Now I Sit Me Down (31 page)

Australia

Austro-Hungarian Empire

baby carriages,
see
strollers

backstools

Baillie Scott, M. H.

Baiser pris et rendu, Le
(La Fontaine)

banker's chairs

barbarian beds

barber chairs

Barcalo, Edward J.

BarcaLounger

Barcelona Chair

Baroque style

barrel chairs

barstools

Bätzner, Helmut: plastic chair

Bauhaus movement

beanbag chairs

Bedouins

beds

Belgium

benches

bentwood furniture; café chairs; dining chairs; modernist; rocking chairs

bergères

Beyond Diamond Rings
(Choppra)

Billington, Theophilus

Blade, Mary Plumb

Boer War

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Bosse, Abraham

Boston

Boston rocker

Boucher, François

Brancusi, Constantin

Branton, Paul

Braudel, Fernand

Breuer, Francesca

Breuer, Marcel; B35 lounge chair; Bauhaus furniture; Cesca Chair; Isokon chairs; Wassily Chair;

Britain; colonies of (
see also
America, Colonial; Edwardian; innovative seating in; in Napoleonic Wars;
see also
England

British Museum

Bronze Age

Brookings Institution

Brown, Denise Scott

Brueghel, Pieter, the Elder

Brussels

Budapest

Burgundy, Louis-Joseph, Duke of

Burling, Thomas

Bushman, Richard L.

Cabinet and Chair Maker's Real Friend and Companion, The
(Manwaring)

Cabinetmaker Day School (Copenhagen)

Cabinet-maker and Upholsterers Guide, The
(Hepplewhite)

cabriole chairs; design influence of

Cairo Museum

café chairs; bentwood

Cambridge University

camp stools

Canada

canapés
, see sofas

caned seats and/or backs; café chairs with; modernist designs using; rocking chairs with; side chairs with

cantilever chairs;
see also
Cesca Chair

Caplan, Ralph

Carl Hansen & Søn

Carpenter Hall (Philadelphia)

Catherine of Braganza, Queen

Cesca Chair

Chadwick, Don; Aeron Chair; Sarah Chair

chaises longues; variants of

Chandler Industries

Chapuis, Jean-Joseph

Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Simeon

Charlemagne

Charles II, King of England

Charles VII, King of France

Châtelet, Émilie, Marquise du

chauffeuse
(warming chair)

Cheops (pharaoh)

Chicago

Chieftain's Chair

China; ancient; dynastic

Chinese Household Furniture
(Kates)

Chippendale, Thomas; design influence of

Choppra, Kusum

Christy, Howard Chandler

Churchill, Winston

Cirey, Château de

Civil War

club chairs

Collins, Lauren

Collins, Peter

Congress Voting Independence
(Pine)

Consumer's Chair

Coolidge, Calvin

Cooper Union

Copenhagen Cabinetmakers Guild

Court of Gonzaga, The
(Mantegna)

Craftsman style

Cram, John

Cranbook Academy of Art

Cranz, Galen

Crete

Crystal Palace

curule

Cycladic civilization

Czechoslovakia

Dagobert I, Merovingian king of the Franks

Danish Modern design movement

Darly, Matthew

David, Jacques-Louis

Day, Robin: Polyprop Chair

daybeds

deck chairs

Déjuner, Le
(Boucher)

Denmark;
see also
Danish Modern design movement

dental chairs

desk chairs

De Stijl art group

Dickens, Charles

Deutsche Stahlmöbel (DESTA)

Diderot, Denis

Diffrient, Niels; World Chair

dining chairs

director's chairs

Douro Chair

Dragon Throne

Dream Chair

Drexel, Anthony

Dreyfuss, Henry

Dublin

Dunnigan, John

“Dutch matted chair,”
see
rustic side chairs

Eames, Charles; Dining Chair Metal (DCM); lounge chair; potato-chip chair; reading chair; shell chairs

