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  2. Curule seat - Wikipedia

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    Curule seat. A curule seat probably designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, made in carved wood and gilded ca. 1810 in Berlin, later restored and reupholstered by a private dealer. A curule seat is a design of a (usually) foldable and transportable chair noted for its uses in Ancient Rome and Europe through to the 20th century.

  3. Folding chair - Wikipedia

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    A folding chair of ebony and ivory with gold fittings was found in Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt. Folding chairs were already used in the Nordic Bronze Age, Ancient Egypt, Minoan Greece and Ancient Rome. The frame was mostly made of wood, and seldom made of metal. The wood was inlaid with artistic carvings, gilded, and decorated with ivory.

  4. History of the chair - Wikipedia

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    The curule chair was originally very similar in form to the modern folding chair, but eventually received a good deal of ornament. [3] The most famous of the very few chairs which have come down from a remote antiquity is the reputed Chair of Saint Peter in St Peter's Basilica at Rome.

  5. Meet the American who invented the folding beach chair ...

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    Frisbee Fred was born on Jan. 23, 1920; folding chair Fred was born on Jan. 23, 1922. Both men conceived their inventions at the beach – with the women they married.

  6. X-chair - Wikipedia

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    A type of folding chair with a frame like an X viewed from the front or the side originated in medieval Italy. Also known as a Savonarola or Dante chair in Italy, [1] or a Luther chair in Germany, the X-chair was a light and practical form that spread through Renaissance Europe. In England, the Glastonbury chair made an X-shape by crossing the ...

  7. List of chairs - Wikipedia

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    Folding chair, collapses in some way for easy storage and transport. Various folding chairs have their own names (e.g., deckchair, director's chair), but a chair described simply as a folding chair folds a rigid frame and seat around a transverse axis so that the seat becomes parallel to the back and the frame collapses with a scissors action.

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