2 Chairs By Van Gogh

The two paintings of Vincent's and Paul Gauguin's chairs are among the most often analyzed of Van Gogh's works. These companion paintings have attracted much attention because of the symbolic interpretations underlying the subject matter.

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Cuckoo clocks

Friedrich Eisenlohr (1805–1854), professor of architecture at Karlsruhe Polytechnic, designed a case for Black Forest clocks in 1850-51 based on the gatekeeper lodges he had designed and built for the Badenian Rhine Valley Railroad. It proved to be an extremely successful design. Bahnhausle clocks can still be found in many clock and souvenir shops all over the world. Their story is worth telling.

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Rocking chair history

We all know that the rocking chair is a distinctly american passion, its origins, however, are less clear. Adding skates or rockers to the bottom of chairs probably evolved from the cradle and the rocking horse, which both predate the rocking chair. apparently no one thought to apply the idea to furniture for adults until the eighteenth century.

The word 'rocker' originated in the 15th century and indicated the person responsible for rocking the cradle. In the 18th century it also meant an orator who put others to sleep. Anyway, it was not until 1787 that the earliest dated citation ' ROCKING CHAIR' appeared in the oxford english
dictionary for usage.

Delicious history of rocking chairs