Eames, Ray

easy chairs; modern versions of; variants of (
see also
recliners)

ébénistes

Edinburgh

Egyptian Chair

Egyptians, ancient; folding stools of

Egyptian Stool

Elastic Chair

Encyclopédie
(Diderot)

England; Chippendale furniture in; Georgian; origin of Windsor chair in;
see also
Britain; London

Ergon Chair

ergonomic chairs,
see
task chairs

Esherick, Wharton

Etruscans

Evans, Arthur

Everest, Herbert

Ezekiel, Jacob

Faisal, Prince

faldstools

Fan Chair

fauteuils;
fauteuil de malade

Fenby Chair

Finland

Fireplace Chair

Flag Halyard Chair

Flagg, Josiah, Jr.

folding chairs; aluminum lawn chairs; Chinese; modernist;
see also
deck chairs; director's chairs

Foliot, Nicolas-Quinibert

Fontainebleau, Château de

Foot's Adjustable Rest-Chair

footstools

Ford, Henry

Fortnum & Mason

40/4 stacking chair

Founding Fathers

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré

France; medieval; swings in

Frank, Josef; No. A811F chair

Franklin, Benjamin

Franz Josef I, Emperor of Austria

Freedom Chair

French Revolution

Fuller, Buckminster

Furness, Frank

Fussell, Solomon

Gadabout camp chair

Garde-Meuble de la Couronne

Garden Party, The
(Assyrian bas-relief)

Gebrüder Thonet; convalescent chairs

Gehry, Frank: laminated wood chairs

Gentleman and Cabinetmaker's Director, The
(Chippendale)

George II, King of England

Georgia

Germany; ancient; Nazi

Gilbert, Christopher

Gilpin, Thomas

Glasgow

Gloat, John

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Gold Medal Camp Furniture Manufacturing Company

Gordon, Patrick

Gothic Revival

Gothic style

Gouty Stool

Graffigny, Françoise de

Gragg, Samuel; Elastic Chair

Graves, Michael: klismos chair; transport chair

Greek Revival

Greeks, ancient;
see also
klismos chairs

Grollier de Servière, Nicolas

Gropius, Walter

guild system

Guimard, Hector

Ham House chairs

Hansen, Fritz

Hansen, Johannes

Han Xizai

Happy Accidents of the Swing, The
(Fragonard)

Haydn, Joseph

Hemingway, Ernest

Henzey, Joseph

Hepplewhite, George

Heurtaut, Nicolas

Hewes, Gordon W.

Hickory Chair Company

Hoffmann, Josef;
Sitzmaschine

Hogarth, William

Hollywood

Homer

hoop-back chairs;
see also
sack-back Windsor chairs

Hoover, Herbert

Hope, Thomas

Horace

House & Garden

Household Furniture and Interior Decoration
(Hope)

Huguenots

Huizong, Emperor of China

Humanscale
(Diffrient)

Hungary

Huxley, Aldous

IKEA

Independence Hall

India

Indonesia

Industrial Age

industrial production

Industrial Revolution

Interiors
magazine

International Exposition (Barcelona, 1929)

Islamic culture

Isokon

Issigonis, Alec

Italy

Itten, Johannes

Ivar Chair

Jacob, George

Jacobsen, Arne; Ant Chair; Series 7 chair

Jamaica

Japan

JCPenney

Jean II, Duke of Alençon

Jeanneret, Pierre

Jefferson, Thomas

Jennings, Harry

Jensen, Georg

Joan of Arc

Johansson, Birthe and Torsten

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Johnson, Philip

Juhl, Finn

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute

Kamprad, Ingvar

Kandinsky, Wassily

Kates, George Norbert

Kazam! machine

Kelly, Ellen Davis

Kennedy, John F.

