"into a full-line furniture store. They changed the name to City Furniture, and the first showroom was opened in North Miami in 1994. All existing Waterbed City stores were converted by 1995, and the brand celebrated many milestones during this time period. This included the opening of a one-million-square foot showroom and distribution center complex in Tamarac, which is also home to the corporate offices and features an onsite health clinic for employees. Following the opening of the new distribution center, City Furniture introduced Same Day Delivery in 2002, as well as the launch of their own Kevin Charles brand"
"Grand Confort Grand Confort is a cube-shaped high armchair, whose leather cushions are held in a chrome-plated steel corset. It was designed as a modernist response to the traditional club chair in 1928 by a team of three: Le Corbusier; his cousin and colleague Pierre Jeanneret; and Charlotte Perriand. The LC-2 and LC-3 were referred as ""Cusion Baskets"" by Le Corbusier. They are more colloquially referred to as the and due to their respective sizes. These chairs have become most famous: The LC-2 (and similar LC-3) have been featured in a variety of media, notably the Maxell ""blown away"" advertisement."
"Eames Lounge Chair The Eames Lounge Chair and ottoman are furnishings made of molded plywood and leather, designed by Charles and Ray Eames for the Herman Miller furniture company. They are officially titled Eames Lounge (670) and Ottoman (671) and were released in 1956 after years of development by designers. It was the first chair that the Eameses designed for a high-end market. Examples of these furnishings are part of the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art. Charles and Ray Eames aimed to develop furniture that could be mass-produced and affordable, with the exception of the Eames"
"to the veneer, and excessive wear can reduce value. Eames Lounge Chair Wood The Eames Lounge Chair Wood (LCW) (also known as Low Chair Wood or Eames Plywood Lounge Chair) is a low seated easy chair designed by husband and wife team Charles and Ray Eames. The chair was designed using technology for molding plywood that the Eames developed before and during the Second World War. Before American involvement in the war, Charles Eames and his friend, architect Eero Saarinen, entered a furniture group into the Museum of Modern Art's ""Organic Design in Home Furnishings Competition"" in 1940, a contest"
"Centripetal Spring Armchair The Centripetal Spring Chair or Armchair was a 19th-century American office chair, and one of the first modern designs for office chairs. Designed in 1849 by the American inventor Thomas E. Warren (b. 1808), the chair was produced by the American Chair Company in Troy, New York. Made of cast iron and varnished steel with wood and velvet upholstery, it measured 107 × 61 × 71 centimeters with headrest and armrests, and had a seat height of 48 centimeters. The chair exhibited all features of today's office chairs except adjustable lumbar support: it allowed tilt movement in"
"Charles Pollock (designer) Charles Randolph Pollock (June 20, 1930 – August 20, 2013) was an industrial designer who created sleek furniture, most notably an office chair held together by a single aluminum band that became known as a Pollock Chair. This iconic chair, introduced in 1963 and still in production, became a staple of executive offices in the United States in the 1960s and can be seen, appropriately, in the period television show, ""Mad Men"", as well as institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Pollock studied at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute, and after serving in"
"Eames Lounge Chair Wood The Eames Lounge Chair Wood (LCW) (also known as Low Chair Wood or Eames Plywood Lounge Chair) is a low seated easy chair designed by husband and wife team Charles and Ray Eames. The chair was designed using technology for molding plywood that the Eames developed before and during the Second World War. Before American involvement in the war, Charles Eames and his friend, architect Eero Saarinen, entered a furniture group into the Museum of Modern Art's ""Organic Design in Home Furnishings Competition"" in 1940, a contest exploring the natural evolution of furniture in response to"
"from the Civil War era share many features with modern chairs, including high seating, upholstery, and a footrest. The first factory-manufactured chairs date to around 1850. The first one-piece reclining barber chair with an attached footrest was patented in 1878 by the Archer Company of Saint Louis. Archer quickly followed it with a chair that raised and lowered mechanically. Eugene Berninghaus of Cincinnati improved on Archer's design with the first reclining ""and"" revolving chair, the Paragon. Theodore Koch of Chicago incorporated all of these innovations into his chairs, selling more than 35,000 chairs in the period before 1885. In 1897,"
