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A sunlounger (British "sun lounger") is a chair-like device, typically placed in a patio, garden, or swimming pool deck, or used as beach-side outdoor furniture. [1] Sunloungers from the back. They are often constructed from wood, formed plastic, or metal and indoor fabrics.
Brise-soleil can comprise a variety of permanent sun-shading structures, ranging from the simple patterned concrete walls popularized by Le Corbusier in the Palace of Assembly [3] to the elaborate wing-like mechanism devised by Santiago Calatrava for the Milwaukee Art Museum [4] or the mechanical, pattern-creating devices of the Institut du Monde Arabe by Jean Nouvel.
Chaise longue à réglage continu, also Chaise longue modèle B 306 à réglage continu or Chaise longue B 306 (later Chaise Longue - LC4, in 1964), is a chaise longue designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and the French designer Charlotte Perriand, who worked in the atelier of the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and his partner Pierre Jeanneret.
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A sunburst is a design or figure commonly used in architectural ornaments and design patterns and possibly pattern books. It consists of rays or "beams" radiating out from a central disk in the manner of sunbeams. [1] Sometimes part of a sunburst, a semicircular or semi-elliptical shape, is used.
The opposite pattern was called the counterpart, or 'contrapartie'. By sawing both patterns out of one packet and reassembling them on two trays, the background of the 'première partie' becomes the motif of the 'contrapartie'. Boulle made cabinets with both patterns in a single piece, or pairs of contrasting cabinets. [33]
Verner Panton (13 February 1926 – 5 September 1998) is considered one of Denmark's most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers.During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a variety of materials, especially plastics, and in vibrant and exotic colors.
The armchairs chairs of the early Louis XIV style had legs in a form called en gaine or en balustre, which were lavishly decorated with sculpted and often gilded ornaments called godsons, cannelures and feuillages, or leaves. The four legs were connected for support by a cross beam under the chair in the form of an H, which evolved into an X.