(Blankets and lightweight chairs are allowed, but picnics are not permitted).
John and Marilyn Neuhart, designers and historians in Southern California, have devoted much of their careers to documenting the life and work of Mr. Neuhart's former employers: the mid-20th-century masters Charles and Ray Eames, known for contouring plywood and fiberglass sheets into lightweight chairs.
There was some evidence to indicate that ultralight wheelchairs are preferable to lightweight chairs in terms of ease of propulsion [ 28].
Lightweight chairs can easily be brought in when you have a large number of guests, without permanently taking up space.
And the rooms are filled with various iterations of the lightweight wooden chair that Ponti designed for Cassina, which culminated in the "Superleggera" (superlight) chair of 1957 -- you can pick it up with one finger.
Emeco's classic Navy lightweight aluminum chair, originally designed for submarines, is just as snappy in a child's version.
This was also the year of the first generation Ford Thunderbird, the prototype of Clarence Kelly Johnsonon's beautifully sinister Mach 2 Lockheed Starfighter and Charles and Ray Eames's beautifully balanced and lightweight DCM chair (an ideal prop for the design-conscious Strat player).
If you are going to be waiting in a long line for a flu shot, for example, during a season when supplies are short, bring along a lightweight folding chair and sit in it.
The most commercially successful version was the Hillestak, a lightweight timber stacking chair supplied in large quantities for schools, canteens and conference halls and on sale to modern-minded shoppers at Liberty's department store at 66 shillings each.
A favourite of museums, galleries and the studied homes of architects and designers, this lightweight, cantilevered birch chair began life in a cool, white sanatorium in southern Finland.