"Brno chair The Brno chair (model number MR50) is a modernist cantilever chair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich in 1929-1930 for the bedroom of the Tugendhat House in Brno, Czech Republic. The design was based on similar chairs created by Mies van der Rohe also working with Lilly Reich, such as the MR20 chair with wicker seat from 1927; all building on earlier designs of Mart Stam. The Brno chair has become a modern furniture classic. It has very clean lines, consisting of a steel frame in a single piece, bent into a C-shape from"
"in the April 24, 1822 edition 94, page 1, column 1, item 3 that Mr. Junigl a bourgeoisie upholsterer of Vienna had been granted the patent. He died in 1840 according to the Vienna, Austria newspaper. 1826, Samuel Pratt of New Bond Street, in the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square in the County of Middlesex received Great Britain Patent 5418 for ""Beds, Bedsteads, Couches, Seats and Other Articles of Furniture. This patent used coiled shaped springs in an arrangement to minimize for furniture for a nautical sailing vessel. 1828, Samuel Pratt received Great Britain Patent 5668 for ""Elastic Beds"
"furniture, upholstery fabric, wall coverings, tile, and other decorative accessories for use in the home. In 1949, Pahlmann designed the Momentum line of furniture, which featured large, semi-pneumatic wheels that allowed even the heaviest pieces to be easily moved and rearranged. The 1952 Hastings Square line of furniture utilized small rubber casters to achieve mobility, but also provided sleek forms, clean lines, and warm tones to an increasingly discerning audience. From 1971 to 1976, William Pahlmann Associates worked on designing interiors for three new buildings at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas: a Theater Arts Center, a 12-story Conference"
"Tripp Trapp Tripp Trapp is an adjustable wooden high chair for children. It was developed by the Norwegian furniture designer Peter Opsvik for the company Stokke AS. Launched in 1972, over time it became a best-selling item. Peter Opsvik is also the designer, in cooperation with Hans Christian Mengshoel, of the original ""Balans"" kneeling chair. Peter Opsvik noticed that his son Tor had no chair that could position him at the correct height at the family dinner table and enable him to participate with the rest of the family. He then developed a chair that was adjustable and changed with"
"Human furniture Human furniture is furniture in which a person's body is used as a tray, foot stool, chair, table, cabinet or other item. Forniphilia is the practice of creating human furniture. Examples of human furniture have appeared in modern art and in pornography. A model used as human furniture may be nude or semi-nude to add to the erotic or aesthetic appeal. Allen Jones' sculptures ""Hatstand"", ""Table"" and ""Chair"", made in 1969, which show semi-naked women in the roles of furniture, is a classic example of the depiction of forniphilia as art. The term ""forniphilia"" was coined by bondage"
"for a folding chair was by John Cham in 1855. In 1947, Fredric Arnold created the first aluminum folding chair with fabric strapping for the seat and back. By 1957, the Fredric Arnold Company of Brooklyn, New York, was manufacturing more than 14,000 chairs per day. Today, the folding chair is mostly made of hard plastic or metal or wood. Folding chairs can be divided into different categories. In the mid 1980s, folding chairs were used in professional wrestling as weapons, mainly by World Wrestling Entertainment. The investigation into Chris Benoit's death cited Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is often caused"
"Adirondack chair The Adirondack chair (in Canada, more commonly called a Muskoka chair) is a distinctively styled outdoor chair characteristically made of wood. Originally made with a flat seat and back composed of 11 flat wooden boards, it featured wide armrests parallel to the ground. Today a concave back and contoured seat are the norm. Chairs made from polymers and other hard impact plastics are growing in popularity. The first Adirondack chair was designed by Thomas Lee while vacationing in Westport, New York, in the Adirondack Mountains in 1903. Needing outdoor chairs for his summer home, he tested his early"
"Tulip chair The Tulip chair was designed by Eero Saarinen in 1955 and 1956 for the Knoll company of New York City. It was designed primarily as a chair to match the complementary dining table. The chair has the smooth lines of modernism and was experimental with materials for its time. The chair is considered a classic of industrial design. The chair is often considered ""space age"" for its futuristic use of curves and artificial materials. Saarinen said: ""The undercarriage of chairs and tables in a typical interior makes an ugly, confusing, unrestful world. I wanted to clear up the"
