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Occasional furniture refers to small pieces of furniture that can be put to varied uses as the occasion demands. [1] Items such as small tables , nightstands , chests , commodes , and easily moved chairs are usually included in this category.
Side chair, a chair with a seat and back but without armrests; often matched with a dining table or used as an occasional chair; Sit-stand chair, [31] normally used with a height-adjustable desk, allows the person to lean against this device and be partially supported; Sling chair, a suspended, free-swinging chair hanging from a ceiling
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Chair, c. 1772, mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, height: 97.2 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) A chair is a type of seat, typically designed for one person and consisting of one or more legs, a flat or slightly angled seat and a back-rest.
The material of the chair, Zenaloy, which is polyester reinforced with fiberglass, was first developed by the US Army during World War II. [4] Using this material, Ray and Charles Eames designed a prototype chair for the 1948 ‘International Competition of Low-Cost Furniture Design’ held by the Museum of Modern Art.
Additional occasional seating appeared in the latter centuries of evolution of the coach and carriage.The 1865 edition of Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language defines a dickie seat or rumble as "A boot [note 1] with a seat above it for servants, behind a carriage."
Turned stools were the progenitor of both the turned chair and the Windsor chair. The simplest stool was like the Windsor chair: a solid plank seat had three legs set into it with round mortice and tenon joints. These simple stools probably used the green woodworking technique of setting already-dried legs into a still-green seat. As the seat ...
Sitting room furnished with federal furniture, Winterthur Museum, New Castle County, Delaware, U.S. Federal furniture refers to American furniture produced in the federal style period, which lasted from approximately 1789 to 1823 and is itself named after the Federalist Era in American politics (ca. 1788-1800). [1]