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Castle designed this settee for the vestibule outside Gannett's boardroom. After complaints from a secretary who suffered repeated injuries from the outward sloping arm supports, Gannett commissioned Castle to do a new version. This first settee was later gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1977. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, commissioned a version of this piece in 1979 (see Boston Two-Seater, III.135).