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Modern furniture - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Contents
1 Influences 1.1 Materials 1.2 African and Asian culture 2 Iconic examples of modern furniture 2.1 Eileen Grey side table 2.2 Barcelona Chair 2.3 Noguchi coffee table 3 Chronology 4 Transitional furniture 5 Modern to contemporary 6 References
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Modern furniture refers to furniture produced from the late 19th century through the present that is influenced by modernism. It was a tremendous departure from all furniture design that had gone before it. Dark or guilded carved wood and richely patterned fabrics gave way to the glittering simplicity and geometry of polished metal. The forms of furniture evolved from visually heavy to visually light.
Influences
Prior to the modernist design movement there was an emphasis on on furniture as ornament, the length of time a piece took to create was often a measure of its value and desirability. During the first half of the 19th Century a new philosophy emerged shifting the emphasis to function and accessibility. Western design generally, whether architectural or design of furniture had for millennia sought to convey an idea of lineage, a connection with tradition and history. The modern movement sought newness, originality, technical innovation, and ultimately the message that it conveyed spoke of the present and the future, rather than of what had gone before it.
Modernist design seems to have evolved out of a combination of influences: Technically innovative materials and manufacturing methods, the new philosophies that emerged from the Werkbund and the Bauhaus School, from exotic foreign inclunces, from Art Nouveau and from the tremendous creativity of the artists and designers of that era.
Materials
The use of new materials, such as steel in its many forms; moulded plywood, such as that used by Charles and Ray Eames; and of course plastics, were formative in the creation of these new designs. They would have been considered pioneering, even shocking in contrast to what came before. This interest in new and innovative materials and methods - produced a certain blending of the disciplines of technology and art. And this became a working philosophy among the members of the Deutscher Werkbund. The Werkbund was a government sponsored organization to promote German art and design around the world. Many of those involved with it including Mies van Der Rohe, Lilly Reich and others, were later involved in the Bauhaus School, and so it is not surprising perhaps that the Bauhaus School took on the mantle of this philosophy. They evolved a particular interest in using these new materials in such a way that they might be mass produced and therefor make good design more accessible to the masses.
African and Asian culture
An aesthetic preference for the baroque and the complex was challenged not only by new materials and the courage and creativity of a few Europeans, but also by the growing access to African and Asian design. In particular the influence of Japanese design is legend: in the last years of the 19th Century the Edo Period in Japan, Japanese isolationist policy began to soften, and trade with the west began in ernest. The artifacts that emerged were striking in their simplicity, their use of solid planes of color without ornament, and contrasting use of pattern. A tremendous fashion for all things Japanese - Japonism - swept Europe. Some say that the western Art Nouveau movement emerged from this influence directly. Designers such as Charles Rennie MacIntosh, Eileen Grey and are known for both their modern and their art deco work, and they and others like Frank Lloyd Wright for example are notable for a certain elegant blending of the two styles.
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Iconic examples of modern furniture
Eileen Grey side table
Designed in 1927 as a bedside table for the guest room in her own home - the unusual asymmetry of this piece is characteristic of her 'non conformist' design style, in both her architectural projects and in her furnitrue. Notably - true to her Bauhaus training this piece also has specific utility, as it can be adjusted such that one can eat breakfast in bed on it, which is believed to be its original purpose.[citation needed]
Barcelona Chair
The Barcelona chair has come to represent the Bauhaus design movement. Many consider it to be functional art, rather than just furniture. Designed by Mies Van Der Rohe and Lily Reich in 1929 for an international design fair in Barcelona, it is said to have been inspired by both the folding chairs of the Pharaohs, and the 'X' shaped footstools of the Romans, and dedicated to the Spanish royal family.
Noguchi coffee table
Isamu Noguchi 1904 - 1988 was a sculptor, architect, furniture and landscape designer. Half American, half Japanese, he is famous for his organic modern forms. The Noguchi Coffee Table - has become famous for its unique and unmistakable simplicity. Refined and at the same time natural, it is one of the most sought after pieces associated with the modern classic furniture movement.
Chronology
Chronologically the design movement that produced modern furnture design, began earlier than one might imagine. Many of its most recognizable personalities were born at the end of the 19th or the very beginning of the 20th centuries.
