West Coast Private Collection, as purchased from Sotheby's, Property of a New York Private Collector, as part of a bedroom suite designed by Elsie de Wolfe. 

In her own words, "STOOLS AND BENCHES. I often wonder, when I grope my way through drawing-rooms crowded and jammed with chairs and sofas, why more women do not realize the advantages of stools and benches. A well-made stool is doubly useful: it may be used to sit upon or it may be used to hold a tray, or whatever you please. It is really preferable to a small table because it is not always full of a nondescript collection of ornaments, which seems to be the fate of all small tables. It has also the advantage of being low enough to push under a large table, when need be, and it occupies much less space than a chair apparently (not actually) because it has no back." [Elsie de Wolfe, The House in Good Taste, New York, The Century Co., 1913, as turned into an eBook by The Project Gutenberg, 14715.].