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in order for that thing to be workable it needs a lot of love. and by "love" i mean encyclopedic historical research and custom pillow engineering.

and for $500 that frame better be solid hardwood.

Skip the research -- I doubt it's a genuine Regency-era piece. Those never had separate seat cushions, and something in the lines is also wrong. It's more likely a mass-produced 20th century Regency Revival sofa, though those usually had sturdier lines. There's a chance that it's handmade (more recently) from a Duncan Phyfe-style pattern book. Such exist: my grandfather has one that he uses to build fake Regency sofas. (This sofa isn't one of his, though.)

ooo, there's a featurette subject:
wende's grandpa!

imho this sofa is crazy overpriced

It looks like Edith Wharton DID love that couch.

Still, with a fabric do-over, and in the right place, I vote yes.

Oh, and I was going to say it looks as though poor Edit DIED on the coach. $500? Good grief.
I must vote No.

I find Wende's grandfather rather fascinating, however.

Fake or not, a good upholsterer would help figure out the best way to re-upholster it, and if you throw a few grand at it, you have something pretty damn fab.

Meanwhile, I hope that your grandfather lives forever, so he can always keep making stuff like this (even though I understand that you're saying that he didn't make this one). Plus, if you actually like your grandfather, there's the side benefit of you enjoying having him around.

Anyway... I think that the very long horizontality of this style is kind of very wonderfully modern, with kind of bold S-curve thing on each end that would make me tempted to pair it with a pair of 1980's assymetrical spiral-y club chairs that would be mirror-images of each other. Then the whole look would be kind of a flip-de-do Deco thing that would just be luscious.

That couch is the lime green hatchback of Apartment Therapy. Who's going to want to buy a lime green hatchback?

I am the inheritor of couch-in-question. Alas, I have not been too gentle with and the original owner believed "care" meant nailing plywood to support the base. Needless to say, it needs The Right Person. The frame is solid. There is some extra fabric included. Beauty is salvagable.

Price negotiable. Especially for Curtis.

Thanks, Mrs. Lives, but I'm all set with the couch I have. I just know what I'd do with this one if I had the chance.

"Beauty is salvagable." is the best thing I've heard in a long, long time.

Whitewash the frame, upholster in blue and white ticking: Swedish delight

Ebonize the frame, upholster in blood-red velvet: the Divan Lestat.

Gold leaf the frame, swath in the palest lavender or robin's egg mohair: Couch candy.

Silver leaf the frame, wrap in (you knew it was coming!) white patent leather: funky Palm Beach Grand Dame.

I think it's hot. Reupholstered in white canvas? Yes. But $500.00 now? Too expensive.

I'm beginning to like this after reading Curtis and P(too)'s posts but my $500 is being saved for my first and discreet tattoo. Oh well.

I'll vote yes to cancel out my earlier no.

If you wrap that couch in white patent leather, then you have to let me do a paint-by-number mural of a snowy landscape behind it. And yes, I think it would be delicious if that were to be in Palm Beach.

jmarieb--
No longer so discrete now, is it?! ;)

Curtis--
So very Doctor Zhivago! With a snow leopard (faux, of course) throw, and white Russian Wolfhound...

Or just a White Russian.

Give me a few white russians...wait, a few black russians...wait, a few rocks glasses full of Belvedere and I'm sold, and ready to take on a project. I'm thinking silver leaf with a hot pink and black zebra print. Why? Why not! ;)

I love it! Obviously needs much work and $500 is too much for something that would need that much work, but still, I love it! Curtis you're a genius.

You would have to truly have both the cash and the desire to "restore" this reproduction. The "nailing plywood to support the base" thing just kills it for me. This is one of those items you "give" away.

P2 -
I seriously have some of those snow scenes in p-b-n. When you're working Florida, keep in mind that one of them has a moose, and one has 3 deer walking. It would be so hot it's just absolutely not funny.

Aloha Ya'll,

I know nothing of antique furniture.

Would I pay $500 for it? Not with my lower cost of living mentality. Do I see potential and beauty in this couch, most definitely.

Cooking Cajun

I like it. It reminds me of my own couch, although mine is in a little better condition (no plywood, anyway!). I originally thought I'd make an upholstery project of it, but I like the thing too much to subject it to my own efforts, and I don't yet have lots of money to spend on that particular venture. Anyway, I got mine for 100$ off CL, and I certainly wouldn't pay 500$ for this one. Definite potential, though.