The furnishings were of horsehair, so that rough clothes could spoil nothing.|Your box shall be sent next week by sea. You will find in it some pieces of the broom bush, which you saw growing on the old castle of Auchinleck. The wood has a curious appearance when sawn across.|The images...immediately captivated me; but nonetheless I fell asleep in the green velvet armchair I had pulled up.|It is important, therefore, that we should live in rooms and on chairs built to our measure by the most skilled upholsterers.|“No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!”.|I also have intense relationships with furniture...probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.|The best pair of Scottish 18th century chairs I've ever seen.|A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easy. That is why Chippendale is famous.|When I was a kid, all I knew was that I felt more comfortable sitting in one chair than in another. And now I realize it was because one chair was older. I still respond directly to the age of things.|In his hill bothy he made his porridge once a week in the big bothy pot and then poured it into the drawer of a chest - there to be cut into cold slices when he needed it.|She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season.|For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music.|I don’t particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums|First Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs
And Luxury the accomplish’d Sopha last|A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world|I have been black and blue, in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture|No animal should ever swing up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in conversation|We’re all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly|Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life copying a chair|If it’s the right chair, it doesn’t take too long to get comfortable in it|If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring your own chair|He had something of the reflective air of a pelican|They wandered back to the house, and Janet gave him tea in a room full of faded chintzes and Chinese-Chippendale mirrors.|"I am sorry that my chairs all have wood seats, and are rather hard, but I was thinking of getting some new ones"... "They are quite easy enough for me" Adrian Bell Corduroy 1930|James Boswell to Dr Johnson, 1773|W G Sebald|John Maynard Keynes from The Influence of Furniture on Love, unpublished essay 1909|Arthur Conan Doyle|Barbra Streisand|James Hardie|Mies van der Rohe|Robert Redford|Quoted by Timothy Neat in The Horseman's Word|P.G. Wodehouse, Carry on, Jeeves|Sam Shepard|Zaha Hadid|William Cowper|Jane Austen, from Persuasion|Frank Lloyd Wright|Fran Leibowitz|John Hurt|Alberto Giacometti|Robert de Niro|Anon|Osbert Lancaster on Lytton Strachey|John Buchan from John Macnab|Thomas Hardy's Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba in Far From the Madding Crowd