Chaises

Those in chaises and chariots are in at least one way like political critics, of either the 1830s or our own day: they look before and after, and pine for what is not. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Fat old French gentlemen spread themselves out in chaises longues and make all necessary preparations for sea-sickness. ❋ Unknown (1891)

You might have to shop around for a good price, but "les chaises en valent certainement la peine" (= sure, the chairs are worthwhile). ❋ Unknown (2010)

I once went through a museum exhibit totally devoted to chaises longues, and their relationship to architecture. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The beach restaurant and open-air nightclub, run by garrulous local chef and demi-celeb Guy Ferdinand, has an overhead water misting system to keep guests cool at their tables, and rents super-wide chaises longues for 10 euros per day cocktail included. ❋ Chris Nuttall-Smith (2011)

Jean-Marc and I left our chaises-longues* and headed for the snack bar to get some sandwiches. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There was a volleyball game being played on the lawn, eating at the tables on the patio, people lying on chaises poolside, and even quite a few in the pool enjoying the water. ❋ Shamara Ray (2011)

Two all-weather-wicker chaises face each other under the main gable. ❋ Nancy McKeon (2010)

Newhouse set of not one, not two but three chaises longues, which do hint at the reclining so regularly practiced by voluptuary Romans as their civilization advanced down history's slippery slope. ❋ David Finkle (2011)

This piece will please not only lovers of radical design, but also all those who are seduced by a multiplicity of possible sitting positions, and the as yet unheard-of conviviality offered by its colourful, unbridled compositions with evocative names such as the ‘Toi et moi’ (‘You and me’) love seat, the ‘small conversation settee’ and ‘large conversation settee’, or the 4-seat settee with two integral chaises longue. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Each day throwing off their royal blue fleece-effect blankets, rising yawning from their modular chaises, each day exploring their fellow forgotten men's eyes and bodies and emotions, each day discovering new ways of living sans femme. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I'm not sure I could have seen Harry — who, once his son Menzo was a teenager, moved from the lawn overlooking the baby pool to the chaises under the trees beside the grown-up pool — at the Excelsior. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2010)

The entire VIP room of this club was done up like an opium den—gauzy fabric hanging from the ceiling, thick velvet chaises, lots of giant silk pillows on the floor. ❋ Ed Decter (2010)

As soon as we got out of the stuffy hotel, with its floral print chaises longues and heavy damask curtains, Dergham relaxed. ❋ Thanassis Cambanis (2010)

Full-sized coaches stood beside lighter buggies, phaetons, rockaways, and chaises. ❋ Eric Jaffe (2010)