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2. Office chair - Wikipedia

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   An office chair, or desk chair, is a type of chair that is designed for use at a desk in an office. It is usually a swivel chair , with a set of wheels for mobility and adjustable height. Modern office chairs typically use a single, distinctive load bearing leg (often called a gas lift ), which is positioned underneath the chair seat.

3. Modern furniture - Wikipedia

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   Modern furniture refers to furniture produced from the late 19th century through the present that is influenced by modernism. Post- World War II ideals of cutting excess, commodification, and practicality of materials in design heavily influenced the aesthetic of the furniture. It was a tremendous departure from all furniture design that had ...

4. Desk - Wikipedia

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   Desk; c. 1765; mahogany, chestnut and tulip poplar; 87.3 x 92.7 x 52.1 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) A desk or bureau is a piece of furniture with a flat table-style work surface used in a school, office, home or the like for academic, professional or domestic activities such as reading, writing, or using equipment such as a computer.

5. List of furniture types - Wikipedia

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   Aquarium furniture. Bar furniture. Children's furniture. Door furniture. Hutch. Park furniture (such as benches and picnic tables) Stadium seating. Street furniture. Sword furniture – on Japanese swords ( katana, wakizashi, tantō) all parts save the blade are referred to as "furniture".

6. List of Oval Office desks - Wikipedia

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   90 by 53.5 inches (229 by 136 cm) [4] This desk was created in 1903 for then President Theodore Roosevelt. It was first used in the Oval Office by William Howard Taft and remained there until the West Wing fire in 1929. It remained in storage until 1945 when Harry S. Truman placed it in the modern Oval Office.

7. List of chairs - Wikipedia

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   The modern club chair is based upon the club chairs used by the popular and fashionable urban gentlemen's clubs of 1850s England. Cockfighting chair, an 18th-century chair for libraries where the seat and arms were shaped so that a reader could sit astride to use a small desk attached to the back. [16]