Word: chaired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Gaylord P. Harnwell pondered the pixyish offer from a local lawyer and his clients to put up $500,000 for an endowed professorship of taxation, finally announced that his school had no intention of honoring the name of the late Mobster Al Capone with this particular chair...
...director, however, must bear some responsibilty here. If an actor is to play the Fishmonger Scene sprawling in a comfortable chair, his leg thrown casually over its arm, it will not be easy for him to give the impression that he has something on his mind. Mr. Benthall has cut Hamlet's line about the murdered Polonius: "I'll lug the guts into the neighbor room"--and this is a sure sign that he intended to give us not Shakespeare's Hamlet, goaded by a magnificent saeve indignatio, but the charming exquisite foisted on us by certain critics...
...Eames argues soberly that "to the designer, the chair provides an area where he can follow through with an architectural concept and test it directly in terms of human scale and function." But the man whose chairs stand in over 1,000,000 homes unabashedly admires the old along with the new, perches himself on a stub-legged Indian chair in the house he designed for himself in Venice, Calif. His dining room (background] is furnished with his prize-winning 1944 chair. And, his black leather chair near by frankly owes a great deal to the Victorian functionalist, William Morris...
Charles Eames's plywood-and-steel side chair, designed...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's 1929 Barcelona chair...