Piece of seating furniture and furniture fitting therefor

A piece of seating furniture having the following features:

• a. the piece of seating furniture has a seat-base segment having a seat base, and
• b. the piece of seating furniture has a leg rest having two leg-rest segments, specifically an upper-leg segment and a lower-leg segment, and
• c. the leg rest is displaceable between a stowed position and a usage position, wherein the leg rest in the stowed position is disposed below the seat-base segment, and wherein the upper sides of the leg-rest segments in the usage position are disposed in a flush alignment with the seat base of the seat-base segment, and their respective upper sides point upward, and
• d. in the stowed position, the leg-rest segments are located below the seat-base segment, wherein the lower sides of the leg-rest segments in the stowed position point upward in the direction of the seat-base segment, and
• e. for converting the piece of seating furniture from the stowed position to the usage position, the piece of seating furniture has a drive gear mechanism which converts the movement of a drive member into a motion sequence of the leg rest, in which the leg-rest segments during the movement to the usage position are first angled relative to one another and subsequently moved to the flush arrangement of the usage position.