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Cabriolet or
Louis XV style armchair •
Campaign chair, designs made to facilitate travel, historically for military campaigns •
Campeche chair, a 19th-century Mexican lounge chair, popular in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the American South. It has X-shaped sides and a sling seat and back made of leather, cane or wood slats. Similar to a planter's chair, but without the extended arms. •
Camping chair, lightweight folding design typically with a with a fabric seat and backrest •
Cantilever chair, has no back legs; for support its seat and back cantilever off the top of the front legs (see:
Cesca chair) •
Captain's chair, was originally a low-backed wooden armchair; today the term is often applied to adjustable individual
seats in a car with
arm rests •
Caquetoire, also known as a conversation chair, used in the European Renaissance, was developed for women because it was wider so women's fashions at the time could fit into it; this is demonstrated by the U-shaped arms •
Car chair, a
car seat in an automobile in which either the pilot or passenger sits, customarily in the forward direction. Many car chairs are adorned in leather or synthetic material designed for comfort or relief from the noted stress of being seated. Variants include a toddler's or infant's carseat, which are often placed atop an existing chair and secured by way of extant
seat belts or other such articles. • Carver chair, similar to a Brewster chair and from the same region and period •
Cathedra, a bishop's ceremonial chair •
Centripetal Spring Armchair, 19th-century office chair •
Cesca chair ("Breuer chair"), designed by
Marcel Breuer for
Knoll • Chaise a bureau, a Rococo style of chair, created during the first half of the 18th century, constructed so it could sit in a corner of a room (there is one leg directly in the back and one directly in the front, and then one leg on each side) •
Chandigarh chair, designed by
Eulie Chowdhury,
Pierre Jeanneret, et al. in the 1950s for use in the public buildings of the new city of Chandigarh. • Chaperone chair, a three-seat chair from the 1800s that allowed a
chaperone to observe a courting couple (see:
Courting chair) •
Chaise longue (French for "long chair"), a chair with a seat long enough to completely support its user's legs. In the U.S., it is often mistakenly referred to as a 'chaise lounge'. Similar, if not identical to, a
day bed,
fainting couch, or
récamier. •
Chesterfield chair, a low club-style chair with a fully buttoned or tufted interior, typically made of leather •
Chiavari chair, designed in 1870 by
Giuseppe Gaetano Descalzi of
Chiavari in Italy. The chair is lightweight, has elegant lines, yet is strong, practical and easy to handle. '' chairs •
Club chair, a plush easy chair with a low back. The heavy sides form armrests that are usually as high as the back. The modern club chair is based upon the club chairs used by the popular and fashionable urban gentlemen's clubs of 1850s England. • Cockfighting chair, an 18th-century chair for libraries where the seat and arms were shaped so that a reader could sit astride to use a small desk attached to the back. Despite its popular name a sketch from 1794 in the
Gillow archives lists it as a "Reading Chair". • Coconut chair, 1955 design by
George Nelson for
Herman Miller • Cogswell chair, a brand of upholstered easy chairs. It has a sloping back and curved and ornamental front legs. The armrests are open underneath. •
Commode chair, a chair with the discreet functionality of a toilet for people with limited mobility. •
Corner chair, made to fit into a corner and has a rectangular base with a high back on two adjacent sides; one sits with legs straddling a corner of the base •
Coronation Chair, an ancient wooden chair on which
British monarchs sit when they are invested with regalia and crowned at
their coronations. •
Curule chair was a folding cross-framed seat that developed hieratic significance in Republican Rome. The shape of its legs was revived in the Empire style. ==D==