"He filed a patent for it in the following year. It has been considered to be a predecessor to the bean bag, whereby the chair compresses and fully adapts to the shape and size of the user. The design was completed when Dean was one of the few students picked from the Royal College to design and make objects in famed designer Cherrill Scheer's factory. The chair remains one of Cherrill's favourite pieces. It is now a part of the permanent collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 1968, during his third year at the Royal College, Dean was"
"to his bed, which became the model for future devices of its type, with Cavendish eventually using a total of 10 different chairs. Determined that mobility should be available to other polio survivors, Cavendish raised money from the Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust for the first dozen chairs, and eventually persuaded the then British Department of Health to fund a series of chairs, which were manufactured by Teddy Hall's company, Littlemore Scientific Engineering. After testing them on himself, Cavendish helped to market pieces of equipment that improve the quality of life of disabled people. Most notable among these was the Possum,"
"his scar while sitting in one of these chairs. The Presidential Seal was embossed on these chairs with one currently in the Smithsonian Institution and another at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. With over 300 patents, Caldemeyer added the foot lift rest, heated seating and massage features to this chair and had the patent for the first entertainment center. Traditional home recliners are generally intended to be large immobile objects that never move and must be dragged or carried to be moved. Now home furniture manufacturers produce a thick padded leather or overstuffed fabric recliner with casters. Recliners"
"Love chair The Love chair (French Siege d'amour) was a device created by a French furniture manufacturer in the early 20th century to allow the corpulent British King Edward VII to have sex with two or more women simultaneously. The chair was first created by the Soubrier furniture manufacturer, which has now (as of 2018) become the current owner of the device. The King's waist measured 48 inches (122 cm) shortly before his coronation at which point the practice of visiting brothels may have stopped. Prior to this, however, the King was a regular visitor at ""Le Chabanais"" in Paris,"
"would become the standard model for the whole world. He visited Europe in the fall of 1851, and on his return, in 1852, he had the idea of starting a model billiard-table factory. He left the East Coast in the fall of 1854, and arrived in San Francisco, where he opened an elegant billiard hall which immediately became one of the chief points of interest of the city. Phelan continued his success as a player and was again pronounced unconquerable. In 1854, he invented a new cushion, which was noted for its elastic and lasting qualities. To assist with aim,"
"Acupressure pillow An Acupressure Pillow is made of two spheres connected by a compression spring surrounded by memory foam and was invented by Steve Cohen of Newport Beach, CA with a patent pending as of March 2013. One places the pillow behind their neck and shoulder and lies on it to create pressure at the base of their neck. It has been shown that this pressure created reduces stress and possibly reduces headaches. Acupressure pillow (also called spike pillow, nail pillow or fakir pillow) is a type of pillow that is made by covering a sponge with fabrics and plastic"
"40/4 Chair The 40/4 chair is the first compactly stackable chair invented. David Rowland designed the chair in 1964 and forty chairs able to be stacked within a height of 4 feet (120 cm) giving the chair its name. Over time it has received a number of design awards and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as other museums internationally. The frame of the chair is made of 7/16” solid steel rod. The seat and back are formed sheet metal with 3/16” rolled edges and coated in vinyl. Some models"
"David Frost and a pop single cover of the Spice Girls. Model 3107 chair The Model 3107 chair is a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1955 that uses a technique invented by Charles and Ray Eames through which plywood can be bent in three dimensions. Over 5 million units have been produced exclusively by Fritz Hansen. It is one of the most-copied chairs in the world. The chair, along with the Jacobsen's Ant chair, was, according to Jacobsen, inspired by a chair made by the husband and wife design team of Charles and Ray Eames. The chair is available"
"Business 2009 US Patent Information Zibb.com The Global Business Search Engine<nowiki></nowiki>] The Giggle Guide Neatnik Saucer Neatnik Saucer is the patented high chair cover and baby place mat all-in-one. It prevents food and toys from falling to the floor while providing a sanitary barrier and clean activity space for infants and toddlers. Neatnik is a lightweight, portable and collapsible juvenile product that is designed to fit primarily restaurant style high chairs and some home models. It is suitable for use by parents of babies aged from six months to three years. In 2007, the inventors, Danielle Batchelor and Cookie Centracco"
