3 models of chairs with backrests to make yourself

My home is always open for you! This is my dining room. All the furniture in it is oak. This is a chair - they sit on it. This is the table - they eat at it.

Marshak Samuil Yakovlevich “Cat House”

Everyone remembers these words and the fairy tale itself from their happy childhood. This is a small piece of the play “Cat's House”, the first version of which was written back in 1922. Surely no one asks the question of what a chair is, how and when it appeared. It has become so familiar and commonplace. Therefore, let's look at the chair from a historical point of view.

What is a chair?

A chair is a piece of furniture, with a seat and a back, designed to sit one person.

The history of the origin of the stool. When and how did it appear in Russia? Detailed history of the stool and its structure.

The chair is a middle option between a stool and an armchair. The difference is that the stool has only a seat and does not have a back and armrests. And an armchair, unlike a chair, has, in addition to a back, also armrests and arms on the sides, on which you rest your elbows.

Chairs are the most common type of seating furniture today. There are a great many types and models of chairs, but we will try to classify chairs a little later.

Additional classification of chairs:

• by appointment;
• by design;
• by style.

A chair is furniture that, more than any other type, has been influenced by fashion and the development of progress.

Why is a chair not a stool?

At first glance, it seems that the chair is just a stool with a backrest. But it’s the back that makes it completely different from a stool from a mechanical point of view: people lean on it, or even fall apart. If a stool can generally be considered something solid, working primarily on compression; well, even for bending and shear when rocking, then in a chair the loads from the junction of the longitudinal drawers with the rear legs are much higher, of a different nature and spread throughout the structure in a rather bizarre way. Therefore, by the way, as a rule, they do not install transverse legs in chairs: they will not work in the structure, only the excess material will go away.

The chair is finished using common methods for furniture: tinting with stains, varnishing, painting, veneering, upholstery. But technologically, chairs differ from stools in the following ways:

• The nature of most of the compounds used.
• The choice of wood - most of all.
• Assembly method.
• Soft seat device.

Etymology of the word "CHAIR"

The exact etymology of the word is unknown, but it is believed that the word is an Old Russian loanword. If we compare the spelling, we see the following:

• Old Icelandic – Stóll;
• German – Stuhl;
• Crimean-Gothic – stul.

The spelling and pronunciation are almost the same, so it is generally accepted that the word came from the Germanic languages.

The specialist carpenter who made chairs was called a “chairmaker” or “chairmaker.”

Other characteristics

According to its characteristics, feces in an adult are directly related to lifestyle and nutrition. What causes an unpleasant odor? Pay attention to what you've been eating more frequently lately. A foul odor is also associated with taking certain medications and can manifest itself as a symptom of some kind of inflammatory process. In cases of food absorption disorders (Crohn's disease, cystic fibrosis, celiac disease), this symptom also appears.

Floating stool in itself should not be a cause for concern. If the floating stool has a very unpleasant odor or contains a lot of fat, this is a symptom of poor absorption of nutrients in the intestine. In this case, body weight is quickly lost.

History of the chair

So we get to the history of the appearance of chairs.

In the historical annals there is no exact indication of the date and place of birth of the chair. But, judging by historical references, we can assume that the ancient Egyptians invented chairs. According to drawings and finds during excavations, the found fragments and entire pieces of furniture, including chairs, are attributed to the Third Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, which is the 3rd millennium BC. Finds from those times looked massive, usually cubic in shape. Only later, at the beginning of the “friendship” of the Egyptian peoples with the peoples of Middle Asia and under the influence of fashion, culture and tastes of those places and times, the chair begins to change shape. The design becomes more sophisticated, the legs are curved or curly. Cushions appear on the seats and backs for comfort. A little later, people invented folding chairs, which used a piece of leather as a seat, and metal stools were used in military campaigns.

The drawings of the Second Dynasty of Ancient Egypt show simple chairs, the legs and backs of which are straight, with a cushion on the seat. In everyday life, chairs with cross-shaped legs are widely used. But in Assyria, the shapes of chairs become more intricate. The silhouette of the chair itself is rounded or curved. The legs often look like animal paws.

