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- A klismos (Gr****: κλισμός) or klismos chair is a type of ancient Gr**** chair, with curved backrest and tapering, outcurved legs. Klismoi are familiar...
- Books. ASIN B00L76LSDO. Witold Rybczynski (2017). Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374537036...
- The Museum of Modern Art. Rybczynski, Witold. Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. "How...
- American interiors. Innovations such as the Gr****-inspired "sofa" and the "klismos chair" allowed both American women and men to pose as Gr****s in their homes...
- ebony and ivory, according to Pausanias. Other Gr**** seats included the klismos, an elegant Gr**** chair with a curved backrest and legs whose form was...
- hexameter verse written in a terse and elegant style, intended for the klismos traveller rather than the actual tourist on the ground; he is believed...
- director from 1801 until his death. Richard III, oil on canvas, 1787. Klismos chair, c. 1790, Danish Design Museum. Culmin's Ghost Appears to his Mother...
- Palace in Jaipur, India. His first piece was his interpretation of a Gr**** Klismos chair, based on a 1920s drawing by an architect. The chair is rendered...
- and Company. p. 7. Rybczynski, Witold (2016). Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 198...
- levels. The lowest level features a klismos, a form of ancient Gr**** informal chair meant for rulers. The klismos chair faces the audience, much as a...