Christina here, and today I’m waxing lyrical about a piece of furniture – the chaise longue, a perfect place for reading!
I can’t remember when I first became aware of the existence of chaises longues, but it must have been when I was quite young. At that time, I didn’t even know it was a French expression as I hadn’t begun to study that language. But because Sweden had appointed a Frenchman as their king in the early 19th century (long story, but they invited one of Napoleon’s generals to become king and he accepted) there are a lot of words in Swedish that are borrowed from French. This was one of them and I knew it under the weird Swedish spelling – schäslong.
What I clearly do remember is that from the moment I first saw one, I wanted to own one, desperately!