Chairs for the nobility and royalty, throne chairs were decorated with carvings, precious metals and stones, and covered with exquisite carpets.

People are eating less and less while lying on carpets. The habit of eating food at tables, sitting on chairs, has become commonplace.

Chairs come from neighbors and to Greece. In Ancient Greece there were no special requirements for the type and materials of chairs; all types and shapes of chairs from Egypt and Assyria were used here at the same time.

Ancient Rome made some changes to the structure of chairs. In theaters, the lack of benches is compensated for by light folding chairs. And the chairs themselves are starting to be made with armrests or even without a back, but with armrests. Various shapes of chair seats are used: square, rectangular, round, oval and triangular. They began to make furniture, in particular, chairs from willow twigs and wicker.

Europe could not do without comfortable furniture and also borrowed such an item as a chair. The form of mass furniture was absolutely identical to the Roman one, but for kings and persons of high rank, not only the chairs, but also the rest of the furniture copied the style of India. Such furniture was luxuriously decorated with stones, metals and elaborate carvings. The seats were often not round, but polygonal, five or hexagonal. The back of such a chair could cover almost all edges. The space between the legs of such a rich chair was covered with a sculpture or tile carved from wood depicting an animal or the coat of arms of the family.

In the 15th century, engineering invented chairs with a swivel seat and chairs with wheels at the ends of the legs for rolling chairs. And in the 16th century, they began to make cheap furniture for common people; reeds were used in chairs to soften the seat and back. The chair in Europe is becoming the main furniture for sitting, displacing stools, benches and chests in the form of low boxes for storing things and sitting at the same time.

In Europe of the Middle Ages, chairs for special occasions were complemented by a canopy, for example, the cross-shaped chair with a canopy common in Italy is known today as the Savonarola chair.

In Holland in the 17th century, chairs with cross-shaped legs for everyday use came into fashion and were widely made. And in England, Germany and France, such chairs were intended for ceremonies. A little later, in England, the aristocracy began to use upholstered chairs, the Farthingale style. Such a chair had a gap between the seat and the back, thanks to which ladies wearing dresses with whalebone cuffs could sit comfortably on it. The largest chair belonged to the head of the family. Only commoners continued to sit on wooden chairs.

The 18th century comes and Windsor style chairs come into use in England. Windsor chairs are a rustic style of furniture, with simple legs and backs and thin rods.

Michael Thonet, a furniture maker from Vienna, around the middle of the 19th century, invents an industrial, non-manual method, technology for bending wood under steam. Before this, the technology was manual, which required a certain skill and time. The cheaper and faster production of bent wood led to the fact that the previously expensive Windsor chair became relatively cheap. The "Windsor chair", a chair made of bent wood, was considered country furniture in 18th-century England. And as a result of large-scale production, now the “Viennese Chair,” as Thonet’s products were called, captivated Europe. The Viennese chair was also called a bistro chair. By 1930, more than 50,000,000 of these chairs were produced and sold in Europe.

How to make a frame?

It is worth making the entire structure from solid wood, because people often join elements together and such furniture does not last long. If it happens that there is not much material, it is better to cut it with a shift. If this is a dining structure, then the drawers should also be curved.

But the main question is how to design spikes? It's worth taking the time to work on the spikes. If there are beveled parts, then the tenons are straight. It's not that difficult. After which the homemade wooden chair will need to be milled. Everything is done in batches. For this, a mandrel with the required angle is used. First, fold the long side and only then the short side. But the corners of the spikes need to be made rounded.

Chair in Russia

In Russia, until the end of the 17th century, traditional seating furniture was used, these were chests, benches and stools. Chairs and armchairs are very scarce and are present in small quantities in very rich noble families and in royal reception chambers. Peter I begins to introduce the European way of life, and the chair becomes a common piece of furniture. It was under Peter I that a chair became an ordinary part of everyday life and interior design, and not an honorary piece of furniture that was purchased to emphasize one’s status.

In Russia in the mid-18th century there was a shortage of furniture. In simple houses, the majority continue to use benches and stools. In more prosperous families, chairs from the times of the “Petrine Baroque” also appear. These are heavy oak chairs with high backs.

