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A horizon chair and lighting Outdoor patio chair covers will help keep your outdoor chairs safe from the weather. Table lamps usually sit on an end table next to a chair. The earliest known form of Greek chair, going back to five or six centuries before Christ, had a back but stood straight up, front and back. On the frieze of the Parthenon Zeus occupies a square seat with a bar-back and thick turned legs; it is ornamented with winged sphinxes and the feet of beasts. The characteristic Roman chairs were of marble, also adorned with sphinxes. The curule chair was originally very similar in form to the modern folding chair, but eventually received a good deal of ornament.
The most
famous of the very few chairs which have come down from a remote
antiquity is the reputed chair of St. Peter in St Peter's Basilica at
Rome. The wooden portions are much decayed, but it would appear to be
Byzantine work of the 6th century, and to be really an ancient sedia
gestatoria. It has ivory carvings representing the labours of Hercules.
A few pieces of an earlier oaken chair have been let in; the existing
one, Gregorovius says, is of acacia wood. The legend that this was the
curdle chair of the senator Pudens is necessarily apocryphal. It is not,
as is popularly supposed, enclosed in Gian Lorenzo Bernini's bronze
chair, but is kept under triple lock and exhibited only once in a
century. Byzantium, like Greece and Rome, affected the curule form of
chair, and in addition to lions’ heads and winged figures of Victory (or
Nike) and dolphin-shaped arms used also the lyre-back which has been
made familiar by the pseudo-classical revival of the end of the 18th
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