There are so many different terms in the outdoor furniture world that I sometimes have a hard time keeping them straight. It can be difficult to remember what all the vocabulary means, and especially to mentally separate terms that refer to similar pieces of furniture. For example, the tete-a-tete and the settee both refer to outdoor furniture seating. But what is the difference between the two?
According the Merriam-Webster, a tete-a-tete is “a short piece of furniture (as a sofa) intended to seat two persons especially facing each other.” It literally means, in French, head to head. Most tete-a-tetes have two separate chairs, angled to face each other, with a table of some sort in between.
A settee, on the other hand, is a much broader term. Merriam-Webster defined it either as “a long seat with a back” or “a medium-sized sofa with arms and a back.” In other words, the term “settee” refers to a bench with a back and arms. What makes it different than a tete-a-tete is that a settee seats multiple people on the same surface, whereas a tete-a-tete has separate seating surfaces in the same piece of furniture.
According the Merriam-Webster, a tete-a-tete is “a short piece of furniture (as a sofa) intended to seat two persons especially facing each other.” It literally means, in French, head to head. Most tete-a-tetes have two separate chairs, angled to face each other, with a table of some sort in between.
A settee, on the other hand, is a much broader term. Merriam-Webster defined it either as “a long seat with a back” or “a medium-sized sofa with arms and a back.” In other words, the term “settee” refers to a bench with a back and arms. What makes it different than a tete-a-tete is that a settee seats multiple people on the same surface, whereas a tete-a-tete has separate seating surfaces in the same piece of furniture.
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