At the beginning of the 19th century, fashion changed in Russia, a move away from classicism began, and it became important how the chair looked not only from the front, but also from the side. Vasily Petrovich Stasov (07/24/1769-09/05/1848), Russian architect, one of the founders of the Russian Empire style, academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts, invents a new design of chairs and armchairs with a curved profile, a side frame, a rear leg with a backrest and a front leg forming a single frame. And the right and left side frames are fastened with transverse slats. The back was fastened with a transverse plane and covered with veneer. There was a feeling that a single piece of wood was used. The seat in such chairs and armchairs was trapezoidal and embedded in the structure. Chairs of this design were comfortable, very durable, had an elegant silhouette and were at the same time easy to manufacture. Chairs designed by Stasov became the favorite furniture and the only form in merchant and noble houses for thirty years.

In the 19th century, the urban population of Russia increased significantly and continued to grow. At the same time, the demand for furniture and chairs in particular is rising. Factory production of furniture is spreading and developing and specialized furniture stores are opening, that is, if previously you turned to a craftsman and agreed on the quantity and type of furniture, now you could go into the store and buy a ready-made set of furniture, a missing item or a necessary part. For the first time, chintz is used for upholstery of chairs.

Having become saturated with European styles, furniture with elements of Russian style came into fashion in Russia in the last third of the 19th century. These are all the same shapes and models, for example, for a home dining room, heavy oak rectangular chairs were purchased, but with the addition of brocade or leather upholstery and carved wooden elements decorated with Russian folk patterns, this is how the popular style of furniture “à la russe” appeared.

At the end of the 19th century, furniture in fashion was more familiar to our eyes, according to historical films and museums, this is the furniture of Heinrich Daniel Gumbs (1765-1831). A furniture maker from the town of Neuwied in Prussia and who worked in St. Petersburg. Heinrich Gumbs is the founder of a large family of furniture makers, whose products in Russia received the general name of Gumbs furniture. The chairs made by Gumbs were very comfortable, with soft quilted upholstery on the seat and back.

Let’s finish the history of the chair here and consider what types of chairs there are and why they were invented.

Notes

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Chair design

Each chair consists of a seat, legs and back. The back of a chair can be called a shield or a leaner.

Auxiliary parts of the chair are:

• drawers - upper transverse slats that fasten the legs under the seat and can serve as a fastening for the seat;
• legs - the lower transverse slats that fasten the legs of the chair;
• bosses – corner fastenings between the legs;
• backrest - part of the chair on which the back rests;
• cap - if the chair has an upper backrest bar and a lower one, a shield with upholstery covering this space.

Usually a chair has four legs, but there are designs with cross-shaped legs in the shape of the letter “X” or panel ones, for example, a cantilever chair, where the front and back legs are not separated, but are a single piece of wood or plywood.

Chair legs, drawers and legs are the frame of the chair.

The back of the chair can be a continuation of the rear legs or be a separate structural element. The back of the chair can be solid, through or made of slats.

The main parameters when choosing a chair are:

• chair back height;
• chair height by seat;
• chair width;
• chair depth.

The height of the chair over the seat is required to determine comfort in relation to the height of the table.

Also, chairs vary in hardness and are divided into hard, semi-hard, semi-soft and soft.

The back of the chair can be the same in rigidity as the seat, or more rigid or softer.

By style, chairs are determined by size, width and depth, height of the back and seat, shape of the back and seat, upholstery, its quality and material or lack of upholstery, and the shape and type of legs.

Also, chairs are distinguished by the material from which they are made and the manufacturing method:

• carpentry - if the parts for the chair are cut from a whole solid wood, hardwood or softwood;
• bent - in the case of steam processing of wood and bending of workpieces;
• wicker - if there are parts or the entire base is woven from willow, reed, straw, vines or rattan;
• metal – if the frame is made of metal;
• combined - when using several types of material.

The Russian classifier adds a few more divisions:

• glued and bent-glued - used to reduce the cost of production and the products themselves; in production, not solid bent wood is used, but bent veneer;
• flat-laminated – plywood is used:
• stick - a type of wicker, but when weaving, sticks are used, not necessarily of the same material;
• molding - in the manufacture of casting from metal, polymers or glass;
• combined ones are divided by purpose - children's, piano, bar, etc.