"design in 1938. Best Teak Adirondack Chairs. Adirondack chair The Adirondack chair (in Canada, more commonly called a Muskoka chair) is a distinctively styled outdoor chair characteristically made of wood. Originally made with a flat seat and back composed of 11 flat wooden boards, it featured wide armrests parallel to the ground. Today a concave back and contoured seat are the norm. Chairs made from polymers and other hard impact plastics are growing in popularity. The first Adirondack chair was designed by Thomas Lee while vacationing in Westport, New York, in the Adirondack Mountains in 1903. Needing outdoor chairs for"
"most iconic version being black leather. In 1969, the Eames added a ""Soft Pad"" version with cushions. In 2001, a version with ""Cygnus"" mesh (similar to the Aeron chair's Pellicle) was introduced. Eames Aluminum Group The Eames Aluminum Group series is a line of furniture designed by Charles and Ray Eames. While the furniture, particularly the task chair, is an icon of office furniture, it was originally commissioned as outdoor seating for the home of J. Irwin Miller (founder of Cummins Engines) by Eero Saarinen and Alexander Girard. The original design featured a woven suspension back and seat stretched between"
"Model 3107 chair The Model 3107 chair is a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1955 that uses a technique invented by Charles and Ray Eames through which plywood can be bent in three dimensions. Over 5 million units have been produced exclusively by Fritz Hansen. It is one of the most-copied chairs in the world. The chair, along with the Jacobsen's Ant chair, was, according to Jacobsen, inspired by a chair made by the husband and wife design team of Charles and Ray Eames. The chair is available with a number of different undercarriages — as a regular four-legged"
"1980s as part of the ""Herman Miller Classics"" line, and continues in production today. The design was created in 1954 when a salesman for a Long Island plastics company presented to George Nelson's New York City studio an example of the company's ability to create round, 12-inch foam discs that became ""self-skinned"". The limited manufacturing costs made the item inviting, and designer Irving Harper was asked to design a piece of furniture around the discs. Over a weekend Harper designed a sofa, incorporating 18 of the discs arranged over a metal frame. The invention did not live up to its"
"Neatnik Saucer Neatnik Saucer is the patented high chair cover and baby place mat all-in-one. It prevents food and toys from falling to the floor while providing a sanitary barrier and clean activity space for infants and toddlers. Neatnik is a lightweight, portable and collapsible juvenile product that is designed to fit primarily restaurant style high chairs and some home models. It is suitable for use by parents of babies aged from six months to three years. In 2007, the inventors, Danielle Batchelor and Cookie Centracco created the only product that covers the standard restaurant style high chair and extends"
"nails, the latter of which are intended to relax the neck of the user. The pillow was patented by Swedish company Fakir HB. It was later publicly launched by the same company in April 2009. Acupressure pillow An Acupressure Pillow is made of two spheres connected by a compression spring surrounded by memory foam and was invented by Steve Cohen of Newport Beach, CA with a patent pending as of March 2013. One places the pillow behind their neck and shoulder and lies on it to create pressure at the base of their neck. It has been shown that this"
"as Vitra furniture. From the very beginning of his career Alvar Aalto experimented with materials, especially wood, and even applied for patents for the bending of wood as applied in his furniture designs and as acoustic screens in his buildings. The Aaltos designed several different types of furniture and lamps for the Paimio Sanatorium (1929-33). The best known of the furniture pieces is his cantilevered birch wood Paimio Chair, which was specifically designed for tuberculosis patients to sit in for long hours each day. Aalto argued that the angle of the back of the chair was the perfect angle for"
"was manufactured by Comfortaire in 1981, which was later purchased by Select Comfort, in January 2013 for $15.5m. Select Comfort announced on March 30, 2017 that they were ceasing all third party retail sales, of the Comfortaire Line of products, essentially shutting down the Comfortaire Brand. Other manufacturers include Boyd Specialty, InnoMax, and American National. Less expensive airbeds used for camping or guests include the Aerobed, sold by Jarden subsidiary The Coleman Company. Air mattress An air mattress is an inflatable mattress/sleeping pad. Due to its buoyancy, it is also often used as a water toy/flotation device, and in some"