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    A klismos (Greek: κλισμός) or klismos chair is a type of ancient Greek chair, with curved backrest and tapering, outcurved legs. Klismoi are familiar...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Reinach commissioned exact copies of ancient Grecian chairs, tabourets and klismos furniture kept in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples from the...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    classical forms that were more authentic. The type of Greek chair called the klismos became especially popular; Jacob produced a variety of neoclassical divans...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Pausanias. Less extravagant though more influential in later periods is the klismos (Greek singular: κλισμός), an elegant Greek chair with a curved backrest...
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  • 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...
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    the same purpose today. Several American Empire-style sofas, a set of klismos chairs, carved black walnut Renaissance Revival-style chairs for the Senate...
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    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...
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    woman in academic robes. She stands in front of a stylized throne, or klismos, with her arms outstretched in welcome. The attendant figure "Labor" is...
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  • together, they created the Klismos line of furniture, which drew heavily on classical forms, including the namesake klismos chair. It is still in production...
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  • by Véronique Dasen. Phanostratê is depicted in a seated position on a klismos (on the right) and shaking hands with Antiphilê (on the left, in a codified...
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    with white paint. Within the naiskos, there is an old man seated on a klismos and a standing warrior with a Chalcidian helmet holding a horse via the...
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  • Painter Kleophrades Painter Panathenaic prize amphora Kleos Kleroterion Klismos Knossos Know thyself Koalemos Kobalos Kodapeis Koine Greek Koine Greek...
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    period-specific furnishing portrayed in Davis’s paintings are the neoclassical Klismos Chair (as seen in the Portrait of Sylvanus C. Foss and Mary Jane Foss,...
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    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...
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    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...
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    height. Jefferson is depicted wearing 18th-century clothes, sitting in a klismos chair and holding "papers of state in hand." According to Ferdinand Schevill...
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    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)...
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