Famous chair website
Used for ceremony, relaxing, a symbol of power, for award ceremonies, and quiz shows some take on fame that only the very a list of celebrities could crave.
A chair is a piece of furniture for sitting, consisting of a seat, a back, and sometimes arm rests, commonly for use by one person. Chairs also often have four legs to support the seat raised above a floor. Without back and arm rests it is called a stool. A chair for more than one person is a couch, sofa, settee, loveseat, Recliner (two-seater without arm rest in between) or bench. A separate footrest for a chair is known as an ottoman, hassock or poof. A chair mounted in a vehicle or in a theatre is simply called a seat. Chairs as furniture typically can be moved.
Speaker's Chair
In parliament a Speaker's Chair is used by the speaker from where to control the debate.
Britain
The visual equivalent to the Royal Throne in the House of Commons is the Speakers Chair. Pictorial evidence suggests that this remained stylistically the same in the 18th century - a large armchair raised from the ground, upholstered in green leather or velvet, and positioned in front of carved wood. This was surmounted by a royal coat of arms .The Speakers Chair is used every day when the House of Commons is in session. The Royal Throne only once a year, for the State Opening.
Pugin's Speaker's Chair was based on a medieval bishops chair, made in plain, carved oak. Like the Royal Throne, the Speakers Chair established the authority and precedence of the occupant over everyone else assembled in the chamber.
Australian House of Representatives. The chair is set at end of a horse shaped parlaiment.
Throne
A throne is the official chair or seat upon which a monarch is seated on state or ceremonial occasions. Throne in an abstract sense can also refer to the monarchy or the Crown itself, an instance of metonymy, and is also used in many terms such as the power behind the throne.
The Throne of Apollo in Amyclae
St.
Edward's Chair in Westminster Abbey, London, where British monarchs are crowned.
the Stone of Scone (also called the Stone of Destiny) upon
which the Kings of Scotland were crowned
The Throne of Charlemagne in the
cathedral at Aachen, Germany
The papal sedia gestatoria
the
Golden Stool of the Ashanti
the Dragon Throne of the Emperors of China
the
Chrysanthemum Throne of the Emperors of Japan
the Phoenix Throne of the Kings
of Korea
the Lion Throne of the Dalai Lama of Tibet
the Lion Throne of
Sikkim
the stone throne of King Kasyapa from SriLanka from the 5th century
citadel of Sigiri
the stone throne of King Nissankamalla from Sri Lanka from
the 12th century Polonnaruwa kingdom
the Peacock Throne of the Mughal Emperors,
later became:
the Peacock Throne of the Persian Shahs
the Takht-e Marmar
of the Persian Shahs
the Peacock Throne of Korea
the Peacock throne at
Montchobo, then at Ava, ancient capitals of Burma
the Saridhaleys 'ivory throne'
and the sighsana 'lion throne' of the Maldives sultanate
the sandalwood throne,
at Bikaner Fort
award ceremonies - quiz shows
The Chairing of the Bard is one of the most important events in the Welsh festival eisteddfod. The most famous chairing ceremony takes place at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, and is always on the Thursday afternoon of Eisteddfod week. the chair is given to the winner of the contest each year, and is designed for the
mastermind
- One black chair
Mastermind is a British quiz show, known for its challenging
questions. Each contestant has two minutes per round, first each contestant in
turn answers questions on their specialised subject then on general knowledge
questions.
The Chair
A BBC TV show where you are asked to regulate your heart rate while answering lots of questions? Presented by McEnroe
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis is part of The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C.S. Lewis. It was the fourth book published and is the sixth book chronologically. It is the first book, and one of two books in the series, in which the Pevensie children do not appear
Curule chair
.In the Roman Republic, and later the empire, the curule chair (Latin, sella curulis) was the chair upon which senior magistrates or promagistrates owning imperium were entitled to sit including dictators, masters of the horse, consuls, praetors, and the curule aediles. Additionally, the Flamen of Iuppiter (Flamen Dialis), was also allowed to sit on a sella curulis, though this position lacked imperium. In the latter Republic, Caesar the Dictator was entitled to sit upon a curule chair made of gold.
Van
Gogh's Chair
1888
working in the company of Gauguin at Arles. It was retouched early in 1889.