Canapé (furniture) Frequently matching chairs were made to go with it. Precious hardwoods such as walnut, cherry, and mahogany were often used in its construction. Currently the term is used in world furniture design and retail as a variation on "sofa", except when antiques or reproductions of 18th century designs are concerned. Canapé (furniture) A canapé is a piece of furniture similar to a couch, and is meant to describe an elegant sofa made out of elaborately carved wood with wooden legs, and upholstered seats, back, and armrests that seats three, that emerged from France in the 18th century. A style created
Valerie Bergere Wisconsin. Bergere next played ingénue parts with Maud Granger in tours of California and the Pacific Northwest. She was Blanch Livingston opposite Steve Brodie at the Fourteenth Street Theatre in the Robert Neilson Stephens 1894 play "On the Bowery". In 1895 Bergere played Jen in Stephens’ "A White Rat", and starred as the French adventurer Marie Vernet in "On the Mississippi". Over the season of 1897–98 Bergere was a member of the stock company affiliated with the Girard Avenue Theatre in Philadelphia, where she played Henrietta in "The Two Orphans", adapted for the American stage by N. Hart Jackson and