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Exactly which lounger has to be London’s most famous? Check in the renowned Freud Museum, Hampstead. The Museum sits where Sigmund Freud settled (and set up his world renowned consulting rooms and couch), after he fled the Nazis annexed Austria — the Anschluss — in 1938. Kept as it was is Freud’s office, exactly as he left it following his years handling patients, and resting there is his chaise longue, featured in myriad lampoons and skits.

As with the father of psychiatry, England’s best known chaise longue comes from outside England. It had set out heading toward immortality in Austria. As you may know, this was Freud’s domicile while researching and devising his ground breaking theories of psychology.

The couch under discussion — draped in rugs and looking comfortable, cozy and inviting — is unsurprisingly famous, considering its critical part during his work. Sadly, this mostly overshadows the fact that the father of psychiatry’s armchair resides in the study. This armchair, green tub appearance, was where he worked, hidden from the occupants of the lounger, while they “free associated”.

Effectively, psychotherapy, easy chairs and all the other notions traditionally tied to techniques present an abundant source of humor for entertainers, performers and so on from the outset, and maybe the smartest of them in this area is Woody Allen, a student, an observer and a patient of analysts — A.K.A. shrinks — for roughly 40 years. “Donnie, your analyst? I call mine Dr. Chomsky, you know? Either that or he hits me with a ruler.”

“I worked with Freud in Vienna. We broke over the concept of penis envy. Freud felt that it should be limited to women.”

There are many others who unearth hilarity in therapists, psychotherapy and their settees.

Songwriter Abbey Lincoln said: “I don’t have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.”

Fictional psychiatrist Niles Crane said: “I really must run. I’m due at my sexual addiction group, and I don’t like to leave them alone for too long.”

Michelle Pfeiffer offers: “Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we’ve set aside enough money for our kid’s therapy.”

We should really leave the final word to John Wayne, who had little time for sofas and psychiatry: “I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst’s couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.”

The Chesterfield, the Knole, together with the chaise longue remain a trio of couch style standouts that, irrespective of being generations out of their heyday, have become greatly popular with the furniture purchasing public and the starting point for a great number of modernized variants. The Knole is named for an exquisite settee found in Knole House of Kent, where the Sackvilles reside. It boasts substantial sidepieces, a tall back piece along with drop-down sides which are kept together with braid. These furnish the couch itself a sort of impermanent semblance, generating an impression that the couch may collapse when used. Naturally, these drop-down sides have a beneficial purpose — drop them down to make a bed (or, at least, this was the initial purpose, however, this is seldom if ever done now). On the other hand, the chaise longue could be described as a hybrid bed/couch, effectively a plain recliner with armrests & leg support as well as a canted back. Varieties of this traditional chair draw their inspiration from Egyptian, South American and Roman designs, and also Chinese design.

The model we are most familiar with has its roots in the time of Louis XV, which used rich fabrics, gilt and mahogany to present an atmosphere of remarkable opulence. Today the Corbusier Chaise Longue is an immediately recognizable classic, devised in the Roaring Twenties and made of tubular stainless steel and leather.

In comparison, the Chesterfield elicits a rural estate setting, guaranteeing your comfort (and only looking better as its calfskin ages).

Not many couches can compare to its stylishness and sophistication. It’s widely held that the couch was named for the fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773). Phillip might have ordered the original such sofa, linking himself to the famous settee ever since.

The style endures and, befittingly, the name of Phillip Stanhope.

One of the many wonderful technologies to be designed at the height of the enmity between NATO and the former Soviet Union is, undoubtedly, the global positioning system. Nevertheless, for the last three decades, the technology has been available for civilian devices. It will come as no surprise that the technology has become an important feature on most mobile phones. In every city worldwide, millions of commuters depend upon GPS to get them from A to B with this stress free navigation solution. Fortunately, the vast majority of automobiles either offer an integrated satellite navigation system included as standard or available as an affordable option. GPS technology isn’t just for cars and trucks — aircraft and ships and submarines rely on it as well. A large network of solar powered satellites means that irrespective of whether you are travelling on land, at sea or even in the air, with a simple device you can find out precisely where you are. A satellite navigation system in a vehicle whether portable or integrated, lets the driver avoid heavy traffic, road building and also to see the placement of gas stations.

People all over the world enjoy the benefits of gps navigation. Anybody who might need to know their location at any given time (from hunters to sales representatives) or to find a particular site or a person (from miners to the coast guard) can use GPS to make their task quicker. The falling prices of these devices has lead to games where players can download information and join thousands of others geocaching. The game is a sophisticated version of hide and seek, which uses exact GPS signals to help the players track down a cache.

On the other hand, GPS is a life saving tool. Fire fighters and the police use it all day long not just to locate an accident, but to get there by the most effective means. If an incident happens at sea or in poor weather navigation systems often make an enormous difference to the success of any rescue operation.

The possibilities for taking advantage of GPS software in the scientific disciplines are immense, whether it is watching volcanoes or tracking animals. Even the size of the earth and the path of hurricanes can be accurately tracked. At the end of the day, GPS has become an invention which no-one can afford to be without.