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| Entrance of Louvre housing Musée des Arts décoratifs ( Museum of Decorative Arts). Paris, France. | Sgabello (stool) carved with mask & baskets of fruit (16thC) from Venice at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Armchairs (1700s) upholstered with tapestries at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Wheelchair (c1700-10) as leather covered armchair with reclining back & crank for motion at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. |
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| Circular chair for three (Indiscret) in Second Empire style covered in silk damask (1852-70) by Benjamin Deguil & Benjamin-Paul Ramillon at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Sculpted armchair (c1875) by Luigi Frullini of Florence at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Art Nouveau chaise longue for Nozal mansion (c1903) by Hector Guimard of Paris at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Art Nouveau child's high chair (1897) by Jean Dampt of Paris at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. |
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| Chair with carved backrest as basket of fruit (c1912) by Paul Frédéric Follot of Paris at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Armchair c1912 by Louis Süe & Paul Huillard for Maison Damon et Berteaux of Paris at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Chaise longue supported by deer (c1925) from Jeanne Lanvin's Apt. by Armand-Albert Rateau at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Modern chair inspired by Africa (c1924) by Pierre Legrain of Paris at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. |
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| Reading armchair with fixed reclining back & flip up light source (1925-8) by Pierre Legrain at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Armchairs (l) office chair with black tubular arms (1927) by René Herbst & (r) art deco chair with aluminum arms (1929) by Charlotte Alix & Louis Sognot at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Cantilevered tubular armchair (1932) by Georges-Henri Pingusson at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Armchair & table of thermoformed & tempered glass (1937) by René Coulon of Paris for Saint-Gobain (shown Paris Expo 1937) at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. |
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| Series of office chairs (1930s-50s) by Jean Prouvé of France at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Collection of modern chairs (1900-1962) at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Collection of modern chairs (1900-1962) at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Collection of modern chairs (1900-1962) at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. |
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| Collection of modern chairs (1900-1962) at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Chair (1904) by Josef Hoffmann; tubular armchair (1927) by Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe: & woven chair (1942) by Jacques Dumond at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Wooden African-style chair (1946-7) by Alexandre Noll at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Leather chair (1952) by Pierre Paulin from France at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. |
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| Artificial leather chair & desk (c1950) by Jacques Adnet from France (shown Brussels EXPO 1958) at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Amphitheater seat with writing desk (1952) by Jean Prouvé from Nancy at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Eames armchair 679 & footrest 671 (1956) by Charles & Ray Eames of USA at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Armchairs orange (1964) by Joe Colombo of Italy & white Tulip (1955-6) by Eero Saarinen from Finland at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. |
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| Fireside chair Joker (1959) by Olivier Mourgue of France; X-chair (1961) by Peter Hvidt & Orla Molgaard-Nielsen of Denmark; & Tripod PK9 (1961) by Poul Kjaerholm of Denmark at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Bulle armchair (1968 & 70) by Christian Daninos of France at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Plia chair (1970) by Giancarlo Piretti of Italy & Albatross armchair (1969) by Danielle Quarante of France at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Chair ON1 (1971) by Oscar Niemeyer of Brazil at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. |
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| Armchair Limande (1971) by Kwok Hoi Chan of France at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Easy Edges chair (1972) by Frank O. Gehry of USA at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Poltrona di Proust armchair (1979) by Alessandro Mendina of Italy surrounded by vases by 99 artists at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. | Three chairs by Philippe Starck of France at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. |
