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The Adirondack chair is an outdoor lounge chair with wide armrests, a tall slatted back, and a seat that is higher in the front than the back. [1] Its name references the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York .
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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, [32] 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
Adirondack Canoe Classic, a three-day, 90-mile (140 km) canoe race from Old Forge to Saranac Lake (also known as the "90-miler") Adirondack chair, a type of chair used primarily in an outdoors setting; Adirondack Community College (US), a two-year college located in the state of New York; Adirondack Experience, a museum
Woodworking is depicted in many extant ancient Egyptian drawings, and a considerable amount of ancient Egyptian furniture (such as stools, chairs, tables, beds, chests) have been preserved. Tombs represent a large collection of these artifacts and the inner coffins found in the tombs were also made of wood.
Faldstool displayed at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy Reconstruction faldstool, folded and unfolded Ecclesiastical faldstool, 1400s-1500s. Faldstool (from the O.H. Ger. falden or falten, "to fold," and stuol, Mod. Ger. Stuhl, "stool"; from the medieval Latin faldistolium derived, through the old form fauesteuil, from the Mod. Fr. fauteuil) is a portable folding chair, used by a bishop when ...
Tales of these Adirondack getaways started being published in books which became very popular with the general public. Demand for these permanent structures increased as more people migrated to the area, and soon, log camps featuring multiple buildings all in one area had been established and were known as 'commercial camps'.
William Henry Harrison Murray, known as "Adirondack Murray" Vladimir Nabokov, resident of Ithaca; Solomon Northup of Saratoga Springs, who published an account of his abduction and ordeal entitled "Twelve Years a Slave" in 1853. The book was written with the help of David Wilson, a local writer.