Mies Ludwig van der Rohe 1886 - 1969
Eileen Grey 1878 - 1976
Le Corbusier 1887 - 1965 (born Charles Edouard Jeanneret)
Lilly Reich 1885 - 1947
They were teaching and studying in Germany and elsewhere in the 1920s and 30s. At among other places the Bauhaus school of art and architecture. The furniture that was produced during this era is today known as Modern Classic Furniture or Mid Century Modern.
Some of the great talents associated with this school are, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lilly Reich, Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier to name but a few. Both the Bauhaus School and the Werkbund, had as their specific creative emphasis the blending of technology, new materials and art.
Transitional furniture
Obviously not all furniture produced since this time is modern, for there is still a tremendous amount of traditional design being reproduced for today's market and then of course there is also an entire breed of design which sits between the two, and is referred to as transitional design. Neither entirely modern or traditional, it seeks to blend elements of multiple styles. It often includes both modern and traditional as well as making visual reference to classical greek form and / or other non western styles (for example: Tribal African pattern, Asian scroll work etc).
Modern to contemporary
Today contemporary furniture designers and manufacturers continue to evolve design. Still seeking new materials, with which to produce unique forms, still employing simplicity and lightness of form, in preference to heavy ornament. And most of all they are still endeavoring to step beyond what has gone before to create entirely new visual experiences for us.
The designs that prompted this paradign shift, were produced in the middle of the 20th century, most of them well before 1960. And yet they are still regarded internationally as symbols of the modern age, the present and perhaps even the future. Modern Classic Furniture became an icon of elegance and sophistication.
References
Bauhaus History Lily Reich Bio Le Corbusier Bio Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_furniture
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Pictures of Modern Furniture
See some beautiful looking modern furniture from Momento Italia A chair shaped like a dolphin – from Interior Mall Pic of a Cairo Modern Wall Unit - from Contemporary Furniture See a unique and modern looking sofa set from Germes Online
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Furniture is the collective term for the movable objects which may support the human body (seating furniture and beds), provide storage, or hold objects on horizontal surfaces above the ground. Storage furniture (which often makes use of doors, drawers, and shelves) is used to hold or contain smaller objects such as clothes, tools, books, and household goods.
Furniture can be a product of artistic design and is considered a form of decorative art. In addition to furniture's functional role, it can serve a symbolic or religious purpose. Domestic furniture works to create, in conjunction with furnishings such as clocks and lighting, comfortable and convenient interior spaces. Furniture can be made from many materials, including metal, plastic, and wood.
Cabinetry and cabinet making are terms for the skillset used in the building of furniture.
Contents
1 History of European furniture 1.1 Shaker furniture 1.2 Art Nouveau 1.3 Arts and Crafts 1.4 Art Deco 1.5 Bauhaus 1.6 Gjernes 2 Selected bibliography 3 See also
History of European furniture
Furniture has been a part of the human experience since the development of non-nomadic cultures. Evidence of furniture from antiquity survives in the form of paintings, such as the wall Murals discovered at Pompeii; sculpture, examples of which have been excavated in Egypt; and extant pieces, such as those found in tombs in Ghiordes, in modern day Turkey. The furniture of the Middle Ages was usually heavy, oak, and ornamented with carved designs. Along with the other arts, the Italian Renaissance of the fourteenth and fifteenth century marked a rebirth in design, often inspired by the Greco-Roman tradition. A similar explosion of design, and renaissance of culture in general, occurred in Northern Europe, starting in the fifteenth century. The seventeenth century, in both Southern and Northern Europe, was characterized by opulent, and often gilded Baroque designs that frequently incoporated a profusion of vegetal and scrolling ornament. Starting in the eighteenth century, furniture designs began to develop more rapidly. Although there were some styles that belonged primarily to one nation, such as Palladianism in Great Britain, others, such as the Rococo and Neoclassicism were perpetuated throughout Western Europe. The nineteenth is usually defined by concurrent revival styles, including Gothic, Neoclassicism, and Rococo. The design reform of the late century, introduced the Aesthetic movement and the Arts and Crafts movement. Art Nouveau was influenced by both of these movements. The first three-quarters of the twentieth century are often seen as the march towards Modernism. Art Deco, De Stijl, Bauhaus, Weiner Werkstatte, and Vienna Secession designers all worked to some degree within the Modernist idiom. Postmodern design, intersecting the Pop art movement, gained steam in the 1960s and 70s, promoted by designers such as the Italy-based Memphis movement.
