A klismos (Greek: κλισμός) or klismos chair is a type of ancient Greek chair, with curved backrest and tapering, outcurved legs. Klismoi are familiar...
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 Greek-inspired "sofa" and the "klismos chair" allowed both American women and men to pose as Greeks in their homes...
ebony and ivory, according to Pausanias. Other Greek seats included the klismos, an elegant Greek chair with a curved backrest and legs whose form was...
Palace in Jaipur, India. His first piece was his interpretation of a Greek Klismos chair, based on a 1920s drawing by an architect. The chair is rendered...
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...
Press. pp. 801–802. Witold Rybczynski (2017). Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374537036...
Reinach commissioned exact copies of ancient Grecian chairs, tabourets and klismos furniture kept in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples from the...
The style of painting is in the Neoclassical manner. Brutus sits on a klismos on the left, alone and brooding; to the right, his wife holds their two...
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 Greek informal chair meant for rulers. The klismos chair faces the audience, much as a...
stand on their own. Rybczynski, Witold (2016). Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 198...
classical forms that were more authentic. The type of Greek chair called the klismos became especially popular; Jacob produced a variety of neoclassical divans...
passes through the arm-size of the outer garment. Hegeso is seated on a klismos chair with slender elements, and places her sandalled feet on the delicate...
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...
publisher (link) Rybczynski, Witold (2016-08-23). Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 146–148...
the same purpose today. Several American Empire-style sofas, a set of klismos chairs, carved black walnut Renaissance Revival-style chairs for the Senate...
Mysteries of the Mall: And Other Essays (2015) Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History (2016) ISBN 978-0374223212 Charleston...
Pausanias. Less extravagant though more influential in later periods is the klismos (Greek singular: κλισμός), an elegant Greek chair with a curved backrest...
2014, pp. 52–57. Rybczynski, Witold (2016-08-23). Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 146–148...
break round the room. The only furnishings were the dining chairs of Greek klismos type, formally ranged round the walls. When the Imperial family were to...
exhibitions at the Design Museum. An early example of his furniture is the Klismos Chair (1922), produced by Fritz Hansen in ash. Student hostel, Paris (1932)...
features a symbolic relief of a woman approaching another woman seated on a klismos, both with their arms stretched out towards each other as if they are about...
1321-9. L. Burn, The Meidias Painter, 1987, p.97-119 For example on a klismos chair, Victoria and Albert Museum W.21-1958 and see also P. Noon, English...
Global Information