STRUCTURAL FEATURES: This imposing chair -- also listed as barrack furniture or camp equipment in the catalogs of the London-based Army and Navy Stores -- is structured with an ample leg rest. Its sturdy frame, and rolled-out sling reclined back ensures alteration and adjustment of the seat. The joints are secured with metal (probably brass) fixtures. A similar mechanisation would then be adopted by furniture designers in the 2000s to create contemporary versions of the folding chair, devising a form and construction allowing the piece to be customised to use as a reclining lounge chair, a charpoy, as well as a bench.

STYLISTIC FEATURES: In this type of furniture design, form and function takes precedence over the aesthetic quality of the chair. The plank along the toprail has a simple scallop-shaped design with slight protrusions at the ends. The folding legs are slender and slightly rounded at the ends of the joints, with ‘H’-shaped stretchers running between the rear legs.