Shaker furniture
A distinctive style developed by the Shakers in the late 18th century, Shaker furniture was inspired by their ascetic beliefs and widely admired for its simplicity, innovative joinery, quality, and functionality. Shakers made furniture for their own use, as well as for sale to the general public. Many surviving examples of Shaker furniture include such popular forms as Shaker tables, chairs, rocking chairs, and bed frames.
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau in architecture and interior design eschewed the eclectic historicism of the Victorian era. Though Art Nouveau designers selected and "modernized" some of the more abstract elements of Rococo style, such as flame and shell textures, in place of the historically-derived and basically tectonic or realistic naturalistic ornament of high Victorian styles, Art Nouveau advocated the use of highly-stylized nature as the source of inspiration and expanded the "natural" repertoire to embrace seaweed, grasses, and insects. Correspondingly organic forms, curved lines, especially floral or vegetal, and the like, were used.
Arts and Crafts
The Arts and Crafts movement originated in mid-nineteenth-century Britain, with art/designers such as John Ruskin and William Morris. It reached the height of its popularity in the last years of the nineteenth century and the early years of the 20th century in both Britain and the United States, where is was also known as American Craftsman, or Craftsman style. The Arts and Crafts ideology promoted the role of the craftsman, and looked to Gothic and Medieval styles as an antidote to the superficial, fussy, and eclectic look of Victorian-era design.
Art Deco
Art Deco is characterized by use of materials such as aluminum, stainless steel, lacquer, inlaid wood, sharkskin (shagreen), and zebraskin. It also features the bold use of zigzag and stepped forms, and sweeping curves (unlike the sinuous curves of the Art Nouveau), chevron patterns, and the sunburst motif. Some of these motifs were ubiquitous — for example the sunburst motif was used in such varied contexts as a lady's shoe, a radiator grille, the auditorium of the Radio City Music Hall and the spire of the Chrysler Building.
Bauhaus
The Bauhaus movement's goals of fine design and mass production are well represented in furniture design. The Cantilever chair by Dutch designer Mart Stam, which relies on the tensile properties of steel; the Wassily Chair designed by Marcel Breuer; and the Barcelona chair by German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe are well-known examples.
Gjernes
A style following the methods and aesthetics of Liv Mildrid Gjernes, and primarily popular in Scandinavia.
Selected bibliography
Gloag, John. A Short Dictionary of Furniture. New York: Holt, Rhinehart, and Winston, 1965. Hayward, Charles H., Antique or Fake?: The Making of Old Furniture. London: Evans Brothers, 1971.
See also
Decorative art History of decorative arts Virginia furniture Furnishings Grand Rapids, Michigan, Furniture City List of furniture designers List of chairs Self-assembly furniture
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List of furniture designers - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A list of notable furniture designers, cabinet makers and people involved in that trade.
