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Do you meant the bench, in the foreground, what might be called a daybed? There is no chair in the photograph.

It's French Empire style. Looks like an antique, so I'm guessing this was not a budget room.

Search also the term "victorian" since people love to lump that type of furniture into that term...

If you're on a tight budget, I think Bombay Company has something similar. But I'd hold out for a real antique.

I've always seen this sort of "daybed" referred to as a "chaise". I don't know my eras very well, but I think Lisa is right that it's a French Empire style, with the rolled arms. I've seen them on Craigslist once in awhile, averaging $200 - 400.

Good luck. I love chaises, too!

You might find something similar and not unreasonable at Ballarddesign.com

The technical term (if we were in Paris) is recamier, after Madame Recamier, a gorgeous early Nineteenth Century babe who was painted sitting in a similar piece--one modeled directly on an ancent Roman model--by the great Jaques Louis David. Here, we just call them Empire daybeds.

The cabinetmaker Duncan Phyfe made similar pieces in mahogany & others were included as part of a suite of Lannuier furniture made for the White House, all of which pieces were unfortunately burned up when the Brits set fire to the place in 1812. But the style is a classic, which is why these pieces are still showing up in places like Ballards & the Spiegel catalog almost 2 hundred years later. But if I were you, I'd watch out for the real thing, not buy a pricey new knockoff that isn't nearly as well-constructed.

I've been sleeping every night on a slightly beefier version of the one in the picture--mine is good old American walnut made in the 1830s or 1840s--since I was in college, when I picked it up at an antique show for $225. I had to eat macaroni-&-cheese for months to pay for it, but it was worth it, and I was the only kid in my dorm with one like it.

Anyway, keep your eyes open for a real one. These sometimes show up on ebay, as do authentic Empire sofas, which were generally built like tanks and which are often just as strong today as they were 175 years ago. I bought one of those (also from the 183Os,) last spring for $800, and that included new silk-&-wool upholstery, round bolsters & new (and authentic) horsehair padding, which stuff beats foam for longevity any day. The things are out there, and these days, prices for antiques are sagging, so now's the time to buy. Good luck.