King, Bob

Kjær, Jacob

Kjærholm, Poul

Kleinhans Music Hall

Kline, Samuel

Klint, Kaaere; Red Chair; Safari Chair

klismos chairs; design influence of

knockdown furniture

Knoll, Florence

Knoll company

Knossos, Palace of

Koch, Mogens

Kohn furniture company

Konsumstuhl
,
see
Consumer's Chair

Koolhaas, Rem

Korea

Kubler, George

L.L. Bean

La Fontaine, Jean de

Larsen, Ejner

Late Neolithic period

Latin America

Latour, Louis

Latrobe, Benjamin

Lauderdale, Elizabeth Murray, Duchess of

lawn chairs

Lawrence, T. E.

Lawrence of Arabia
(film)

Lazare Duvaux

La-Z-Boy recliners

Lean, David

Le Corbusier;
fauteuil
à
dossier basculant
; chaise longue

Lee, Thomas

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

Lengyel, Kalman

Life
magazine

Lincoln, Abraham

Line of Beauty

London; Great Exhibition in (1851)

Loos, Adolf: Café Museum chair

Lorenz, Anton

Lorenz, Irene

Louis XIV, King of France

Louis XV, King of France; bergère

Louis XVI, King of France

lounge chairs; modernist designers of; precursors of,
see
chaises longues; klismos chairs;
see also
deck chairs; recliners;
Sitzmaschine

Louvre

Luckhardt, Hans and Wassili

lumbar support

Lundgren, Gillis

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

Mackintosh, Margaret

Maclaren, Owen Finlay

Madsen, Bender

Magistretti, Vico: plastic chair

Maloof, Sam

Mannessmann Steel Works

Mantegna, Andrea

Manwaring, Robert

marquetry

Martin brothers

mass production;
see also
industrial production

Matisse, Henri

May, Samuel

Mayans

McKinley, William

Measure of Man, The
(Dreyfuss)

medical chairs

Medicis

medieval era,
see
Middle Ages

Meier, Richard

Melanesians

Memphis design group

Mendelsohn, Erich

Merlin, John Joseph

Mesopotamia

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)

Metternich, Prince Klemens von

Middle Ages

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig; Barcelona Chair; MR10; Tugendhat Chair

Miller, Herman

Minoans

Mitford, Nancy

modernists;
see also
Bauhaus movement

Mogensen, Børge

Molière

Møller, Erik

Mondrian, Piet

Mongols

monobloc chairs

Monticello

Montreal

Moore, Henry

Moors

Moravia

Morning Session, The
(Matisse)

Morris, William

Morris chair

Morrison, Andrew

Morrison, Jasper; Air-Chair

Mount Vernon

Moustier, Éléonore-François-Élie, Comte de

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

MR10

Mughals

Munich

Musée Carnavalet (Paris)

Museum of Modern Art (New York); “Organic Design in Home Furnishings” competition

Muslims,
see
Islamic culture

Mycenaeans

Nabokov, Vladimir

Nakashima, George

Napoleon I

Napoleonic Wars

Native Americans

Nazis

neclassical style

Nelson, Horatio Viscount Nelson

Neolithic period, Late

New Book of Chinese, Gothic and Modern Chairs, A
(Darly)

Newport (Rhode Island)

Newton, Isaac

New York City

New Yorker, The

New York Times

New York Times Building (New York, 2007)

Night Revels of Han Xizai, The
(Chinese scroll painting)

North Carolina

No. A811F (Prague) chair

Obama, Barack

Oeben, Jean-François

office chairs;
see also
desk chairs; task chairs

Oies de Frère Philippe, Les
(La Fontaine)

Oklahoma, University of

Onion, The

ornament

ottomans

Owens-Corning

Oxford University, Sackler Library

Paimio furniture

Palatinate

Panton, Vernon

papasan chairs

Paragon Chair

Paris

Parthenon

Pascaud, Jean

Peacock Chair

Peacock Throne

Peale, Charles Willson

Pei, I. M.

Peking

Peninsular War

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, University of

Perriand, Charlotte

Persia

Philadelphia

Piano, Renzo

Pine, Robert Edge