Sling Chair Definition & Meaning

American

Examples

sling chair American

noun

1. any of several varieties of chairs having a seat and back formed from a single sheet of canvas, leather, or the like, hanging loosely in a frame.

Example Sentences

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You might find appliances, doors, lighting fixtures and cabinetry, but mostly thrifty home furnishings ranging from an oversized Pottery Barn mirror to a Le Corbusier leather sling chair.

From Seattle Times

This is the 1996 “Knotted Chair,” by the Dutch designer Marcel Wanders: a kind of sling chair in braided cord around a carbon fiber core using traditional macramé techniques, whose loops and knots proceed in a pattern of diamonds within ovals.

From New York Times

You’re seated comfortably in a sling chair, under an umbrella.

From Washington Post

You can never go wrong with a good old-fashioned sling chair, something that New Jersey-based lifestyle blogger Carly A. Riordan knows all too well.

From Seattle Times

With few exceptions — an Atelier de Troupe leather sling chair, a pair of Italian high-back rattan chairs designed in the 1970s — there are hardly any furniture pieces in the apartment that aren’t built-ins.

From New York Times

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