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A folding chair is a type of folding furniture, a light, portable chair that folds flat or to a smaller size. Many modern styles of folding chairs can be stored in a stack, in a row, or on a cart . They may be combined with a folding table .
In Northern Europe, the remains of folding chairs have been found dating back to the Bronze Age.Foldable chairs were also used in Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome.During the Middle Ages, the folding chair was widely used as a liturgical furniture piece – part of the standing of a bishop was his cathedra (official chair or throne), which was housed in his cathedral (church which housed his ...
Italian tripolina, 1930s. The Tripolina is a folding chair made out of wood with metal swivel joints and animal hide.It was invented by Joseph B. Fenby and patented in the United States in 1881.
The curule chair was originally very similar in form to the modern folding chair, but eventually received a good deal of ornament. [3] The most famous of the very few chairs which have come down from a remote antiquity is the reputed Chair of Saint Peter in St Peter's Basilica at Rome.
The chair was the first compactly stackable chair invented, and is able to stack 40 chairs 4 feet (120 cm) high. [1] ... 1974 U.S. patent 3,845,984 Folding Chair;
A curule seat probably designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, made in carved wood and gilded ca. 1810 in Berlin, later restored and reupholstered by a private dealer. A curule seat is a design of a (usually) foldable and transportable chair noted for its uses in Ancient Rome and Europe through to the 20th century.
He also designed the 'Gadabout folding chair' which was produced from 1961, and was commissioned by the Ministry of Health to design a larger folding buggy for larger children with disabilities called the 'Buggy Major' this buggy was designed on square tubes instead of the usual round tubes like the 'Baby Buggy', being produced around 1970.
He introduced the device on June 4, 1937, in the Humpty Dumpty supermarket chain in Oklahoma City, of which he was the owner.With the assistance of a mechanic named Fred Young, Goldman constructed the first shopping cart, basing his design on that of a wooden folding chair.