List of Chairs - F

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• Farthingale chair, an armless chair with a wide seat covered in usually high-quality fabric and fitted with a cushion. The backrest is an upholstered panel, with legs that are straight and rectangular. It was introduced as a chair for ladies in the late 16th century and was named in England, probably in the 19th century, for its ability to accommodate the exceptionally wide-hooped skirts known to accommodate the women's apparel of the time.
• Fauteuil, an open-arm chair with considerable exposed wood, originating in 18th century France
• Fiddleback chair is a wooden chair of the Empire period, usually with an uphostered seat, in which the splat resembles a fiddle.
• Fighting chair is a chair on a boat used by anglers to catch large saltwater fish. The chair typically swivels and has a harness to keep the angler strapped in should the fish tug hard on the line.
• Folding chair collapses in some way for easy storage and transport. Various folding chairs have their own names (e.g., deckchair, director's chair), but a chair described simply as a folding chair folds a rigid frame and seat around a transverse axis so that the seat becomes parallel to the back and the frame collapses with a scissors action. Some further collapse the feet up to the back. Folding chairs may be designed to stack on top of each other when folded and may come with special trolleys to move stacks of folded chairs. Folding chairs are used in professional wrestling as a weapon.
• Friendship bench, a special place in a school playground where a child can go when he or she wants someone to talk to