Abstract: A piece of furniture convertible from a chair to a cot and vice versa comprising connected inner and outer carriages which can telescope out of a frame from a chair position within the frame to a cot position outside the frame and having a head cushion hinged to the inner carriage and guidingly received in a frame guide such that it is movable from a stowed position behind a fixed back cushion when the inner carriage is in the chair position to a cot position when the inner carriage is moved into the cot position thereof. The outer carriage has a cushion carrier frame carrying a fixed cushion and a folding cushion, which carrier frame is connected to the outer carriage by a lever system for adjusting the carrier frame from a lowered position when the carriages are in the chair position to a raised position when the carriages are moved into the cot position.