folding chairs history: folding armchairs / frontal-X / director chairs (pivot under seat-level) .............................................................................................

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THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF FOLDING CHAIRS
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modern history
folding armchairs / frontal-X / director chairs
(pivot under seat-level)
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from military use to hollywood's film sets...

---		 field folding armchair of napoleon I,
france, 19th century
musèe de l'armèe, paris

---		 officer's folding chair,
french origin, ca. 1890

---		 sailor folding chair,
anonimous origin,
europe, ca.1920

---		 'bauhaus' folding arm chair by marcel breuer,
germany, 1928

---		 folding armchair,
hermes, france, 1939

---		 common director's chair
usa, 1950's


---		 folding chair by henry glass,
usa 1950s-1960s

---		 cantilever folding chair,
erik magnussen, 1969

---		 folding chair,
origin unknown, ca. 1970

---		 'zdown' folding chair by erik magnusson
for engelbrecht, denmark, 1998

---		 'cinecittà' by enzo mari
for magis, italy, 2001



THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF FOLDING CHAIRS
© designboom
(compiled by birgit lohmann - a thesis publication, july 1988, revised in june 2003)

this history timeline is provided for educational purposes only,
no reproduction, re-use or transcription for any commercial purpose or use of the content or images is permitted.
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