022 Hug Chair

If you die in the electric chair, as Roger Coleman is scheduled to do in Virginia on May 20, you will be literally burned to death internally -- and you will feel it, for many long seconds. Afterward, your body will likely be fouled by urine, feces and vomited blood. It will be too hot to touch for several minutes, and the smell of cooked flesh will permeate the execution chamber.
- Hendrik Hertzberg

019 Slab Chair

A passenger in a vehicle undergoing uniform motion will neither be pressed into his or her chair nor pulled to one side.
- Stephen Fleishman

018 1984 Chair

In a case of battery the amount of contact or force is unimportant, if it is made without permission. It may amount only to a touch on the shoulder, or the striking of a person's car or the chair in which a person is sitting.
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

1984 by George Orwell: A searchable online version

017 Vegas Chair

Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) painted La Chaise et la Pipe (Chair and Pipe, 1888) while living in Arles.
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

2007.03.24 Chair, originally uploaded by MaxChu.

016 Vertical Chair

Of course, Alexander the great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
- Nikolai Gogol

012 Simple Chair

The officiating bishop sat near this ALTAR in an armchair, or cathedra; this chair eventually gave its name to the cathedral, which, in contrast to a parish church, is one over which a bishop presides.
- Edward T. McClellan


Singapore Chinatown: Street Chair, originally uploaded by mrtruffle.

007 Risky Chair

Sit, sit back into the risky preposition
You might not remember when
but you will remember, how unsetling
Sit, sit down on the brisk composition
of shapes and countour of or the risky chair.

The prisoner is strapped in a chair, and sodium cyanide pellets are dropped into a bucket of acid. If the prisoner breathes deeply, death comes almost at once.

In 2002, 71 persons in 13 States were executed -- 33 in Texas; 7 in Oklahoma, 6 in Missouri; 4 each in Georgia and Virginia, 3 each in Florida, South Carolina, and Ohio; 2 each in Alabama, Mississippi, and North Carolina; and 1 each in Louisiana and California.
Of persons executed in 2002: 53 were white, 18 were black. –The Death Penalty

003 Negative Chair

"O.K., it was like this," he says, rubbing those big hands together and rocking slightly in his chair. "They told me, `Time to put in some work for your homies. Here's the gun. There's the car. Get up and go, boy.' " In other words, welcome to the big time, Jimmy. Time to prove your stuff by shooting some rivals. Try not to hit someone's mama or baby, but mainly just pull the trigger bang bang bang -- and don't lose the damned gun.
- Jon D. Hull

Smokers' Lounge, originally uploaded by Vanessa Berry.

002 Remedial Chair

America is a large, friendly dog in a very smallroom. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

-Arnold Joseph Toynbee

001 Virtual Chair

Virtual chair, existing only in the moment of established connections. Constructed on network of structural elements based on the strength of relationships. The comfort level paled by the flexibilities of each nodal relations.


If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson