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Home windows The chair is of extreme antiquity, although for many centuries and indeed for thousands of years it was an article of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use. “The chair” is still extensively used as the emblem of authority in the House of Commons and in public meetings. It was not, in fact, until the 16th century that it became common anywhere. The chest, the bench and the stool were until then the ordinary seats of everyday life, and the number of chairs which have survived from an earlier date is exceedingly limited; most of such examples are of ecclesiastical or seigneurial origin. Our knowledge of the chairs of remote antiquity is derived almost entirely from monuments, sculpture and paintings. A few actual examples exist in the British Museum, in the Egyptian museum at Cairo, and elsewhere. 20th Century and modern chairs
The 20th century saw an increasing use of
technology in chair construction with such things as all-metal folding
chairs, metal-legged chairs, molded plastic chairs and ergonomic chairs.
The recliner (easy chair) became a popular form, at least in part due to
radio and television. The modern movement of the 1960s produced new
forms of chairs: the butterfly chair, beanbag chairs, the egg or pod
chair. Technological advances led to molded plywood and laminate wood
chairs.
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