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Alvar Aalto Eero Aarnio Robert Adam Brad Ascalon Archizoom Associati Jean Avisse Fred Baier Peter Behrens Mario Bellini Harry Bertoia Mario Botta André Charles Boulle Matthew Boulton Marcel Breuer Jeremy Broun Donald Chadwick William Chambers Aaron Chapin Eliphalet Chapin Pierre Chareau Thomas Chippendale Thomas Chippendale, the younger Giovanni Cipriani Antonio Citterio Nigel Coates Joe Colombo David Colwell Henry Copland Le Corbusier Ilan Dei Niels Diffrient Nanna Ditzel Tom Dixon Ray and Charles Eames Charles Eastlake Harvey Ellis Pierre François Léonard Fontaine Norman Foster Frank O. Gehry Peter Ghyczy Grinling Gibbons Ernest Gimson John Goddard Eileen Gray Greene and Greene Martin Grierson Walter Gropius Hector Guimard Scott P Harper Ambrose Heal George Hepplewhite Matthew Hilton Josef Hoffman Thomas Hope Simon Howkins William Ince Arne Jacobsen Inigo Jones Finn Juhl Angela Kauffmann William Kent Poul Kjærholm Florence Knoll Shiro Kuramata
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Charles-Honoré Lannuier Paul Laszlo Erwine and Estelle Laverne Mathias Locke Max Longin Samuel Loomis Aldolf Loos John Loudon Ross Lovegrove Michele de Lucchi Charles Rennie Mackintosh Vico Magistretti John Makepeace Daniel Marot Bruno Mathson Jayme Mazzochi Séan McCurdy Clement Meadmore Alessandro Mendini Herman Miller Carlo Mollino William Morris Jasper Morrison George Nelson Marc Newson Isamu Noguchi Jean Francis Oeben (also Jean-François Oeben) Verner Panton Pierre Paulin Charlotte Perriand Jorge Pensi Charles Percier Gaitano Pesce Alan Peters Duncan Phyfe Giancarlo Piretti Jean Prouvé Lilly Reich Jean Henri Riesener Gerrit Rietveld Ludwig Mies van der Rohe David Rowland Eero Saarinen Rolf Sachs David Savage Sergio Savarese George Seddon Maarten Van Severen Thomas Shearer Thomas Sheraton Bořek Šípek George Smith Ettore Sottsass Mart Stam Philippe Starck Gustav Stickley Leopold Stickley and John George Stickley Bill Stumpf George Summers Sympson John Townsend Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Henry van de Velde William Vile Otto Wagner Hans J. Wegner Robert Wettstein Frank Lloyd Wright
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The following is a partial list of chair types, with internal or external cross references about most of the chairs.
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The Aalto armchair 406 was designed by Alvar Aalto in 1938. IKEA sells a strangely similar design as the Poang lounge chair.
An Adirondack chair is a non-adjustable wooden outdoor lounge chair. In Canada, it is often called a "Muskoka chair" after that recreational region in southern Ontario.
An Aeron chair is an ergonomic trademarked chair.
An armchair has armrests for comfort. Couches, sofas, etc., often have armrests.
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Barcelona chair by the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.A Ball chair designed by Finnish furniture designer Eero Aarnio in 1966.
A barber's chair swivels and has easily adjusted heights to make it easy for the barber. It may also recline for washing hair. It typically has footrests as the height may be adjusted and raise the patron's feet off the floor. For children's barbershops, the chairs may come in fanciful shapes such as horses and cars to distract the children while their hair is cut.
A Barcelona chair is a proprietary chair designed in 1929 by the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and widely copied since. It is characterized by leather upholstery, an angled seat and back without armrests, and X-shaped steel legs.
A barrel chair is a chair with a high round back like half a barrel. It is large and upholstered.
barrel chair and stools, restored to how they appeared c. 1465A bar stool is a tall, narrow stool designed for seating at a bar or counter.
A beach chair is a special chair designed to provide comfort and protection from sun, wind, rain, and sand on beaches frequented by tourists.
A bean bag chair can be composed of various materials including faux leather, cord, cotton or leather. Whilst in the 80's they were filled with foam chips, they now use polystyrene bead. New styles of bean bags are always being developed - popular models today are bean bag chairs, sofas, poufs, teardrop, children's and even ones to suit your cat or dog.
A bench is a simple, often backless device, typically for more than one person to sit on. Benches often refer to simple, longer tables or similar longer flat surfaces to place things on or work on.
A Brewster Chair is a style of upright, turned, wooden armchair made in the mid-17th century in New England. It was named after Pilgrim and colonial leader William Brewster of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
A Bubble chair is designed by Eero Aarnio in 1968 in Finland. A modernist classic
A butterfly chair is composed of a single piece of fabric suspended from a light metal frame.
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A cantilever chair has no back legs, relying for support on the tensile properties of the material from which it is made.
A captain's chair was originally a low-backed wooden armchair. Today it is often applied to adjustable individual seats in a car with arm rests.
Chaise longue. A chaise longue (French for "long chair") is a chair with a seat long enough to completely support its user's legs.
