Chenil is a French word meaning ‘kennel,’ however, it is also applied to a dog bed or dog house. Chenils were particularly popular among aristocratic pet owners in 18th century France, and they were constructed with the same luxury and opulence as the other household furniture. This mahogany stool-shaped chenil in the Carlton Hobbs LLC collection, circa 1775, takes the form of a footstool and is more austere and neoclassical in its design than some of the more ostentatious contemporaneous versions.
