Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Furnishings (hierarchy name)
5. furnishings (works)
6. [furnishings by form or function]
7. furniture
8. [furniture by form or function]
9. seating furniture
10. single seating furniture
11. chairs (furniture forms)
12. [chairs by function]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Furnishings
5. furnishings
6. furnishings by form or function
7. furniture
8. furniture by form or function
9. seating furniture
10. single seating furniture
11. chairs
12. chairs by form
13. armchairs

Narrower term/s

• student chairs

Anotations

Scope note:

Comfortable chairs for reading, particularly 18th-century armchairs with padded, leather-covered, saddle-shaped seats and an adjustable platform to hold a book projecting from the back; designed so that the occupant may either sit on it in a normal way or straddle the seat facing the back. For adjustable reading platforms that are not attached to chairs, use "reading desks." For backward-facing chairs intended for viewing card games, use "voyeuses."