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2. Moving sofa problem - Wikipedia

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   In mathematics, the moving sofa problem or sofa problem is a two-dimensional idealization of real-life furniture-moving problems and asks for the rigid two-dimensional shape of the largest area that can be maneuvered through an L-shaped planar region with legs of unit width. [1] The area thus obtained is referred to as the sofa constant.

3. Davenport (sofa) - Wikipedia

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   Line art drawing of a davenport. Davenport was the name of a series of sofas made by the Massachusetts furniture manufacturer A. H. Davenport and Company, now defunct.Due to the popularity of the furniture at the time, the name davenport became a genericized trademark in parts of the United States.

4. Brynmawr Furniture - Wikipedia

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   The available workers were inexperienced and lack skills, so Paul Matt designed a range of simple furniture which could be made well. The first order was for 400 chairs for a Quaker school in York, and production began. [1] The cost of each chair was £1 (equivalent to £80 in 2023), and the profits were used for new equipment and machinery. [2 ...

5. Le Corbusier's Furniture - Wikipedia

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   In the book he defined three different furniture types: type-needs, type-furniture, and human-limb objects. He defined human-limb objects as: "Extensions of our limbs and adapted to human functions that are type-needs and type-functions, therefore type-objects and type-furniture. The human-limb object is a docile servant.

6. Knole Settee - Wikipedia

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   The sofa or couch may have been made for the royal family and brought to Knole sometime in the 17th or 18th century. It was probably originally described as a couch or couch chair. [ 5 ] A London furniture maker and upholsterer, Ralph Grynder , made couches for Henrietta Maria in the 1630s, and these were supplied with suites of matching chairs ...

7. International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts

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   The most unusual, most modest, and, in the end, probably the most influential French pavilion was that of the magazine L'Esprit Nouveau, directed by Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier. They had founded the Purist movement 1918, with the goal of eliminating all decoration in architecture, and replacing hand-made furniture with machine-made ...