A club chair is a plush easy chair with a low back. The heavy sides form armrests that are usually as high as the back. The club chair evolved into its present-day form from the gentlemen's clubs that sprouted into existence in the fashionable urban areas of 1850s England.
A Cogswell chair was a brand of upholstered easy chairs. It has a sloping back and curved and ornamental front legs. The armrests are open underneath.
A corner chair was made to fit into a corner. It has a rectangular base with a high back on two adjacent sides. One sits with legs straddling a corner of the base.
A "Caquetoire" also known as a conversation chair, used in the European Renaissance, was developed for woman because it was wider so womans fashions at the time could fit into it. You would notice this in the "U" shaped arms.
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Deck chairs - A deck chair is a folding chair with a fabric or vinyl back and seat. It may have an extended seat that is meant to be used as a leg rest and may have armrests. It originally was designed for passenger lounging while aboard ocean liners or ships.
Dentist chairs are deeply reclining chairs to allow the dentist easy access to the patient's mouth. The reclining position adjusts as well as the overall height of the chair. Associated with the chair are usually a variety of dental equipment, often including a small tap and sink for the patient to rinse his or her mouth.
A director's chair is a folding chair used by movie directors. It folds side-to-side and can fold that way because the seat and back are usually fabric, typically canvas. The back is usually low and there are usually armrests. The design goes back to the 19th century.
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An easy chair is any large comfortable armchair. It is typically upholstered.
The Eames chair is a trademark for molded plywood chairs, contoured to fit the shape of a person.
An Egg (chair) is a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen that resembles an egg or womb.
An electric chair is a device for capital punishment by electrocution. It is a high-backed chair with arms, and is usually made of oak.
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A fighting chair is a chair on a boat used by anglers to catch large saltwater fish. The chair typically swivels and has a harness to keep the angler strapped in should the fish tug hard on the line.
Folding chair collapse the back to the seat. Some further collapse the feet up to the back. This feature is useful for mobility and storage. Folding chairs are typically designed to stack on top of each other when folded and may come with special trolleys to move stacks of folded chairs. Stacking chairs simply stack for storage and do not collapse.
A friendship bench is a special place in a school playground where a child can go when he or she wants someone to talk to.
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Garden Egg chair designed by Peter Ghyczy is a modernist classic
A Glastonbury chair is a wooden folding chair
A glider offers the same motions as a rocking chair but without the dangers. A frame rests on the floor and the chair is supported by swing arms within the frame so that moving parts are less accessible.
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A high chair is a children's chair to raise them to the height of adults for feeding. They typically come with a detachable tray so that the child can sit apart from the main table. Booster chairs raise the height of children on regular chairs so they can eat at the main dining table. Some high chairs are clamped directly to the table and thus are more portable.
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Plastic inflatable chairs are usually children's toys. Ikea briefly marketed them as serious furniture upholstered in fabric. Some are designed for use as floating lounge chairs in swimming pools.
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A Jack and Jill chair is similar to the Adirondack chair, but consists of two of them joined in the middle by a table.
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Kneeling chairs or knee-sit chairs [13] are chairs that are meant to support someone kneeling. This is purportedly better for the back than sitting all day. The main seat is sloped forward at the about 30 degrees so that the person would normally slide off, but there is a knee rest to keep the person in place.
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A lawn chair is usually a light, folding chair for outdoor use on soft surfaces. The left and right legs are joined along the ground into a single foot to make a broader contact area with the ground. Individual feet would otherwise dig into soft grass.
A LoveSac, produced by LoveSac Corporation, is similar to a bean bag chair but is filled with shredded DuraFoam.
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A massage chair has electromechanical devices to massage the occupant. Another kind of massage chair is one used by a therapist on which the client sits in an inverted position with the back facing the massage therapist. There is a headrest like that of the common massage table for the face.
A Morris chair was a proprietary easy chair with adjustable back, cushions, and armrests.
A Muskoka chair is another name for an Adirondack chair.
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The No. 14 chair is the most famous bentwood sidechair originally made by the Thonet chair company of Germany in the 19th century, and widely copied and popular today.
