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The Racine Camp Furniture & Novelty Manufacturing Co. was founded in 1890, to manufacture furniture for camping such as tents, folding chairs, and sleeping bags. Supposedly, after the company's furniture won a gold medal at the 1893 World's Fair exhibition in Chicago, the name was changed to the Gold Medal Camp Furniture Company. [3]
Folding chair, collapses in some way for easy storage and transport. Various folding chairs have their own names (e.g., deckchair, director's chair), but a chair described simply as a folding chair folds a rigid frame and seat around a transverse axis so that the seat becomes parallel to the back and the frame collapses with a scissors action.
Statue of a director′s chair in Hong Kong. Frame of the folding stool of Guldhøj, Denmark (Nordic Bronze Age, 2nd half of 14th century B.C.) [1] Japanese traditional folding stool. A director's chair [2] [3] is a lightweight chair that folds side-to-side with a scissors action. The seat and back are made of canvas or a similar strong fabric ...
A typical modern folding chair. A folding chair is a type of folding furniture, a light, portable chair that folds flat or to a smaller size. Many modern styles of folding chairs can be stored in a stack, in a row, or on a cart. They may be combined with a folding table.
An animation gif of a typical camping chair. A camping chair, or camp chair, is a lightweight folding chair with a canvas seat and backrest, which is suitable for use in temporary quarters, typically outdoor setting like camping on holiday, by being portable and easy to set up. [1] [2] A camping stool is similar to a camping chair, but lacks ...
Garden furniture is often sold as a patio set consisting of a table, four or six chairs, and a parasol. A picnic table is used for the purpose of eating a meal outdoors. [4] Long chairs, referred to as chaise longue, are also common items. Recently seating furniture has been used for conversation areas using items like couches. [5]
Side view of a Cesca chair. The Cesca chair (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ s k ə /) is a chair design created in 1928 by the Hungarian-American architect and designer Marcel Breuer. It consists of a tubular steel frame and a rattan seat and backing. [1] [2] The design was named as a tribute to Breuer’s adopted daughter Francesca (nicknamed Cesca). [3]
Among the many important designs originating there are the molded-plywood DCW (Dining Chair Wood) and DCM (Dining Chair Metal with a plywood seat) (1945); Eames Lounge Chair (1956); the Aluminum Group furniture (1958); the Eames Chaise (1968), designed for Charles's friend and film director, Billy Wilder; [9] the Solar Do-Nothing Machine (1957 ...