Leather wing chairs were traded out for mitt-shaped seats that looked as though they had been made from ladyfingers.
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They're relaxing in the lobby of a city agency, one outfitted with a couch and wing chairs to make it feel homey.
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Goh handpicked furniture during several trips to Paris and London, choosing four red wing chairs with the British coat of arms as an accent.
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By night, sit among the bar's Oriental rugs, wing chairs and exposed metal ducts while thoughtfully swirling Swiss syrah (not bad) or pinot noir (much better).
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And they gather in the living room, whose look — animal prints on the ottoman, the wing chairs and throw pillows — speaks to Ms. Palminteri's fondness for African design.
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Some people on Twitter pointed out the awkward arrangement of the Oval Office photo, with the queen and first lady standing behind their husbands, who were seated in wing chairs.
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Spring cleaning is a great time to break out of a vacuum rut and save yourself some sweat by making the machine do the work of cleaning furniture like sofas and wing chairs, mattresses, walls, window treatments, windowsills and casings, and even the windows themselves.
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"I love old things, because I feel if something has survived a few hundred years of use, I'm probably not going to destroy it," said Mr. Burroughs, who nonetheless didn't think twice about grabbing a pair of capacious wing chairs, antique reproductions, for $75 each at a yard sale.
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An 18th-century wing chair A wing chair (also, wing-back chair or wing-back) is an easy chair or club chair with "wings" attached to the back of the chair, typically, but not always, stretching down to the arm rest. The purpose of the "wings" was to shield the occupant of the chair from drafts, and to trap the heat from a fireplace in the area where the person would be sitting. Hence, in the past these were often used near a fireplace. Currently, most examples of wing chairs are fully upholstered with exposed wood legs, but many of the oldest examples of wing chairs have an exposed frame with padded cushions at the seat, arm rests, back and sometimes wings.
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They were first introduced in England during the 1600s, and the basic design has remained unchanged since. They did not become popular until the 1720s. Though there are many types of wing chairs, there are two standard wing styles - the flat wing and the scroll wing. There are also bat wings and butterfly wings, among other types.
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They also bought more than a million yards of her signature cabbage rose fabric. In 1937, Draper created a top-to-bottom decorative scheme for the exclusive Hampshire House apartment hotel, giving the lobby a bold black and white checkerboard floor, a thick glass Art Deco mantelpiece surround, Victorian-style wing chairs, and neo- Baroque plaster decorations. She found artisans in Brooklyn who could fashion enormous scroll-and-shell bas-reliefs, floral swags and multi-arm chandeliers. Her use of sliding glass doors rather than shower curtains at Hampshire House was considered innovative.
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Five of the fiberglass chairs, located near the Vanderbilt Tennis Club entrance In 1998, upon completion of the renovation, the MTA installed several oversize armchairs in the Dining Concourse to draw in crowds and encourage them to stay and eat there. The chairs were made from a fiberglass resin, and resembled the plush wing chairs that were on the 20th Century Limited, one of the most famous trains to utilize Grand Central. The chairs were removed in 2011 to improve passenger circulation in the concourse, as they became too frequently used by tourists taking photos. The chairs were subsequently moved to the terminal's employee lounges.
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With the opening of the newly repaired and renovated Oval office, Hoover was given a 17-piece office suite, made by furniture makers from Grand Rapids, Michigan, by the Grand Rapids Furniture Manufacturers Association, to furnish the space. The Wilson Desk was the centerpiece of this office suite. According to an article in the Grand Rapids Spectator from the time, in addition to the desk the full set consists of a "davenport, a club chair, two large and one smaller wing chairs, two tables, a swivel desk chair, two armchairs, two bookcases, a small table and three smoking stands of two sizes." All pieces have uniform finishes and carry a common design language, but were created by various Grand Rapids furniture manufactures.
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New types of furniture introduced in this period include cabinets on stands, chests of drawers, armchairs and wing chairs, and day beds. The growing power of the English East India Company resulted in increased imports of exotic commodities from China and Japan, including tea, porcelain and lacquer, and chintzes from India. This led to a craze for chinoiserie, reflected in the development of imitation lacquer (Japanning), blue and white decoration on ceramics, flat- chased scenes of Chinese-style figures and landscapes on silver, and new forms of silver such as teapots, as well as colourful Indian-style crewelwork bed- hangings and curtains. Other developments in the Restoration period were the emergence of the English glass industry, following the invention of lead glass by George Ravenscroft around 1676, and the manufacture of slipware by Thomas Toft.
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