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Wood (original) wood, plastic, metal (contemporary) 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. The chair was invented by Thomas Lee between 1900 and 1903 in Westport, New York ...
Known for. Inventor of the Gong and Signal Chair and second black woman to receive a patent in the United States. Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin (September 16, 1861 – 1947) was an American schoolteacher and inventor. In 1888, she obtained a patent for the Gong and Signal Chair for Hotels, becoming the second African-American woman to receive a patent.
3107 chair (Model 3107 chair) designed by Arne Jacobsen. 40/4 (forty-in-four) stacking Chair designed by David Rowland, 1964. 406 Aalto armchair, designed by Alvar Aalto in 1938 (IKEA sells a similar design as the Poäng lounge chair) 601 Chair designed by Dieter Rams. 620 Chair designed by Dieter Rams for Vitsœ.
Make no mistake, the Adirondack chair isn't anything new to the slew of outdoor essentials.In fact, when designer Thomas Lee first introduced his wooden marvel to the world in 1903, it was met ...
Thomas Elkins (1818 – August 10, 1900) [1] was an African-American dentist, abolitionist, surgeon, pharmacist, and inventor. He lived in Albany, New York, for most of his life, but travelled during his service as the medical examiner of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts infantries and visited Liberia. Notable inventions include patented ...
Rustic coffee table with cedar and mountain laurel branches. The rustic furniture movement developed during the mid- to late-1800s. John Gloag in A Short Dictionary Of Furniture says that "chairs and seats, with the framework carved to resemble the branches of trees, were made in the middle years of the 18th century, and there was a popular fashion for this naturalistic rustic furniture" in ...
The Highland Dunes Adirondack Chair regularly retails for $135, but during Way Day, Wayfair's biggest sale of the year, it's only $69 That's a great deal, especially considering this style of seat ...
University of Southampton. Website. w3.org /People /Berners-Lee. Signature. Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), [1] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP.