Folding chair
Folding chairs , also called folding chairs or folding seats , are collapsible chairs . These chairs have been popular since ancient times because they are easy to transport. Be it in a war camp, on trips, walks or during artistic and scientific work outdoors. Therefore the folding chair was also called field chair .
history
Folding chairs were already used in ancient Egypt , Greece or Rome . The curular chair of the Roman magistrates was just as much a folding chair as the seat of the emperor. The frame was mostly made of wood, less often of metal. The wood was decorated with artistic carvings, animal heads and feet, gilded and inlaid with ivory . The seat was either made of stuff , leather and the like, or slats , which also folded up when the chair was folded up.
Archaeological excavations from Northern Europe have known the remains of at least 18 folding stools from the Nordic Bronze Age , including the folding stool from Guldhøj (Denmark), whose wood has been completely preserved, and the folding stool from Daensen , whose characteristic metal fittings have been preserved.
The folding chair was particularly popular in the Middle Ages. Here it was valued as a liturgical piece of furniture. The Faldistorium or Faldistolium was the folding chair of the bishops (if they were not entitled to use the throne), the prelates and the abbots in all pontifical acts . Since the 15th and 16th centuries, the folding chair mostly has side and backrests.
Today, folding chairs are used where easy portability and space-saving storage are important. Indoors for flexible seating in event rooms, outdoors as a garden and camping chair (e.g. Swedish chair ) and often in beer gardens . The beer garden chairs used there have a metal frame on which the seat and backrest made of wooden slats (recently also plastic) are attached. The rainwater can run off through the space between these slats, so that the chairs dry more quickly and rot from water standing on the wooden surface is less likely to occur.
The “classic director's chair” is also a folding chair. Different materials are used depending on the requirements: wood , metals , plastics , textiles .
function
Medieval folding chairs were folded up like an X on the side armrests. Modern folding chairs are usually folded up at the seat.
safety
Special care is required when using folding chairs. Injuries, especially severe bruises to fingers and hands, are common problems when setting up and dismantling folding / folding chairs.
gallery
Folding stool from Guldhøj, Denmark (around 1400 BC)
Dagobert throne , France, 7th century, Cabinet des médailles , Paris
Japanese folding stool
Lightweight folding chair made of plastic
Pocket stool from GDR production, folded up
Pocket stool from GDR production, stretched
Camping folding chair
Folding armchair made of wood
Folding chair
Demarcation
The folding seat differs from the folding chair in that it is fixed to a wall or floor. The folding chair is free-standing and can be moved individually without loosening screws.
literature
- Alfred A. Schmid: Faldistorium , in: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte , Vol. 6, 1973, Sp. 1219–1237
Web links
- Faldistory. In: PW Hartmann: Das Große Kunstlexikon , on BeyArs.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Willi Wegewitz : The folding chair from Daensen . In: The Adventure of Archeology . Isensee, Oldenburg 1994, ISBN 3-89442-230-0 , p. 187–193 (Here the folding stool by Guldhøj is called the folding stool by Vamdrup. Official name according to the Danish National Museum but the folding stool by Guldhøj).
- ↑ Injuries from folding chairs
- ↑ En klapstol fra bronzealderen on the Danish National Museum