sleep

Restoration of an Empire-period somno, veneered in mahogany burl. You might be wondering what a somno is? The somno, or somneau, appeared during the Consulate, at the beginning of the Napoleonic era. It is a small, table-shaped piece of furniture, cylindrical or square. Its closed section serves as storage. It is therefore placed in the bedroom, often near the bed, as a nightstand. Finally, it was during the Empire that it acquired the name "somno," from the Latin somnus, meaning sleep. The somno under the Empire. Under the First Empire, the somno […]