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Variants of the one-piece plastic chair designed by Canadian D.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]
The rear legs sweep continuously upward to support a wide concave backrest like a curved tablet, which supports the sitter's shoulders, or which may be low enough to lean an elbow on. The long and elegant curve was quite difficult to create [ 3 ] and may have been carved from a single piece of wood, [ 4 ] or by using mortise and tenon joints ...
Cantilever chair, has no back legs; for support its seat and back cantilever off the top of the front legs (see: Cesca chair) B55 Cantilever chair by Marcel Breuer; Captain's chair, was originally a low-backed wooden armchair; [12] today the term is often applied to adjustable individual seats in a car with arm rests
Face the back of the chair for added support, or face away so your back rests against the chair. Sit tall and engage your glutes. Remain in the seated position as you focus on externally rotating ...
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 back legs are plain. A club foot is a type of rounded foot for a piece of furniture, such as the end of a chair leg. [1] [2] It is also known by the alternative names pad foot [3] [4] [5] and Dutch foot, [4] [5] the latter sometimes corrupted into duck foot. [6] Such feet are rounded flat pads or disks at the end of furniture legs. Pad feet ...
The report was stimulated by an increase in lift chair claims between 1984 and 1985 from 200,000 to 700,000. A New York Times article stated that aggressive TV ads were pushing consumers to inquire about lift chairs and, once consumers called in, a form was sent to them for their physicians to sign. Some companies would ship lift chairs before ...
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 ...