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2. Rocking chair - Wikipedia

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   Rocking chair. A Thonet rocking chair. A rocking chair or rocker is a type of chair with two curved bands (also known as rockers) attached to the bottom of the legs, connecting the legs on each side to each other. The rockers contact the floor at only two points, giving the occupant the ability to rock back and forth by shifting their weight or ...

3. Campeche chair - Wikipedia

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   A mahogany Campeche chair from the collection of the Louisiana State Museum. The Campeche (or butaca, as it is called in Spanish) is a reclining, non-folding, sling-seat chair with a distinctive side-placed curule base. In North America, they are named for the Campeche region of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, and were popular in the Americas ...

4. Rex (chair) - Wikipedia

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   The Rex Chair is a Slovenian wood chair in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, designed in 1952 by Slovene architect and designer Niko Kralj (1920–2013). [1] He would win the Prešeren Prize for the Rex chair. In 2012, it was given a permanent place in the Designmuseum, Denmark, the largest museum of design in ...

5. Hans Wegner - Wikipedia

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   Hans Jørgensen Wegner (April 2, 1914 – January 26, 2007) was a Danish furniture designer. [4] His work, along with a concerted effort from several of his manufacturers, [5] contributed to the international popularity of mid-century Danish design. His style is often described as Organic Functionality, a modernist school with emphasis on ...

6. Four-bar linkage - Wikipedia

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   Four-bar linkage. In the study of mechanisms, a four-bar linkage, also called a four-bar, is the simplest closed- chain movable linkage. It consists of four bodies, called bars or links, connected in a loop by four joints. Generally, the joints are configured so the links move in parallel planes, and the assembly is called a planar four-bar ...

7. History of the chair - Wikipedia

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   History of the chair. Chairs are known to have existed since Ancient Egypt and have been widespread in the Western world from the Greeks and Romans onwards. They were in common use in China from the twelfth century, and were used by the Aztecs. Surviving examples of chairs from medieval Europe are often ornate works associated with royalty and ...