The material from which the chairs are made and their design features influence the scope of use of the chairs; for example, wicker chairs are often used as country furniture. And chairs made of plastic, due to their lightness and often the ability to place one chair on top of another, as if strung together, saving space, are used for public events and summer street cafes.

How to make tree connections?

To make a homemade chair with your own hands, you will have to understand what a tenon and groove is. For aesthetics, do not use bolts and nuts. Remember that nails are never used at all. Because the chairs are fixed with tongue-and-groove joints invisible to the eye. To make the structure reliable, glue or wedging is used. You should not make removable legs - this will cause the structure to lose strength. Craftsmen believe that the use of wedges makes the structure reliable, but this is not so easy to do.

Not everyone can do such work. But if you figure it out, it won’t be difficult. Most often, a chisel is used, although if you have a wood cutter, the process will not take much time. Be careful with the edges of the hole to make them smoother and neater. Roundness allows to increase service life.

Oddly enough, it’s difficult to make spikes. Not everyone can carefully saw off the leg without damaging the tenon, but if this happens, this is a defect that is not allowed during operation. Again, if you don’t finish cutting and just remove the flange, the tenon will become convex and you won’t be able to insert it. Therefore, it is better to use a router. Everything will be faster and better with him.

What other types of chairs are there and how are they divided?

By purpose

• Work chair, office chair, computer chair – these chairs are designed for long hours of work. As a rule, the design of such chairs is carefully worked out not only by designers, but also by orthopedists. These chairs are equipped with wheels for convenient movement at the desk and mechanisms for adjusting the seat height and back angle.
• A piano stool is a heavy chair with a cast base and a swivel seat without a backrest.
• Children's chair - there are many varieties of materials, but the main feature is the height of the chair. Each children's chair must indicate the approximate age of the child and the height for which the chair is intended.
• The bar stool appeared at the border of the 18th-19th centuries at the time of the arrival of a huge number of migrants to the “New World”. It is not known exactly, but it is believed that it was invented in the United States during the massive heyday of saloons. A bar stool is about 80 centimeters high, often without or with a low back, usually with a round seat. Be sure to have a shelf for your feet. The number of legs is 1, 3 and 4.

By design

• 
  A saddle chair is considered orthopedic, it forces you to maintain an even posture and helps prevent many diseases of the spine. Helps proper blood circulation. Due to its unusual design, it allows a significant spread of the legs to the sides, this allows you to tilt your torso more forward, which is impossible when sitting on a regular chair.

• 
  A cantilever chair is a chair with a frame based on a closed frame made of bent metal tubes. The seat on this chair design is attached only on one side, like a console, hence the name of the chair design. The frame of the chair is springy, adding comfort when sitting on such a chair. In the English-speaking world, this design is called “cantilever chair”; in our country we use “cantilever chair”, “balancing chair”, “cantilever”. The design appeared after the advent of technology that allowed bending steel tubes, around the 20s of the 20th century. To this day, there are disputes in the courts about the primacy of the invention of several designers.

How to choose a tree?

Coniferous trees are definitely not suitable. And this is not just like that, because such a material is single-layer and will not be able to withstand the load that occurs on the chair. And it will be difficult to work with him without having masterful experience. Although just for a seat this is quite a suitable option. Here's what works best:

• Oak.
• Beech.
• Nut.
• Elm.

These are the strongest rocks and have a dense base. Birch is also often used, especially for folding versions, because it is soft. But the preparation of the material is the same as for wood - drying (just not in special installations), impregnation with harmless compounds to extend its service life.

When there is an additional tool at home - a grinder, then the whole material is taken and unraveled on it. This is a way to save money. Although you can always find anything on sale, one question remains - the price. Often there may be a defect in the wood, and it will not be possible to assemble high-quality furniture with it.

Master class: making a chair yourself

Before you create full-fledged chairs yourself, it is better to draw a diagram, think through the drawing of each detail separately, and make a small mock-up. It is advisable to purchase carpentry tools and all the necessary materials in advance - in the future they will be needed to create other furniture, interior items, and decor. In professional workshops, work is carried out using high-quality equipment, which allows you to give the ideal shape to any part, but at home you can also work with simple tools.

