as an early forebearer of the settee. Existing in a myriad expressions and forms, one variation on the settle was a pleasingly multi-functional, multi-talented, culinary adept, object. And one that has, sadly, vanished from the contemporary furniture landscape....... An early 19th century English bacon settle Originating in the middle ages, John Gloag suggests they were known as early as the 12th