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Point 22. - Wise words from Ruskin’s ‘Inaugural Lecture on Art’ at Oxford, Hilary Term 1870

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Playtime, Jacques Tati

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Legend says that England’s King George I was on a country outing and sought refuge from the rain in a small cottage. He took a seat in a clean-cut chair. 

“This chair had a seat made from a single plank of wood; the legs were attached to the seat through holes drilled into it. The back of the chair consisted of spoke-like sticks that, like the legs, were stuck into holes in the seat, too. So enthralled was the king with this humble but comfortable piece of furniture that, on his return to Windsor Castle, he ordered several made after the same pattern. Hence, of course, the legendary derivation of both the chair and the name of the chair.”

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