New Folding Chairs

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Today’s folding chair is lightweight and functional. It’s easy to transport, stack, and store. A high-quality chair is also durable and comfortable. It offers a practical and efficient solution to seating anywhere from a very small to a very large group of people at indoor and outdoor events under a wide variety of different circumstances.

It can accommodate almost any seating need, from those of a temporary audience of 5 to 500 people, to those of a solitary camper on a weekend hike or a sunbather on vacation at the beach. One of the major advantages is its flexibility—no pun intended—because the number of seats available can easily be adjusted as the need for seating increases or decreases. Chairs that are not needed can be left folded up, thus freeing up space, and unfolded one at a time as needed. This feature can come in handy for the small classroom as much as it can for the big outdoor sporting event.

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We are all used to seeing them wherever we go. They may even be brought into fancy conference rooms to mingle with their impressive leather-upholstered cousins. They are so common in the world today, we may take them for granted, but what would the world be like without them? If you leave them out in the sun or out in the winter be sure to cover them with patio furniture covers.

Folding Chairs in History

No one knows exactly when they were invented, but once they were, for many centuries they were prized as a status symbol and regarded as one of the most important pieces of household furniture.

The folding chair did not always exist. No one knows exactly when they were invented, but once they were, for many centuries they were prized as a status symbol and regarded as one of the most important pieces of household furniture. The foldable chair was not used simply for sitting on, either, at first, but also for conducting religious, military, and clan ceremonies. It was literally the seat of honor. Today, the only folding chair that stirs the imagination beyond the mundane is the Hollywood director’s chair, which is associated with celebrity and glamor.

Before stools and chairs, the leader of a tribe or clan probably sat on a stump or rock and the tribesmen sat or squatted on the ground below him, thus establishing the clan hierarchy. The earliest records on man made seating devices come from Mesopotamia, where sculptures and cylinder seals from 3500 to 2800 B.C. show people sitting on various types of benches and stools. The stools were boxy with seats of woven rush and carved bull legs. From 2600 to 1150 B.C., stools were depicted with straight legs and a forward-sloping seat of five to ten degrees. Today’s ergonomists promote the forward-sloping seat as a way of maintaining good posture without strain. The cross-legged stool didn’t appear in Mesopotamia until about 2370 B.C. Until about 1595, stools were the main furniture depicted in Mesopotamian households.

Thank goodness we have portable chairs today. Or else my wife would have me sitting in the dirt.