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An office chair typically swivels, tilts, and rolls about on casters, or small wheels. It may be very plushly upholstered and in leather and thus characterized as an executive chair, or come with a low back and be called a steno chair. Office chairs often have a number of ergonomic adjustments: seat height, armrest height and width, and back reclining tension.
An ottoman is a thick cushion used as a seat or a low stool, or as a rest for the feet of a seated person.
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"Pop" (2005), A whimsical variation of a patio chair by the American industrial designer Brad Ascalon.A papasan chair is a large, rounded, bowl-shaped chair with an adjustable angle similar to that of a futon. The bowl rests in an upright frame made of sturdy wicker or wood.
A patio chair is any outdoor chair meant for use on a hard surface. (Contrast with lawn chairs.) They are designed so as to not collect water and dry quickly after rain.
A potty chair often abbreviated simply as "potty" is a training toilet for children.
A pushchair is a British English term for a stroller.
A Poofbag chair is similar to an over-sized bean bag chair, filled urethane foam for extreme comfort and support.
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A recliner is a chair with a reclining back. Most are armchairs and may come with a footrest that unfolds when the back is reclined.
A revolving chair is an older term for swivel chair.
A rocking chair, or rocker, typically is a wooden sidechair or armchair with legs mounted on curved rockers, so that the chair can sway back and forth. Rocking chairs can be quite dangerous for small children and pets as the rocker can crush feet as it rotates. Sometimes the rocking chair is on springs or on a platform (a "platform rocker") to avoid this danger.
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Old-fashioned swivel chair.Sam Maloof is a designer of wooden rocking chairs.
A sedan chair is an open or enclosed chair attached to twin poles for carrying. Using this form of transport, an occupant can be carried by two or more porters.
A Shaker rocker, or rocking chair, is one of several chair forms, including side chairs, made by the Shakers
A side chair is a chair with a seat and back but without armrests. It is often matched with a dining table or used as an occasional chair.
A sit-stand chair allows the person to lean against this device and be partially supported. It is better than standing all day.
A spinny chair is a chair that is commonly used with computers due its ability to move freely.
A Slumber chair is an easy chair manufactured by C. F. Streit Mfg. Co. in the first half of the 20th century that has a combination upholstered back and seat portion, the inclination of which is adjustable within a base frame. Later versions of this chair had a footstool with a removable top that could reveal a "slipper-compartment."
A sling chair is a suspended, free-swinging chair hanging from a ceiling.
A steno chair is a simple office chair, usually without arms, meant for use by secretarial staff.
A stool is a chair without back and arm rests.
A sweetheart chair, as used in soda shops, is also known as a parlor chair and an ice cream chair (from use in ice cream parlors). The wire frame in the center of the back curls in a manner to suggest a heart design. However, the term "sweetheart chair" also has a more generic usage and refers to any chair with a heart-shaped design in the center of the back.
Swivel chairs swivel about a vertical axis. Commonly used in offices, they are often on casters as well.
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A throne is a ceremonial chair for a monarch.
A toilet Chair is a disability aid attached to a normal toilet.
The Tulip chair was designed by Eero Saarinen in 1956. Considered a classic of industrial design.
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A visitor's chair is a chair used for a visitor to someone's office. It is usually less comfortable and ornate than the main office chair.
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A Wassily Chair is a chair design by Marcel Breuer that is formed from steel tubing and leather.
A wheelchair is a chair on wheels for someone who cannot walk.
A wheeled computer chair is a chair invented for use with a personal computer, invented by Nathan Zuidhof.
A wicker chair is a chair made of wicker and is thus ventilated and useful under hot or humid conditions. Likewise, a cane chair.
A Wiggle chair is a cardboard seating form designed by Frank Gehry in 1972.
A Windsor chair is a classic, informal chair usually constructed of wood turnings that form a high-spoked back, often topped by a shaped crest rail, outward-sloped legs, and stretchers that reinforce the legs. The seat is often saddled or sculpted for extra comfort, and some Windsors have shaped arms supported by short spindles.
A wing chair is an upholstered easy chair with large "wings" mounted to the armrests and enclosing the head or torso areas of the body. Such chairs originally were designed to provide comfortable protection from drafts.
The writing armchair is the most compact rendition of a school desk.
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An X-chair is a chair with X-shaped frame.
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