Shen Ring Couch

A Couch/bench inspired by the Egyptian Shen Ring, a circle with a line tangent to it, represented in hieroglyphs as a stylized loop of a rope. The word shen itself means, encircle, while the shen ring represented eternal protection.
The symbol could be stretched to contain other objects, which were then understood as being eternally protected by the shen ring. In its elongated form the shen ring became the cartouche.