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Variants of the one-piece plastic chair designed by Canadian Douglas C. Simpson in 1946 went into production with Allibert Group and Grosfillex Group in the 1970s. [2] Other sources name the French engineer Henry Massonnet from Nurieux-Volognat with his "Fauteuil 300" from 1972 as the inventor of the monobloc. [3]
Removing the armrests compromised structural stability of the chair, so two cross bindings were added between the back legs for strength. Model 5654 (1956): A collapsible variation model of 120 is the best-known chair in the REX family and is still being produced today as a low armchair intended to be used in covered areas.
The chair is notably the oldest (excluding royal chairs) surviving chair of its style from Egypt. [1] The seat of the chair is a reproduction made from woven reeds, as the original seat has long since decayed. An image of Reniseneb seated in a similar chair is carved into the backrest of the chair, and its feet take the form of carved lion claws.
[2] The chair in the illustration consists of a wooden flat-arched back rail carved with a coat-of-arms in low relief and connected to the back of the straight arms of the chair and a seat made of narrowly fitted wooden slats. The wood used in the construction of the chair is the typical walnut, as in other gothic and renaissance furniture.
Monobloc (chair), a type of light-weight chair made of one piece of injection-moulded plastic; Also: Monobloc, a 2005 Argentine film; Antoinette Monobloc, a pre-WWI French military monoplane; Monoblock LNB, a type of low-noise block downconverter
The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) is a large museum located in Old Cairo, a district of Cairo, Egypt.. Partially opened in 2017, the museum was officially inaugurated on 3 April 2021, with the moving of 22 mummies, including 18 kings and four queens, from the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo, in an event termed the Pharaohs' Golden Parade. [1]
The Aeron chair was a success and its sales far exceeded Herman Miller's expectations. [2] Aeron chairs were popular in the offices of Internet startups in the late 1990s, and became associated with the dot-com bubble . [ 15 ]
The office of President of Egypt was established in 1953. The president is the head of state of Egypt and the Supreme Commander of the Egyptian Armed Forces. The current president is Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has effectively controlled the country since the 2013 coup d'état, and was officially elected president in 2014.