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 form]
13. armchairs

Narrower term/s

• Brewster chairs
• Carver chairs

Anotations

Scope note:

Armchairs designed to be the largest pieces of furniture in a sitting room, particularly common in 17th-century Britain and America. They are made of wood, usually with conspicuous carvings and occasionally with upholstered seats. They may resemble a throne.