Materials, tools

For work you will need the following tools and materials:

• electric jigsaw - with its help it is easy to cut out a part of any shape, even the most complex;
• clamps - it is better to have several pieces of different lengths, they greatly simplify the process of gluing any parts together;
• grinding machine - designed for finishing various surfaces and corners. Sandpaper of varying degrees of grit is purchased in advance for it;
• manual router - used for high-quality processing of product edges, cutting grooves, holes for fasteners;
• screwdriver - will replace a whole set of screwdrivers, a drill, an additional set of drills of various diameters can be purchased;
• meter ruler, protractor, tape measure, square, pattern, carpenter's pencil - will be needed for marking and drawing up drawings;
• hammer, pliers;
• for ease of work, it is better to have a strong workbench;
• wood glue, bolts, self-tapping screws, screws, nails.

These tools are necessary when wood, fiberboard, or MDF are used as materials. If you plan to make a soft structure, you will additionally need scissors for cutting fabric, a sewing machine, a sharp knife for cutting foam rubber, other stuffing, threads, needles, and a furniture stapler. When the product is decided to be partially or completely made of iron or glass, equipment for cutting metal and glass will be required. For a folding chair you will need a metal rod.

It is advisable to buy any materials with a margin of about 10-15%.

Chair design - drawings, calculations

The most important point here is to accurately calculate all dimensions so that you don’t have to redo it in the future. First you need to decide what product you plan to create:

• with a backrest or a stool;
• folding or stationary;
• regular or rotating;
• flat or “saddle”;
• with armrests or footrest;
• floor or hanging.

The design of a full-fledged chair-chair sometimes consists of 15-20 parts. This is a lot of bars, boards, all kinds of planks that will have to be assembled together and adjusted to each other.

An approximate list of parts in the diagram looks like this:

• seat frame;
• side supports of the backrest;
• armrests;
• front, rear legs;
• rear, front, side, transverse legs;
• "crackers".

The back, including the soft one, is attached to the side supports, the legs and seat are connected to the frame drawers. The legs are needed for structural rigidity, as are the crackers installed in the inner, lower part of the frame. It is not necessary to make armrests - this is a standard, integral element only for chairs.

With a chair height of 45-60 cm, the armrests are made approximately 20 cm, the seat width is 40-55 cm, the back height is 35-55 cm. The bar stool is made higher - 95-105 cm, its back is 15-30 cm, the seat is 30 -40 cm.

When drawing up drawings, it is important to mark the locations for fasteners and provide for their dimensions.

Manufacturing process

The creation process itself looks like this:

• First, the legs are cut out - in the standard design there are four of them, with the back two often being a continuation of the back. They are made from bars about four cm thick;
• the seat is made of three to six boards located at a short distance, the back is made in the same way. Both elements are later supplemented with soft parts or left as is;
• all parts are carefully adjusted to each other, grooves are cut out for fasteners;
• now the structure needs to be assembled, but for now without glue;
• then arched lintels, various inserts, supports for arms and legs are made;
• If everything matches, the product is glued together and connected with self-tapping screws for strength.

The most beautiful look are the shaped parts cut out with a jigsaw, turned legs, back parts, and lower crossbars.

Assembly, finishing

When assembling, it is important that the fasteners do not protrude too much above the surface and do not pose a risk of injury. The product should be thoroughly sanded, removing any unevenness or burrs, and coated with a protective compound. This is most significant when the furniture is intended for children, who are much more likely to get injured due to their high mobility during play. All angles between perpendicularly located parts are made strictly 90 degrees - this can be easily checked using a protractor or square. The soft seat and backrest are stretched onto a finished frame or simply attached with ties.

Decoration methods

The decor of armchairs and stools depends only on the imagination of their creator. The structure can be painted in any color or even several at the same time, varnished, upholstered with fabric, painted with fancy patterns, and decorated with textured carvings. All work with strong-smelling compounds is carried out outdoors, in a well-ventilated area. To decorate a high chair with carvings, you will need a set of special knives - oblique, semicircular, spoon knives of various diameters, etc. Decorating the seat using the decoupage technique looks great.