Copy of original XF95, this small window seat has scrolled arm rests; the apron is fluted with paterae in the centre and above the legs; the side aprons are undecorated; slender fluted baluster front legs; the back legs plain.

This is one of a pair of copies commissioned as part of Phase 2 of Opening up the Soane to replace two of the three such settees that seem to be listed in the 1837 Furniture and Fittings inventory (two ‘mahogany settees covered with horsehair’ are listed in the Morning Room and one listed in the Bath Room). In the 1825 view of the Bath Room two such settees are shown, upholstered as the inventory describes in black horsehair. By the time the 1837 inventory was drawn up there was only one in the Bath Room, described as ‘1 mahogany settee, stuffed seat and ends, covered with horse hair’ – a description more like XF95 than the pair in the Morning Room entry which are not described as having stuffed ends. In making the replicas we considered all the illustrations (including two illustrations of c.1824 and 1827 showing a very similar settee in Monk's Parlour) and concluded that there were once three of them as the 1837 inventory indicates (with, n the 1820s, two being in the Dressing Room or Bath Room and one in the Monk’s Parlour).

Two copies were made by The Odd Chair Company and placed in The restored Morning Room as part of OUTS.